Use case 01 of 03 day one read-only

Know what your network is actually doing.

Before anyone signs off that the estate is segmented. Every rule and every flow comes back classified, with a reason attached rather than a hit count.

69%

of firewall rules are unused FireMon Insights 2.0 · 9.2m policy checks
across hybrid networks · Jun 2026

45%

have no owner or documentation Same dataset · 17% redundant or shadowed outright

58%

of firewalls fail a high-severity compliance check Same dataset · 48% fail at critical severity

What we move: those three stop being estimates. Measured on your estate, in the first read-only pass — no change window, no risk committee. Industry baselines shown, not our results.

0100 the output

Every rule, classified — with the reason.

Used, and justified

The flow exists, it maps to a declared intent, and the rule that permits it is the narrowest one that would. Nothing to do.

Used, never declared

Real traffic nobody wrote down. Each one becomes a question with an owner attached, not a line in a diff.

Declared, never used

The rule that outlived its reason. Proposed for retirement only after it has held its full observation window — never on a hit count alone.

A hit counter tells you a rule fired. It never tells you whether it should have.

Works on estates with zero Kubernetes — configuration exports and flow records are enough for the first pass.

0200 the mechanism

Three sources. One three-way compare.

Declared intent, the configuration actually in force, and the traffic actually observed — held against each other as a set operation rather than an interpretation. That is the whole of the first two weeks.

The stage-one audit flow: declared intent from tickets and CMDB, configuration read from routers, firewalls and clusters, and observed traffic from flow records all feed a three-way compare, which emits a classified gap list.

Read-only throughout. Nothing is written to the network during the audit.

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See it against your own kit.

30–60 minutes. Read-only. We compare your declared intent to what is actually running, and hand back the gap list.

Savings are computed from your own estate in the first two read-only weeks — never from our slides.

Book 30 minutes — read-only