Security Policy Management with
Professor Wool
Managing Business Application Connectivity
Managing Business Application Connectivity is a whiteboard-style series of lessons that examine the challenges of and provide technical tips for provisioning and decommissioning application connectivity across enterprise networks and data centers.
Lesson 1
In this lesson, Professor Wool examines the challenges of managing data center applications and their connectivity requirements. Professor Wool also offers tips for bridging the gap between application owners and network and security teams - to ensure faster, more secure deployment, maintenance and decommissioning of critical applications.
Examining the Need for Application-Centric Security Policy Management
Lesson 2
In this lesson, Professor Wool discusses how to look at and prioritize network security vulnerabilities in a new way - from the perspective of the business applications in your data center.
How to Prioritize Risk from the Business Perspective
Lesson 3
In this lesson, Professor Wool examines how to leverage firewall rules for discovering the connectivity requirements of data center applications.
Tips to Discover Business Application Connectivity Requirements
Lesson 4
In this lesson, Professor Wool examines the challenges of decommissioning business applications and offers recommendations for improving security without impacting network operations by removing firewall rules that are no longer in use.
Tips for Secure Decommissioning of Business Applications
Lesson 5
How to Automatically Identify Business Application Connectivity Needs from Network Traffic
Lesson 6
The Different Data Sources for Application Connectivity Discovery
Lesson 7
How to Aggregate Network Flows Into Application Flows
Lesson 8
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