The Challenge
Slow, complex firewall changes and limited automation success with their previous solution led to stalled projects, rising risks, and high operational.
The company sought to:
- Gain real-time policy analysis for 450+ Check Point firewalls
- Introduce intelligent rule clean up to eliminate risk and inefficiency
- Implement a scalable change automation solution across their large, complex environment
- Provide risk assessment during the entire policy change lifecycle
- Incorporate role based access controls for secure, governed change
The Solution
With FireMon, the customer deployed a centralized platform to manage change across their entire firewall estate, improving visibility, control, and automation.
- Centralized management across 450+ Check Point firewalls delivered unified visibility and streamlined policy control
- Intelligent rule cleanup eliminated redundant, overly-permissive, and shadowed rules to reduce risk and complexity
- Scalable policy change automation increased success rate from 30+ to over 80% accelerating business initiatives
- Continuous risk assessment and integration with ticketing systems enabled governed, secure change workflows
FireMon finally gave us a way to automate change at scale, clean up outdated rules, and move business projects forward, with full confidence in our security posture.
Results
- 100% of policy changes assessed for risk before implementation
- Change window delays reduced from months to days
- 100% of firewall rules monitored for redundancy and shadowing
Increase in successful policy changes
Faster firewall change implementation across 450+ devices
Check Point firewalls centrally managed through a single platform