Case Study: Office 365 automates firewall access management with BackBox Software

Automating Firewall Management - Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Access

Office 365 needed a way to keep firewall access policies accurate for Microsoft cloud services while managing a constantly changing set of IPs, URLs, and FQDNs. The challenge was especially difficult because many of these services required special access rules, and manually creating and maintaining the needed network objects in firewall management was time-consuming and error-prone.

BackBox Software solved this by using its task automation and XML parsing capabilities to import Microsoft’s service lists and automatically build the required firewall objects and groups in a granular way. With BackBox Software, what would take many hours or days to create and maintain manually can now be completed in about 6–10 minutes, reducing human error and keeping Office 365 access requirements current with minimal administrator effort.

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