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Bad Firewall Requests Part 6: Tribal Knowledge Is Poisoning Your Firewall Ruleset
When there’s no good reference for how to write a firewall request, people copy old tickets. The problem is those old tickets were wrong too.
Bad Firewall Requests Part 5: How Deadline Pressure Turns Firewall Rules Into Technical Debt
When vague requests meet tight timelines, firewall teams approve broader rules than they should. Those rules never get tightened. Here’s how the cycle works and how to break it.
Bad Firewall Requests Part 4: Nobody Reads the Docs (and Your Firewall Pays the Price)
Vendor docs list ports for every feature the product offers. Teams that don’t understand which ones they actually need just request all of them. The result is an ever-growing attack surface built on uncertainty.
Bad Firewall Requests Part 3: Your Firewall Request Form Is Setting People Up to Fail
If your firewall request form was designed by security people for security people, it might be the reason your tickets keep coming back incomplete.
Bad Firewall Requests Part 2: The Translation Gap - Why App Teams and Firewall Teams Speak Different Languages
Application developers think in services. Firewall engineers think in IPs and ports. That gap is the single biggest reason firewall requests come in broken.
Bad Firewall Requests Part 1: The Hidden Cost of Poorly Written Firewall Requests
Every bad firewall request triggers a quiet chain reaction of wasted hours, delayed projects, and security compromises nobody talks about. This is the overview of a six-part series digging into why it happens and what to do about it.