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Moving Beyond Fragmented Visibility: Operationalizing Network Security Policy at Scale

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21 April 2026 11:30 am - 1:30 pm EST
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Moving Beyond Fragmented Visibility: Operationalizing Network Security Policy at Scale

Enterprise networks are becoming increasingly complex, with security policy spread across firewalls, cloud environments, and segmentation platforms. As infrastructure expands across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, many organizations lack a consistent way to control and validate how policy is applied—leading to increased risk exposure and making it harder to demonstrate compliance. How are security leaders moving beyond fragmented visibility and manual processes toward a more operational approach to policy management?

Leading organizations are taking a more controlled and unified approach to policy management—improving visibility across environments, validating changes before deployment, and ensuring policy remains consistently aligned with security intent and compliance requirements. This shift enables teams to reduce risk, eliminate inconsistencies, and manage policy with greater confidence at scale.

Join peers and industry experts to discuss how organizations are operationalizing network security policy, reducing risk from misconfigurations, and enabling faster, more secure change across complex environments.

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Speakers

Tim Woods

Vice President, Technology Alliances

About FireMon

FireMon is the founder of Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) and serves as the control plane for security policy across modern enterprise networks. FireMon provides an authoritative layer above enforcement technologies, continuously validating that deployed rules, segmentation, and access controls operate as designed across firewalls, cloud networks, and microsegmentation platforms. The platform combines firewall policy management, a Zero Trust control plane, AI-powered policy control, and risk-aware policy change management to detect drift, quantify exposure, and drive prioritized corrective action. Global 2000 organizations rely on FireMon to reduce risk, maintain continuous compliance, and ensure security policy remains aligned as environments evolve.

Discussion Topics

Moving from fragmented visibility to true policy control across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Balancing speed and risk by validating policy changes before they impact operations or compliance

Aligning network security policy with Zero Trust strategies while improving operational efficiency

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