Gidi Cohen CEO Skybox Security

Skybox Security, leading provider of proactive security risk management solutions, has announced Skybox Firewall Assurance now provides continuous monitoring of all major vendors’ firewalls, enabling immediate identification and response to risky changes. Firewall Assurance automatically sends a real-time alert of any unauthorized configuration and rule changes to the firewall devices, including who made the change, on which device, and what change was made.

Skybox is the only solution that combines continuous monitoring of firewall changes with continuous monitoring of network vulnerabilities, providing Skybox customers with best-in-class ability to immediately determine if a firewall change exposes a vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker or malware. This level of continuously updated information about both network devices and network vulnerabilities is essential to identify attack vectors, including advanced threats that take advantage of multiple security weaknesses. According to the Verizon 2012 Breach Investigation Report, out of the 855 incidents, 61 percent featured a combination of hacking techniques and malware.

“A large company may have hundreds of firewall changes per day. It’s important to be able to decide quickly which changes create risk so you can act fast,” said Gidi Cohen, CEO and founder at Skybox Security. “Others claim to have this functionality but don’t have up-to-date vulnerability data, or the ability to confirm a new attack vector in seconds. Skybox integrates these pieces so a busy security team knows where and how to spend their time to secure the network and reduce the attack surface.”

Continuous monitoring of network security devices augments Skybox’s proactive security management solution. Hundreds of enterprises and government agencies worldwide avoid implementing risky changes with Skybox’s solutions proactive change management.

“Skybox’s ‘what-if’ modeling enables administrators to avoid implementing risky changes, even when they are authorized, and provides an immediate alert only when unauthorized changes occur, so administrators aren’t inundated with useless alerts,” said Cohen.

Skybox Security, Inc. is the leader in proactive security risk management solutions, providing automated, non-intrusive tools that detect, prioritize, and drive remediation of critical risks such as exposed vulnerabilities and firewall configuration errors.

Skybox solutions prevent potential cyber attacks and data breaches by providing IT decision makers with continuous network visibility and sophisticated predictive analytics. Organizations in Financial Services, Government, Energy, Defense, Retail, and Telecommunications rely on Skybox Security solutions daily to reduce risk exposure, implement secure change management processes, and achieve continuous compliance.