The economics of firewall audit.
Your compliance line item is hiding five incentive distortions. Once you see them, they cannot be unseen — and they have a dollar value.
The configurer is not the auditor.
Your integrator bills to close tickets. Your auditor bills to find problems. When both roles are held by the same party, the economics guarantee bad outcomes.
Annual audits cover 0.27% of the year.
365 days of exposure vs. 1 day of inspection. Continuous attestation is not a luxury — it's the only model that matches the threat timeline.
FortiManager is free. A failed audit costs $150K.
Bundled tools are free because they're operational — not audit-grade. QSA finding → 90 days to remediate → out-of-pocket assessment → reputational damage.
The vendor knows your vulnerabilities before you do.
PSIRT advisories are published on the vendor's schedule. Weaponization happens faster than remediation. Redoubt closes the window.
No industry audits its own claims.
Financial services, healthcare, nuclear, aviation — every regulated industry enforces separation of duties by law. Network security is the anomaly. Redoubt fixes that by design.