Strengthening Cybersecurity Governance: The Impact of Firewalls on Risk Management
Venkataswamy Naidu Gangineni, Sriram Pabbineedi, Mitra Penmetsa, Jayakeshav Reddy Bhumireddy, Rajiv Chalasani, Mukund Sai Vikram Tyagadurgam · International Journal of AI BigData Computational and Management Studies · 2021
In a fast-digitizing environment, the escalation of cyber threats along with increased sophistication and frequency requires strong cybersecurity governance frameworks that efficiently integrate risk and compliance management. The role of firewalls, traditional and NG, in enhancing cybersecurity governance and their ability to reduce organizational risk is explored in this paper. Subsequently, it examines the technological evolution of firewalls and their support of strategic governance principles to safeguard network infrastructures, compliance, and enterprise resiliency. Firewalls are not just seen as technical barriers are the key parts of proactive risk management and provide functionalities like identity-based access control, deep packet examination, and Real-time threat identification. The combination of firewall technologies with worldwide established standards and frameworks, as the NIST Framework for Cybersecurity and ISO/IEC 27001, is examined for the purpose of evaluating their ability to satisfy compliance and governance requirements. More in the same vein, the research highlights the emerging need for firewall adoption that can adapt to modern cybersecurity challenges, especially in cloud and container-based contexts