I’ll be presenting at CiscoLive! in Vegas this month – my talk (co-presented with Cisco) is on Tuesday morning, June 29th. I’ve included the abstract below. Do let us know if you’ll be able to attend – this should be a lot of fun.
Title: Automating Network Security Assessment
Abstract:
This presentation will describe how Cisco’s Audit team automates security assessments for over 30,000 devices. The audit team has applied automation to scale up their capabilities, reduce manual labor spent on firewall and device configuration review, and dramatically increase speed and accuracy when reviewing one of the largest and most complex network environments in the world. The presentation shows that it is possible to visualize a complete global environment, understand relationships and dependencies, and uncover major problems and compliance issues before they are uncovered or exploited by others. Powerful results from new technology for identifying zones, breaking a global environment into manageable pieces, and for automated configuration analysis will be shown.