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Security Policy Rule Management & Cleanup Use Cases

Identify and Remove Unnecessary Items

Streamline network management and improve firewall performance by regularly identifying and removing duplicate, expired, unused, or shadowed rules and objects in your firewall rule bases, ensuring policy optimization, strengthening security controls, and maintaining a zero trust environment for endpoints with real-time adjustments to existing rules.

  • Remove duplicate objects, for example, a service or network host that is defined twice with different names. The Best Practices Report can identify these. 
  • Delete expired and unused rules and objects. All of these are detected by the Rule and Object Usage and the Expired Rules reports. 
  • Delete old and unused policies. Check Point and some other vendors allow you to keep multiple rule bases. This is another test in the Best Practices report. 
  • Remove unused connections – specific source/destination/service routes that are not in use. You can detect those using the Automatic Policy Generator to analyze traffic patterns. 
  • Delete fully shadowed rules that are effectively useless. If you have SecureTrack+, these are detected by the Rule and Object Usage report. 
Rule Management & Cleanup: Identify and Remove Unnecessary Items

Optimize and Secure Rule Management

Enhance network security by optimizing and tightening rulesets through rule recertification, reducing shadowing and insecure firewall configurations, and ensuring segmentation and network access are properly managed with secure authentication for new rules within a robust policy management framework.

  • Reduce rule shadowing, through detection of fully and shadowed rules. 
  • Tighten up permissive rules by running the Automatic Policy Generator (APG) to detect rules that are too open. 
  • Identify and reduce insecure rules using the Best Practices report. 
Rule Management & Cleanup: Optimize and Secure Rule Management

Document and Standardize

Properly document rules, objects, and policy revisions, along with enforcing consistent naming conventions, to ensure clarity, accountability, and ease of future management and audits. 

  • Document rules, objects, and policy revisions and enforce a standard for rule documentation with the Rule Comments Format test in the Best Practices report. 
  • Enforce object naming conventions that make the rule base easy to understand. For example, use a consistent format such as host_name_IP for hosts. 
  • Break up long rule sections into readable chunks. This too can be checked with the Best Practices report. 
Rule Management & Cleanup: Document and Standardize

Firewall Management Resources

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
  • Prioritize and mitigate vulnerabilitiess

SecureChange+

Network Security Change Automation: Enhance your visbility 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