A leading U.S nonprofit health system leveraged FireMon to clean up redundant, overly permissive, and shadowed firewall rules before migrating, eliminating risk at the source.

Case Study

Seamless Firewall Migration and PCI Recovery

A leading U.S nonprofit health system that operates multiple hospitals and clinics, delivering integrated care and advanced medical services.

Use Cases:

Enforce Compliance, Reduce Risk

Industry:

Healthcare

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

FireMon gave us the clarity and control we needed to clean up our policies and migrate to Cisco without missing a beat. We stayed compliant, reduced risk, and kept everything running smoothly.

Manager, Information Security

managing the selection and deployment of FireMon

Results

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

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100%

PCI 4.0 Compliance

Redundant or overly permissive rules leftover during policy cleanup and optimization

50%

Audit preparation time reduced with automated compliance reporting

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.