December 4, 2012- Tufin Technologies, the market-leading
provider of Security Policy Management solutions, today announced
SIX as the first Tufin customer to deploy its new product,
SecureApp, in a production environment. SecureApp enables SIX
to deploy applications faster, improve availability and become even
more secure.
SIX operates Switzerland's financial market infrastructure and
offers on a global scale comprehensive services in the areas of
securities trading, clearing and settlement, as well as financial
information and payment transactions. SIX's business depends
on hundreds of applications and business services with distributed
architectures and fast changing network requirements, all of which
generate a high volume of application-related firewall change
requests. SIX's network security team deployed the
Tufin Security Suite to map firewall change processes to the
application-centric needs of the business while ensuring that SIX's
security policy would never be compromised.
"We have always highly appreciated Tufin's
products, but SecureApp is a game-changer," said Christoph Littwin,
Head of Telecommunications, SIX. "The majority of our firewall
changes are application related. We knew we were spending 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 think highly of Tufin's ongoing development of
innovative solutions."
SIX's firewall change processes were quite complicated and
required many resources, both in terms of personnel and time. Tasks
such as application deployment, maintenance and decommissioning
were time consuming and error prone. In addition, SIX's
firewall team was continuously being challenged by the
ever-increasing risk of attacks and needed advanced tools to
identify and mitigate the risks.
Tufin worked closely with SIX
to gain a thorough understanding of its application connectivity
needs. Together, they created a set of requirements, which evolved
and grew as Tufin supplied updated versions of SecureApp,
culminating in the official product release.
Within a few weeks, SecureApp streamlined the process by which
SIX manages applications, as well as diagnoses connectivity
problems. In the short time that SecureApp has been deployed,
SIX's IT team reports that the majority of its application
connectivity processes have been expedited. For a more
detailed account of the deployment, please read the
SIX case study.
"We are very fortunate to have found such a great design partner
in the SIX security team - their contributions were essential to
the development of SecureApp," said Reuven Harrison, CTO,
Tufin. "They held us to a very high standard, and SecureApp
is a better product because of it. As enterprises continue to
become increasingly application-centric, SecureApp will help
security, applications and operations teams and to remain agile,
efficient, and able to adjust to changing business and IT
requirements."
Read the
SIX case study
About Tufin Technologies
Tufin™ is the leading provider of Security Policy Management
solutions that enable organizations to take control of their
firewalls. More than 1000 companies have deployed the award-winning
Tufin Security Suite to proactively manage risk, continuously
comply with standards, and keep business-critical applications
online. The
Tufin Security Suite (TSS) consists of three products:
SecureTrack,
SecureChange, and Tufin's most recent innovation,
SecureApp. TSS enables IT to automate and centrally manage
security policies across a wide set of network infrastructure,
including traditional and next-generation firewalls, routers,
switches and load balancers. With a unique, application-oriented
approach, Tufin simplifies and streamlines firewall operations,
slashing the time spent on policy management by up to 75%.
Founded in 2005, Tufin serves customers in every industry
including finance, telecommunications, transportation and energy,
and partners with Check Point, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Fortinet,
F5, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and BMC to provide the most
comprehensive solutions available.
