Continuous Firewall Security Automation
Firewall rule bases expand fast with unused, duplicate, and overly permissive rules introducing security risk, slowing performance, and complicating audits.
Tufin automates the full rule lifecycle, from creation to recertification and cleanup, keeping your firewalls lean, secure, and continuously compliant across hybrid environments.
Rule Management & Cleanup
Reduce Risk
Identify and eliminate unused, shadowed, or risky rules before they expose your network to attack.
Enforce Least Privilege
Tighten overly permissive access using real traffic analytics and policy context to enforce least-privilege standards.
Save Time & Effort
Replace manual cleanup with automated workflows that streamline rule reviews, recertification, and decommissioning.
Stay Continuously Compliant
Maintain ongoing alignment with frameworks like PCI DSS, NIST, and DORA through automated validation and audit-ready reporting.
Hybrid & Cloud-Ready
Manage rule hygiene consistently across traditional firewalls, next-gen devices, and cloud security groups — all from one unified platform.
Rule Management & Cleanup Use Cases
Automated Rule Recertification
Schedule recurring reviews to confirm which rules are still needed, and safely retire the rest.
Shadow & Redundancy Detection
Uncover duplicate, overlapping, or never-hit rules that clutter rulebases and create confusion.
Automated Decommissioning
Remove expired or unnecessary rules and objects automatically — with no risk to live business traffic.
Pre-Change Validation
Simulate rule changes before implementation to catch conflicts, avoid outages, and prevent compliance violations.
Audit & Hygiene Reporting
Generate visual, audit-ready reports that prove rule base hygiene and optimization to internal and external auditors.
Why Tufin?
Tufin helps you find and clean up outdated rules continuously. With rule lifecycle automation, your firewalls stay optimized, compliant, and high-performing, without the manual workload.
With Tufin, network and security teams can:
- Reduce breach risk by removing dormant, unused, and shadowed rules before attackers can exploit them.
- Cut operational costs through automation that eliminates manual review and cleanup.
- Simplify compliance with audit-ready reports and continuous rule validation.
- Boost performance by keeping firewalls lean, efficient, and responsive — even at enterprise scale.
- Achieve consistent control across every environment with centralized visibility and policy automation.
Transforming Network Security & Automation
Elevate your network security and cloud security operations with Tufin’s product tiers. Addressing the most challenging use cases, from segmentation insights to enterprise-wide orchestration and automation, experience a holistic approach to network security policy management.
SecureTrack+
Firewall & Security Policy Management
Drive your security policy journey with SecureTrack+
- Centralize network security policy management, risk mitigation and compliance monitoring across firewalls, NGFWs, routers, switches, SDN and hybrid cloud
- Automate policy optimization
- Prioritize and mitigate vulnerabilities
SecureChange+
Network Security Change Automation
Enhance your visibility and automate mundane tasks with SecureChange+
- Achieve continuous compliance
- Reduce network change SLAs by up to 90% with network change design and rule lifecycle management
- Identify risky attack vectors and detect lateral movement
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues across the hybrid cloud
Enterprise
Zero-Trust Network Security at Scale
Fortify your network security operations with Enterprise
- Achieve zero-touch automation through provisioning of network access changes
- Deploy apps faster through application connectivity management
- Minimize downtime and data loss with High Availability and built-in redundancy
FAQs
Effective firewall rule management requires a structured process that reduces vulnerabilities, streamlines workflows, and improves firewall security. Security teams should use automation tools and management tools to apply consistent network security policies across multiple firewalls and environments, including on-premises and cloud security. Rule changes should be validated against compliance standards such as PCI DSS to avoid misconfigurations that can lead to unauthorized access.
Tufin helps organizations automate firewall rule management by enforcing firewall policy across hybrid environments, ensuring rule creation, change management, and troubleshooting are consistent and efficient.
Firewall rules define the functions and traffic flow that a network firewall will allow or block, making them a cornerstone of cybersecurity. Properly configured firewall rules control inbound and outbound connections, protect sensitive data from potential threats, and reduce the attack surface against cyberattacks. They also ensure compliance with security policies and regulatory frameworks, helping security teams maintain a strong security posture.
Without effective firewall rules, organizations face misconfigurations, bottlenecks, and vulnerabilities that can expose systems to cyber threats.
- Conduct regular firewall audits to identify redundant or outdated rules within the firewall ruleset.
- Apply rule optimization to streamline traffic flow and reduce inefficiencies in firewall configuration.
- Use automation tools to validate rule changes in real time and prevent misconfigurations.
- Remove permissive or unused rules that increase the attack surface and security risks.
- Align firewall security policies with compliance standards such as PCI DSS during the cleanup process.
- Integrate automation and management tools to streamline change management across multiple firewalls.
Tufin provides visibility and automation to help security teams remediate outdated firewall rules, optimize firewall performance, and maintain continuous compliance.
Optimizing firewall rule performance involves reducing bottlenecks, improving network performance, and ensuring rules support both security and business use cases. This includes monitoring network traffic patterns such as TCP connections to destination IP addresses, tuning firewall rules for efficiency, and validating policy changes with automation tools. Security teams should also ensure that firewall performance aligns with zero trust and modern network security policies.
By using automation and centralized policy management, Tufin helps organizations optimize firewall performance, reduce troubleshooting time, and maintain strong protection against cyber threats across hybrid environments.
Stay clean, lean, and compliant — automatically.
Request a demo today to see how Tufin rule management and cleanup simplifies firewall security rule management at scale.
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