About this episode

Drew discusses a project with Joao Soares about automating firewall rule changes in the energy sector.

Drew talks with Joao Soares, Lead IT Security Consultant, about a project Joao undertook to automate firewall rule changes. Firewall changes can be fraught in any environment, but Joao also had to contend with working in the highly-regulated energy sector. They walk through how the project went from proof-of-concept to being widely used in production, ... Read more »

People in this episode

Host: Drew

Guest: Joao Soares

Topics covered

• firewall automation
• IT security
• energy sector
• project management
• regulatory compliance

Keywords

• firewall
• automation
• IT security
• energy sector
• regulations
• project management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IT Security Consultant, energy sector

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