PJ Networks Firewalls are Ready for Audits – Compliance & Reporting You Can Depend On

When you work in regulated industries, audit readiness isn’t just something that’s “nice-to-have.” It’s a necessity. A compliance firewall is essential to help you log, track, report on and audit security events to satisfy stringent regulatory requirements. That’s where PJ Networks comes in to make everything easy.

Let me take you through how PJ Networks helps you with compliance in 4 main areas:

• Compliance Mapping
• Automated Reports
• Log Retention
• Audit Assistance

Ready? Let’s dive in.

Compliance Mapping

The first is compliance mapping. If you’ve ever been through an audit, you understand how vexing it is to relate your security measures to specific regulations. PJ Networks makes this easy.

Here’s what you get:

• Complete adherence with widely-recommended best-practices (such as HIPAA)
• Integrated overarching solutions to trifling legal compliance issues, such as PCI DSS, GDPR, and many more
• Preconfigured security policies that correlate firewall rules with compliance mandates
• Rapid discovery of holes in your firewall config (you only need to be good to deploy firewall rules with CIF and not even that since CIF will help you to be good)
• Surfacing of the Troy hidden in your network (ata.gov)

Think of it as a cheat sheet that can make it easy for you to see just where your firewall stands in relation to what is needed. You don’t have to look up the references for each of these controls – PJ Networks do the work for you!

This can save you hours in preparing for compliance checks and ensures you’re not forgetting anything important. You can even tailor mappings to suit your individual business requirements.

Automated Reports

Manual reporting? Forget it. That’s a time suck and likely to introduce errors. PJ Networks also provides automated compliance reporting — a must-have for today’s overextended security teams.

What does this mean for you?

• Automatically generated reports on schedule without doing anything
• Auditor-friendly documentation and concrete proof of firewall activities
• Various report formats to meet different regulatory requirements

Here is how this helps you get ahead:

• Avoid deadlines anxiety: reports are shipped automatically, you won’t forget this one!
• Establish repeatable, consistent reporting processes to increase confidence in the audit
• More time collaborating on data, less time formatting it

And you can tailor key report parameters to ensure they center on the metrics most important to your business. This flexibility leads to better decision-making and allows your compliance program to remain agile.

Log Retention

Log the details in regulated industries is essential. PJ Networks gets this and has strong log retention specifically for compliance purposes.

Read on for log features that help you prepare for an audit:

• Safe storage that protects logs from manipulation or unauthorized access
• Retention policies which are in adherence to the specific regulatory periods
• Generate and export easily to inspect or forensics

Why does it matter?

Logs are how you establish that things are done the way you say they are when you get audited. Being able to demonstrate your compliance or determine if something suspicious has happened fast is why having your log files in good shape and secure is so critical.

PJ Networks also assists you by compressing and archiving logs in an orderly fashion, which means we save your space without sacrificing access or accuracy. You have peace of mind that your firewall data will be there when you need to rely upon it.

Audit Assistance

And, of course, an audit can be a stressful process. Good firewall systems do their bit by enabling you to prepare and react quickly.

PJ Networks is known for their alert support services and built-in audit support capabilities, including;

• Audit Ready Dashboards: View compliance status in real time across your organizations with ready to use dashboards
• Prebuilt checklists and evidence packs to hand to auditors
• Alert for non-compliance items to correct issues before they become big

With these tools:

• You do not just sit there and wait for the audit, you actively manage your compliance risks
• You show how firewall related things work in a transparent and controlled environment
• Auditors use a lot less time to find the information they’re looking for, which in turn leads to less tedious review processes

This kind of proactive work reduces a lot of the uncertainty when you go into an audit, and gives you a lot more confidence. You’re not just compliant. You’re audit-ready.

At the end of the day, if you’re in charge of cybersecurity in regulated industries, you might find that an audit-ready compliance firewall like PJ Networks can make all the difference. It makes compliance mapping easy, provides automatic reports, secure log storage, and real-time audit support.

This is the sort of support that frees you up from the task of finding data‰Ű¶ so that you can spend more time focusing on making the world a safer place! In other words, PJ Networks provides peace of mind — so audits don’t distract from your business operations.

And remember, audit readiness should be a recurring event, not a one-time deal. It’s a process, and your firewall should be a companion in the journey, not a barrier.

When you need to simplify compliance and smoothly manage regulatory requirements, you owe it to yourself to see what PJ Networks can do for you.

Stay safe and audit-ready out there.

It’s all about smart tools and strong practices when it comes to audit readiness, compliance firewall, and regulated industries. And PJ Networks makes it easy to manage it all. Put the power of compliance in your cybersecurity program.