SmartWorkflow Change Management Software Blade

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SmartWorkflowChange Management Software Blade

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Agenda

Changing Business Needs Why Change Management? Introducing SmartWorkflow Summary

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Gateways

Risk to Security Risk to Compliance Risk to Performance Risk to Network Uptime

Changing Business Needs

IT Administrators

MultiplePolicy Changes

MultiplePolicy Changes

Business Needs

ConstantStream ofChange Requests

Multiple and frequent changes to security policies often lead to mis-configurations and security risks

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VISIBILITY AND CONTROL

Why Change Management?

COMPLIANCE

MITIGATE RISKS

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Introducing SmartWorkflow Software Blade

Automated Policy Change Management

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SmartWorkflow Life Cycle

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Introducing SmartWorkflow

Single Management Console

Improves security and efficiency while reducing costs

Visual change tracking Reduces risk of security policy configuration errors

Flexible authorization Conforms to established approval processes

Comprehensive audit and reporting

Enhances compliance by tracking evolution of policy changes

Automated Policy Change Management

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Edit Policies

Changes Highlighted in SmartDashboard Make and visualize changes in SmartDashboard

Policy changes are made directly in the console and highlighted for better tracking

NewObject

ChangeHighlighted

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Easy review of changes with side by side difference report

Review Changes

Policy BEFORE change Policy AFTER Change

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Approve Changes

Review and Approve ChangesChanges Highlighted in SmartDashboardHighlighted changes promote easy approval

process and reduce errors

APPROVED!

AddedObject

ChangedPolicy

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Flexible Authorization

Configuration Options:

Role-based approval

Self Approval

Emergency Bypass

Conforms to an organization’s existing approval process

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Audit Trails

Who?

Audit Trail

What? When? How? Why?

Review and Approve ChangesChanges Highlighted in SmartDashboardTracks evolution of policy changes and all necessary details for regulatory compliance

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SmartWorkflow Summary

Single Console Integration

Visual change tracking

Flexible authorization

Audit trails

Automated Policy Change Management