Posted on Monday, December 15th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Firewall management tools aid configuration, compliance
SearchSecurity.com
Firewall management becomes critical in today’s regulatory climate, in which you have to protect sensitive customer and financial data and prove it to auditors’ satisfaction. In particular, PCI requires network segmentation to isolate back-end databases containing credit card information. Even in the absence of specific regulatory requirements, segmentation makes sense as a best practice to protect databases containing, for example, patient information for HIPAA compliance.
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