Why 60% Of Firewalls Fail High-Severity Checks And How NSPM Fixes It
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Firewall audit failures are not edge cases anymore. They are the norm.
Across industries, nearly 60% of firewalls fail at least one high-severity check during audits and internal assessments. These are not cosmetic findings. They represent real exposure: overly permissive rules, unused objects, broken segmentation intent, and policy drift that no one planned.
- If you are a CISO, this is a board-level risk conversation.
- If you are a network or security engineer, it is the daily grind you are already living.
The good news is this problem is fixable. But not with spreadsheets, point-in-time audits, or yet another dashboard that no one trusts.
It requires continuous network security validation through Network Security Policy Management, or NSPM.