Agile and compliant firewall ACL configuration management for DevOps - Ildefonso Montero - JOTB17
Networking and security management, based on firewall policy configuration operation, has historically been very difficult because of the high complexity of networks, and the diversity of the different firewall vendors. Thus, while DevOps are performing agile server configuration management, the firewall rules that define the application connectivity are still managed in the old-school way, introducing a bottleneck into the software and infrastructure delivery pipeline.
In this talk, we'll show how to abstract, describe and attach the application connectivity description (policies) to the infrastructure specification as high-level intents into a multi-vendor and multi-technology network (in-premise, cloud-based, PaaS-based, etc.) ensuring continuous compliance and that all potential problems are detected before the policies are provisioned into the infrastructure.