Simplify Your Hybrid Mesh Firewall Management
Gain full visibility and centralized policy control across on-premises, cloud, and SASE environments – eliminating blind spots, automating change management, and ensuring continuous compliance. Simplify operations, reduce risk, and accelerate secure deployments, all from one platform.
Tufin for Hybrid Mesh Firewall Management
Unified Visibility
Tufin delivers a unified control plane spanning traditional, next-gen, and cloud-managed firewalls. You gain the most accurate visibility across every environment, identifying security gaps and ensuring consistent policy enforcement from the data center to the cloud.
Rule Lifecycle Management
Automate policy design, cleanup, and recertification across multi-vendor networks. Tufin streamlines rule hygiene, eliminates redundant access, and enforces continuous compliance — all while maintaining the speed your business demands.
Network Access Orchestration
Simplify change management across firewalls and cloud security groups with automated workflows and pre-change risk validation. Tufin ensures every modification aligns with business intent, compliance requirements, and least-privilege access principles.
Continuous Compliance
Maintain alignment with frameworks like NIST, PCI DSS, and DORA through automated audits, real-time policy checks, and on-demand reporting. Tufin continuously validates configuration integrity to prove compliance anytime, without the manual effort.
Hybrid Mesh Firewall Use Cases
Keep Policies Clean and Secure
Automate rule cleanup, recertification, and optimization to shrink your attack surface and maintain a strong security posture.
Accelerate Secure Access Changes
Move at the speed of business with automated, policy-driven workflows that manage firewall and cloud changes in minutes, not days.
Stop Real Risk
Pinpoint which vulnerabilities are truly exposed, focus remediation where it matters most, and prevent potential breaches before they happen.
Extend Security Everywhere
Apply consistent, centralized policy management across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises firewalls — all from one unified platform.
Stay Continuously Compliant
Eliminate audit stress with automated checks, reports, and guardrails that prove compliance every day.
Why Tufin?
Tufin delivers unified network security posture management across on-premises, cloud, SASE, and hybrid environments. With a single control plane, Tufin connects policy, exposure, and compliance to give you complete visibility and control.
With Tufin, security teams can:
- Reduce breach risk by identifying and eliminating unmanaged exposures before they’re exploited.
- Cut operational costs through automation, streamlined workflows, and tool consolidation.
- Simplify compliance with continuous validation, automated reporting, and built-in audit readiness.
- Accelerate secure change delivery with policy-driven automation that enforces intent and compliance at every step.
- Gain full network visibility to understand how every device, rule, and connection impacts your overall security posture.
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
A hybrid mesh firewall is a next-generation approach to network security that provides consistent protection across data centers, branch offices, on-premises systems, public cloud, and multi-cloud environments. Unlike traditional network firewalls, hybrid mesh firewall solutions combine cloud-delivered and on-premises enforcement points into a single architecture. They enable centralized management, automation, and unified policy enforcement, making them scalable and adaptable to modern hybrid environments with diverse workloads.
Hybrid mesh firewall platforms integrate advanced capabilities such as intrusion prevention, threat detection, and zero-trust segmentation, helping security teams streamline operations and reduce the attack surface.
- Unified management that enables consistent policy across cloud-native firewalls, virtual firewalls, and on-premises devices
- Automation of policy management and workflows, streamlining security operations and reducing errors
- Scalable protection for diverse workloads, SaaS apps, and cloud-native applications across hybrid environments
- Advanced threat protection with AI-powered network security, threat intelligence, and real-time visibility into the evolving threat landscape
- High-performance security controls that optimize network operations while maintaining strong cybersecurity posture
These benefits help organizations reduce vulnerabilities, optimize security policies, and support security teams with centralized control.
- Traditional network firewalls are typically deployed in a data center or single on-premises location, offering perimeter-based defense. They provide essential firewall capabilities but lack unified control across hybrid environments.
- Hybrid mesh firewall platforms combine next-generation firewalls, cloud-based firewalls into a connected architecture. This enables consistent security policies across multi-cloud environments, branch offices, with centralized control.
Hybrid mesh firewall solutions provide greater flexibility, scalable deployment options, and integration with service edge security models.
- Assess use cases such as remote work, IoT device security, or SaaS adoption to determine deployment priorities.
- Implement centralized management for policy enforcement, reducing inconsistencies across network firewalls, cloud-native firewalls, and virtual firewalls.
- Automate change workflows to optimize security management.
- Streamline troubleshooting to ensure speed remediation across hybrid mesh firewalls.
- Use segmentation to contain lateral movement and align with zero-trust security principles.
- Monitor security posture in real time with dashboards, threat detection, and incident response integrated across hybrid environments.
- Optimize performance with AI-powered analytics, suited to both data centers and cloud platforms.
These best practices improve resilience, optimize policy management, and strengthen overall cybersecurity.
- Hybrid environments requiring consistent security across data centers, cloud platforms, and branch offices.
- Multi-cloud security with unified policies for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and private clouds.
- Zero-trust strategies that enforce segmentation and least-privilege access across workloads and endpoints.
- SASE deployments combining FWaaS, SD-WAN, and service edge security services.
- Industry-specific scenarios such as healthcare needing scalable, high-performance controls to secure sensitive data and meet compliance requirements.
Hybrid mesh firewall platforms are designed to address modern cybersecurity challenges by providing flexible deployment, centralized policy enforcement, and seamless integration with broader security solutions.
A hybrid mesh firewall enhances network security by unifying firewall deployment across on-premises, cloud-based, and cloud-delivered enforcement points. It enables security teams to apply consistent policy and automation across all environments, reducing the attack surface and addressing vulnerabilities in real time.
These platforms strengthen cybersecurity by integrating intrusion prevention, advanced threat protection, and threat intelligence into a single security fabric. They provide visibility across network traffic, optimize policy enforcement, and support faster incident response, helping organizations defend against cyberattacks, malware, and data breaches.
Tufin makes Hybrid Mesh Firewall management simple, scalable, and secure.
Request a Demo today to see how Tufin can modernize firewall operations across your hybrid estate.
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