FireMon User Summit | New York City
Tuesday July 28th, 2026 | 12:00 PM ET
FireMon | The control plane for network security policy
Join practitioners and network security architects at the FireMon User Summit on Tuesday, July 28th at The Ned NoMad in New York to learn how to take control, simplify operations, and ensure firewall and Zero Trust policies work as intended—without guesswork.
This customer led event delivers actionable insights you can apply immediately. No marketing pitches, just real-world problem-solving from peers and network security experts. You’ll leave with strategies to:
Tackle Real-World Challenges
- Control firewall rule sprawl at scale, without breaking production.
- Keep policy consistent across on-prem, cloud, and segmentation
- Speed up policy changes without increasing risk
- Know what access exists, and what to fix first
- Maintain compliance without relying on audits
- Live environments and real-word examples direct from FireMon customers
- Real operator workflows, step by step implementations
- Customer led-sessions with measurable outcomes
- Technical Product Roadmaps and expert interactions
- Integration deep dives, including Illumio, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco and ITSMs
You'll also earn CPE credits for your participation and take your professional development further.
The full agenda and speakers will be announced soon. Seats are limited. Register now to secure your spot.
The full agenda and speakers will be announced soon. Seats are limited. Register now to secure your spot.
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Agenda
Here’s a look at what’s planned so far for FireMon User Summit 2026. Additional speakers and sessions may be added.
Registration and Lunch Opens | 12:00 PM
Session 1 | 1:00 PM-1:35 PM
Policy Is the Control Plane: Defining the Future of Network Security
Speaker: Jody Brazil, CEO, FireMon
Network security has never been more powerful, or more complex. As enterprises expand across cloud, hybrid, and Zero Trust architectures, security operations have become increasingly distributed. Application teams are making infrastructure decisions, security teams are enforcing policy across more environments than ever, and AI is accelerating the pace of change.
In this opening remarks, FireMon CEO Jody Brazil explores the current state of policy management through insights gathered across global enterprise environments and examines where network security is headed next. As organizations work to move faster without sacrificing control, traditional approaches are reaching their limits. The future requires policy management that is context-aware, adaptive, and capable of operating at machine speed.
What attendees will learn:
In this opening remarks, FireMon CEO Jody Brazil explores the current state of policy management through insights gathered across global enterprise environments and examines where network security is headed next. As organizations work to move faster without sacrificing control, traditional approaches are reaching their limits. The future requires policy management that is context-aware, adaptive, and capable of operating at machine speed.
What attendees will learn:
- Current state of network security
- The changing landscape affecting network security
- The future of policy management as the control plane for enterprise network security
Session 2 | 1:35 PM -1:55 PM
From Visibility to Control: Policy Management Across Global Enterprises
Speaker: Bhupendra Sonney, Cyber Security Architecture & Design Professional, BT
As organizations expand across on-premises and cloud environments, managing security policy at scale becomes increasingly complex.
In this session, Bhupendra Soni shares lessons learned from helping multiple global enterprises modernize their approach to network security policy management. Drawing on real-world deployment experience across large, complex environments, he will discuss how organizations evolved from basic visibility and rule analysis to a more mature approach focused on policy governance, operational efficiency, and automation.
Through practical examples, attendees will learn how security teams can reduce complexity, improve decision making, and build a foundation for long-term policy management success.
Attendees will learn:
Session 3 | 1:55 PM-2:20 PM
Speaker: Bhupendra Sonney, Cyber Security Architecture & Design Professional, BT
As organizations expand across on-premises and cloud environments, managing security policy at scale becomes increasingly complex.
In this session, Bhupendra Soni shares lessons learned from helping multiple global enterprises modernize their approach to network security policy management. Drawing on real-world deployment experience across large, complex environments, he will discuss how organizations evolved from basic visibility and rule analysis to a more mature approach focused on policy governance, operational efficiency, and automation.
Through practical examples, attendees will learn how security teams can reduce complexity, improve decision making, and build a foundation for long-term policy management success.
Attendees will learn:
- Common challenges organizations face as network and cloud environments grow
- How leading enterprises improve visibility into policy usage and risk
- Lessons learned from managing policy across multi-vendor environments
- Practical steps for progressing from visibility to governance and automation
- How organizations can maintain control as operational complexity increases
Session 3 | 1:55 PM-2:20 PM
From Chaos to Control: 3 FireMon Plays Every Customer Should Run
Speaker: Rob Rodriguez, Senior Director, Global Field Engineering, FireMon
The biggest challenge in policy management is not a lack of data. It is knowing which questions to ask, which risks to act on, and how to keep access from quietly becoming long-term exposure.
The biggest challenge in policy management is not a lack of data. It is knowing which questions to ask, which risks to act on, and how to keep access from quietly becoming long-term exposure.
In this interactive session, Rob Rodriguez will share three practical FireMon plays every customer should be running to improve policy governance, reduce operational complexity, and make better risk decisions. The session will cover how to use Insights, SiQL, and AI to ask better questions of the environment, how to clean up policies with confidence, and how to recertify access before outdated rules become forgotten risk.
Through practical walkthroughs, real-world examples, and audience-driven discussion, attendees will see how FireMon can help turn policy data into action across security, network, and operations teams.
Attendees will learn:
- How to use Insights, SiQL, and AI to answer the questions that matter most
- Proven methods for identifying and reducing unused, redundant, and risky access
- Why rule recertification is essential for long-term policy hygiene and audit readiness
- How to make every rule prove it still has a valid business reason
- Practical ways to improve policy governance, reduce complexity, and strengthen operational control
Session 4 | 2:20 PM -2:35 PM
Me Anything (AMA): FireMon Technical Experts Q&A
Speakers: FireMon Technical Leadership Team
Me Anything (AMA): FireMon Technical Experts Q&A
Speakers: FireMon Technical Leadership Team
Bring your toughest questions! Join FireMon's technical experts for an open AMA covering product capabilities, best practices, policy management challenges, AI, automation, and what's coming next. This is your opportunity to get direct answers from the team behind the technology.
Break: 2:35-3:00 pm
Session 5 | 3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Session 5 | 3:00 PM-3:30 PM
From Manual Reviews to Continuous Policy Governance Across a Global Network
Speakers: Ted Sanfilippo, Sutherland
In this customer-led session, Ted Sanfilippo will share how Sutherland approached the transition from manual policy review, analysis, and reporting to a more centralized and continuous model for policy governance. He will discuss how the team reviews implemented firewall rules, monitors security changes, identifies policy gaps, standardizes rulesets and objects, analyzes real traffic flow, and supports compliance reporting for frameworks such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST, and other regulatory requirements.
What attendees will learn:
In this customer-led session, Ted Sanfilippo will share how Sutherland approached the transition from manual policy review, analysis, and reporting to a more centralized and continuous model for policy governance. He will discuss how the team reviews implemented firewall rules, monitors security changes, identifies policy gaps, standardizes rulesets and objects, analyzes real traffic flow, and supports compliance reporting for frameworks such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST, and other regulatory requirements.
What attendees will learn:
- How Sutherland approached security policy governance across firewalls, routers, and core switches
- What operational challenges existed before centralizing policy review and reporting
- How continuous rule review helps identify policy gaps, unused access, and configuration issues
- How traffic flow analysis helps determine which ports are actually in use for specific rules
- How audit-ready reporting supports compliance teams and reduces manual assessment work
Session 6 | 3:30 PM-3:50 PM
Policy Control Plane in Action for Microsegmentation: FireMon + Illumio
Session 7 | 3:50 PM-4:35 PM
Speakers: Dan Rheault, FireMon, Director of Product Management + Ron Isaacson, Illumio, Field CTO
As hybrid environments evolve, maintaining consistent policy control across firewalls and workload segmentation becomes increasingly complex.
In this "Show me don't Tell Me" live session, you will see how Illumio's workload-level microsegmentation and FireMon's comprehensive security policy governance work together in a unified view. The combined solution helps teams validate access, identify policy inconsistencies, and reduce exposure across hybrid environments.
What attendees will learn:
As hybrid environments evolve, maintaining consistent policy control across firewalls and workload segmentation becomes increasingly complex.
In this "Show me don't Tell Me" live session, you will see how Illumio's workload-level microsegmentation and FireMon's comprehensive security policy governance work together in a unified view. The combined solution helps teams validate access, identify policy inconsistencies, and reduce exposure across hybrid environments.
What attendees will learn:
- How firewall policy and microsegmentation interact in a real hybrid environment
- Where inconsistencies between enforcement points can create exposure and operational risk
- How firewall and Illumio segmentation policies are brought together and evaluated through FireMon
- How teams can identify and address policy issues before they create production impact
- What it takes to maintain consistent policy control across on-premises, cloud, and workload segmentation over time
Rapid Fire: FireMon innovations and Roadmap
Speaker: Dan Rheault, FireMon, Director of Product Management
Security teams don’t have a control problem, they have a consistency problem. As firewalls, cloud-native controls, and Zero Trust segmentation evolve independently, maintaining consistent policy enforcement across them has become the real challenge -- leading to drift, gaps, and blind spots.
In this session, we’ll show how FireMon is evolving from network security policy management into a control plane for hybrid access governance. You’ll see how policy can be normalized and validated across environments, how AI is applied to improve real policy decisions, and how teams can maintain consistent access control as architectures become more distributed.
What attendees will learn
4:35 PM Closing Remarks
Security teams don’t have a control problem, they have a consistency problem. As firewalls, cloud-native controls, and Zero Trust segmentation evolve independently, maintaining consistent policy enforcement across them has become the real challenge -- leading to drift, gaps, and blind spots.
In this session, we’ll show how FireMon is evolving from network security policy management into a control plane for hybrid access governance. You’ll see how policy can be normalized and validated across environments, how AI is applied to improve real policy decisions, and how teams can maintain consistent access control as architectures become more distributed.
What attendees will learn
- How to maintain consistent policy enforcement across firewalls, cloud, and Zero Trust controls
- What policy normalization looks like in real environments
- How to ensure policy behaves as intended across different control types
- Where AI improves policy decisions in practice -- and where it doesn’t
- What’s coming next to govern access across increasingly distributed environments
4:35 PM Closing Remarks
4:45 PM Post-Event Networking
Continue the conversation with fellow attendees over drinks and networking,.
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