Security Policy Management leader continues its tradition of innovation; SecureApp provides the ability to manage firewall policies by applications
Ramat Gan, Israel: Tufin Technologies, the market-leading provider of Security Policy Management solutions, last week unveiled a brand new product, SecureApp(tm). SecureApp was developed to address what firewall administrators cite as one of their biggest challenges: managing the network connectivity of enterprise applications. As verified in a survey conducted this month among more than 100 network security professionals, 9 out of 10 organizations say that the most common reason for a firewall change request is application connectivity related. Almost one third said they believed a rule change related to a new application may have caused a breach, and 31% deploy a new application each week. Despite the sophisticated automation offered by existing firewall management solutions, managing application connectivity has remained a manual and error prone process.
“We were already a big fan of Tufin’s products, but SecureApp is a game-changer,” said Christoph Littwin, Head of Telecommunications, SIX Group. “The majority of our firewall changes are application related. We knew we were spending far too much time on tasks like application deployment and decommissioning, and wanted to manage application-related firewall changes from a business process perspective instead of hunting for connectivity data spread across our entire infrastructure. We found nothing on the market and even considered developing and implementing our own tool. When Tufin showed us SecureApp our requirements were almost identical, and we immediately moved forward. We are delighted with the product and applaud Tufin for its ongoing innovation.”
“While Next Generation Firewalls are moving the industry forward by making firewalls application-aware, network security operations must also move forward by evolving firewall management practices to beapplication-connectivity aware.” said Jim Frey, managing research director, Enterprise Management Associates. “That means starting ‘top-down’ with application-specific policy management, so business-facing activities such as adding or de-commissioning applications can be linked directly to security infrastructure changes. Tufin has taken precisely this approach with SecureApp, which puts an application connectivity-centered front end on their established firewall management solution. The new combination offers a sure opportunity to improve communication with application owners while also increasing efficiency, accuracy, integrity, and policy compliance.