cyber [confessionals]
Stories from
the Firewall Security Trenches
Network security is unforgiving. One misconfiguration can spiral into breaches, outages, and career-defining moments. We've been there. The failures that became lessons. Real confessions from the trenches.
Our Own Confessional
I get a phone call at 2AM—and it's 25 VPs all looking for someone to blame.
FireMon CEO and founder Jody Brazil is no stranger to things going very wrong when a crucial firewall detail is overlooked—it's the whole reason he started FireMon in the first place. Watch his own chilling story now.
I get a phone call at 2AM—and it's 25 VPs all looking for someone to blame.
FireMon CEO and founder Jody Brazil is no stranger to things going very wrong when a crucial firewall detail is overlooked—it's the whole reason he started FireMon in the first place. Watch his own chilling story now.
The Confessionals
Season One
New
EP 01
Visibility Zero
Logging re-enabled, crashed critical PIX firewall, grounded 1,000 planes.
New
EP 02
Clouded Judgment
A Configuration Error Exposes a Database Publicly
EP 03
All Access Pass
Over-Permissioned Rule Lets It All Through the Door
New
EP 04
One Rule to Ruin them All
One Removed Firewall Rule Blocks Transactions
Future Confessionals
Misconfigurations with Massive Consequences
Human Error During Firewall Changes
Compliance and Regulatory Fallout
Lack of Visibility, Logging, and Auditing
Overly Permissive Rules That Stayed Too Long
Vendor and Process Complexity
More Confessionals are on the Way
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