100% compliance-ready reporting across a 600+ device multi-vendor environment

The challenge

This global financial services and insurance provider, managing 600+ firewalls and routers across Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Fortinet, Zscaler and Cisco, had spent years unable to get reliable automation working with its incumbent NSPM vendor. Operating under strict PCI, GDPR and regional financial services compliance mandates, the company needed centralised multi-vendor policy governance, automated change workflows, rule recertification and audit-ready reporting, none of which its previous vendor could operationalise, despite repeated attempts.The company sought to:

• Centralise multi-vendor policy normalisation across its entire firewall environment
• Automate change workflows with audit-ready approval documentation
• Streamline rule recertification and clean-up to reduce policy bloat and drift
• Establish trusted, centralised compliance reporting across all platforms

The solution

FireMon delivered working change automation immediately — succeeding where the incumbent vendor had failed for years, and where a second evaluated competitor couldn't get reporting functional at all. A hardened, single control plane replaced fragmented, untrusted visibility with normalised reporting across every vendor platform, while eliminating the "open server" OS maintenance burden the alternative solutions required.

• Automated change workflows, eliminating manual firewall rule execution
• Trusted, normalised reporting across all vendor platforms
• Cloud-ready change automation across the full multi-vendor environment
• Centralised visibility, closing cross-domain compliance gaps

Results

• Achieved working policy automation immediately, after years of failed attempts with the prior vendor
• Replaced fragmented, untrusted reporting with normalised visibility across the entire multi-vendor environment
• Eliminated ongoing OS maintenance burden through a hardened appliance architecture