Case Study: Discovery Health achieves instant firewall audits and streamlined change management with AlgoSec

Discovery Streamlines Firewall Audits and Simplifies the change Workflow

Discovery SA is a global financial services company headquartered in Johannesburg that operates in highly regulated healthcare and insurance markets. Rapid growth left its four-person IT security team managing many firewalls with a legacy in-house system that offered little visibility into change requests; audits and rule reviews ballooned in time and complexity, taking up to three weeks per firewall.

Discovery deployed the AlgoSec Security Management Solution integrated with its Request Tracker system to automate firewall operations, change control and risk analysis. The result: instant, auditable compliance reports and drastically faster audit preparation, clear visibility into change workflows, removal of tens of thousands of unused rules on individual devices (extending hardware life and delaying upgrades), and much faster, safer responses to business change requests.

Discovery Health

Marc Silver

Security Manager