Organizations have difficulty changing security controls after implementation due to the time and effort required. Automation and orchestration solutions can help reduce human errors by automating security configurations. While data center segmentation can enhance security, few organizations actually implement effective segmentation due to the lack of automation and visibility across applications.

1. It is Hard to Change Security Controls After the Fact
Organizations Need Another Solution
Implementing Security Controls is Time-consuming
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Network Security is Prone to Human Error
69%
74%
43%57%
75%
68%
35%
feel that
removing
expired
ACLs or firewall rules is
too time consuming
47%
77%
38%
59%
72% 61%
Data Center
Security Challenges
More Than a Technology Issue -
It’s a Human Problem
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Data Center Segmentation Can Help, but Few are Doing It
have little to no security visibility
into traffic flowing from one
application to another
99% want to use automation and
orchestration to accelerate
application deployment
have little to no
ability to do so
have little ability to
provision security and
services based on policy
say criminals
were able to
easily move
laterally across their data
center
admit that
better
segmentation
wouldhelpsolvethisproblem
of organiza-
tions actually
segment their
data centers
report they
have no
method for
removing expired ACLs or
firewall rules
of security
teams
understand
what applications or services
existing ACLs refer to
of organizations
had one or more
data center service
compromised in
the past 2 years report a security
vulnerability, or
performance issue,
and service
interruption was tied
toa configuration
error in the last year
of organizations
say it takes up to 4
hours to create a
firewall rule for
every new network
application
say it takes days or
weeks to update
security devices
This infographic is based on 2015 research conducted by ESG on behalf of Cisco Systems Inc.
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87%reported
multiple
outages due to
configuration errors
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