For IT staff in global enterprises, adding a new employee is far more involved than finding a desk and a chair for the new hire. Typically, it means huddling over spreadsheets, muttering to themselves as they figure out what changes to make to access rights and policies while taking into account a labyrinthine array of legal, departmental and compliance rules.Multiply that scene by thousands of users, spread over different countries, and you have the massive, frequently chaotic process that takes place practically every week in major companies.In response, firewall vendors are looking to help IT fight back using policy management automation solutions, designed to simplify the task of managing policies — and minimizing the risk of human error.