Seamless Firewall Migration and PCI Recovery

The Challenge

The organization’s migration from Check Point to Cisco uncovered long-standing security policy issues that had been carried forward through years of manual rule management. A failed PCI audit brought urgent attention to their compliance standards.

The company sought to:

• Automate firewall policy enforcement to reduce manual errors and audit risk
• Accelerate secure migration without compromising daily operations or uptime
• Increase real-time visibility across their Check Point and Cisco environments
• Eliminate redundant, overly permissive, and shadowed rules to tighten security
• Continuously monitor policy changes to meet PCI 4.0 requirements
• Standardize policies across platforms to simplify future audits and operations

The Solution

FireMon provided a structured, risk-aware migration strategy that ensured security posture improvements through the transition. By delivering policy cleanup, real-time traffic analysis, and automated change workflows, FireMon enabled the organization to migrate only what was necessary, streamlining the process while reducing risk, improving visibility, and achieving continuous compliance.

• Rule optimization to clean up unnecessary legacy policies and reduce risk
• Continuous policy monitoring and real-time change tracking
• PCI 4.0 compliance automation with out-of-the-box reporting
• Centralized visibility across 90+ Cisco, Citrix, and NSX systems
• Access Path Analysis to streamline troubleshooting during migration

Results

• 100% PCI 4.0 compliance post-migration
• Fully automated audit and compliance workflows
• Decommissioning of legacy rules and unnecessary access paths