# ‘State of the Firewall’ Report: Automation Key to Preventing Costly Misconfigurations

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/state-of-the-firewall-report-automation-key-to-preventing-costly-misconfigurations/
- Published: 2019-11-14T09:45:56-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Firewall Maintenance Needs Automation to Prevent Misconfiguration Now, more than ever, it is important to automate firewall processes to prevent misconfigurations and data breaches. Gartner has warned that “50% of enterprises will unknowingly and mistakenly have exposed some IaaS storage services, network segments, applications or APIs directly to the public internet, up from 25% at YE18.” This is a human problem, not a firewall problem. Gartner also posits that “99% of firewall breaches will be caused by misconfigurations, not firewall flaws.” […] Click here to view original web page at www.securityweek.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio