Case Study

Rapid Compliance Recovery Following Major Audit Failure

One of the largest national telecommunications providers in the Middle East, delivering fixed, mobile, data, and international connectivity services to millions of customers across the region.

Use Cases:

Enforce Compliance, Manage Change

Industry:

Telecom

The Challenge

This major telecommunications organization, managing a sprawling infrastructure of 156 firewalls across Palo Alto, Forcepoint, Fortinet, Cisco, and VMware, created fragmented visibility, misconfigurations, and uncontrolled change activity. A recent audit failure revealed major compliance gaps and exposed the company to significant regulatory penalties. Manual cleanup, poor governance, and lack of centralized control made compliance reporting slow, costly, and unreliable.

The company sought to:

Centralize multi-vendor firewall visibility
Automate compliance reporting to avoid future audit penalties
Detect and prevent misconfigurations before deployment
Establish governance and change accountability at scale

The Solution

FireMon provided a single platform for real-time visibility, compliance enforcement, and risk management across all 156 firewalls, regardless of vendor. Automated policy validation and reporting restored audit readiness, while topology mapping and rule analysis uncovered hidden risks and misconfigurations before they became problems. Detailed governance data equipped both security teams and auditors with full change history and accountability.

FireMon enabled:

Centralized oversight across multi-vendor firewalls
Automated compliance validation and reporting
Pre-deployment misconfiguration detection
Scalable architecture for national-level telecom infrastructure
Granular audit trails and change tracking

FireMon gave us full clarity across all firewalls, eliminated compliance risk, and restored confidence in our network governance. It’s the foundation of our long-term security strategy.”

[Head of IT Operations, National Telecommunications Provider]

managing the selection and deployment of FireMon

Results

Achieved 100% compliance across entire firewall estate
Reduced audit preparation time and eliminated manual reporting risks
Strengthened visibility and reduced policy misconfigurations
Improved operational speed through automation and analytics

100%

Compliance Readiness Across Entire Environment

156+

Firewalls Centralized

5

Vendors Consolidated

About FireMon

FireMon’s mission is to improve security operations that will in turn lead to better security outcomes. FireMon delivers industry-leading security policy management, cloud security operations, and asset management solutions. Our platform is the only real-time solution that reduces firewall and cloud security policy-related risks, manages policy changes, and enforces compliance. FireMon’s Cloud Defense (formerly DisruptOps) is the only distributed cloud security operations offering that detects and responds to issues in the fast-paced public cloud environments. Our cloud-based Asset Management solution (formerly Lumeta) scans entire infrastructures to identify everything in the environment and provide valuable insights into how it’s all connected.