ControlMonkey is expanding Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery to the security stack, making critical configurations across CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks recoverable. Support for additional security platforms is coming soon.
Security teams are responsible for protecting the business and ensuring it can recover from cyber incidents. However, the traditional security tools they depend on have their own recovery gap.
Critical security policies, rules, configurations, integrations, and settings change constantly. They can be modified through consoles, AI agents, APIs, and automation scripts. When these configurations are deleted, corrupted, or maliciously altered, an organization’s security posture can be immediately impacted, with no clear or predictable way to roll back the change.
Who Backs Up the Security Stack?
Now with ControlMonkey, organizations can continuously discover and snapshot configurations across supported security platforms, maintain versioned recovery points, understand what changed over time and restore previous known-good configurations when incidents occur.
CISOs spend enormous effort making sure the organization has a recovery strategy, but the security tools responsible for protecting the business are often missing from that strategy, If a critical security policy or platform configuration is changed or lost, teams should not have to rebuild it manually under pressure. Security configuration needs to be recoverable too.
Traditional backup focuses primarily on data and workloads. ControlMonkey addresses the configuration layer that determines whether applications can be accessed, routed, monitored and secured.
A New Recovery Layer for the Security Stack
ControlMonkey enables security and infrastructure teams to:
- Back up critical security configurations across CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks
- Maintain versioned configuration snapshots to create known-good recovery points
- Understand what changed before and during a security incident
- Recover critical configurations without relying on manual rebuilds, scripts or tribal knowledge
- Identify cyber resilience gaps across security platforms and the broader cloud environment
Support for additional security platforms will further expand ControlMonkey’s coverage of the systems organizations depend on to protect and operate modern cloud environments.
With this expansion, ControlMonkey extends disaster recovery to the security layer, making critical security configurations recoverable alongside identity, networking, observability and cloud infrastructure.
By protecting this configuration layer, organizations can complement traditional data recovery with the security controls, policies and settings required to keep the business protected and operating
How Is This Different from Native Backup?
Native backup capabilities can help protect individual security platforms, but they remain limited to that vendor’s environment, with different coverage and retention policies. ControlMonkey provides a centralized recovery layer across multiple security tools, with versioned snapshots over time, change visibility, and recovery from one place.
How Security Configuration Backup and Recovery Works
ControlMonkey simplifies the recovery process into four stages:
1. Connect
Connect supported security platforms, including CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks, to ControlMonkey.
2. Discover
ControlMonkey discovers supported security configurations, policies, rules and settings across the connected platforms.
3. Continuously Back Up
ControlMonkey captures versioned configuration snapshots, creating a historical record of changes and known-good recovery points.
4. Recover
When a configuration is deleted, corrupted or maliciously changed, teams can restore a previous known-good version instead of rebuilding it manually under pressure.
Make Your Security Stack Recoverable
Security tools protect the business. Their configurations need protection too.
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