The manual tasks required to create, manage, and update firewall policies are a time-consuming and often lead to misconfigurations, which can open the door to cyberattacks. By automating firewall management processes, network security teams can more easily implement and manage mature network segmentation strategies, deploy new firewalls faster, identify and correct overly permissive firewall rulesets, benefit from real-time violation alerting, and limit network traffic based on least-privilege cybersecurity principles.