Tufin Technologies recently published the results [PDF file] of a firewall management survey, which found that 10 percent of IT professionals admitted that they or a colleague had cheated to get an audit passed. Fully 30 percent of respondents only audit their firewalls once every five years, and 7 percent never do so.

"Companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on selecting and implementing firewalls, yet much less attention and resources are invested in making sure the firewalls are optimized at all times for potential security risks and compliance breaches," says company chief security architect Michael Hamelin.

Click here [PDF file] to access the survey results.