Axpo enhances the effectiveness of their firewall policies with SecureTrack

(14/11/2007)

With power plants in North-Eastern and Central Switzerland, the Axpo Group supplies electricity to 3 million people, requiring vast IT resources and consistent security measures to protect internal data. Axpo Group has selected Tufin’s SecureTrack solution, to secure and optimise its firewall operations across Europe.

Axpo Informatik’s selection of SecureTrack illustrates the increasing demand for powerful firewall operations management capabilities that address security, compliance and auditing requirements within one comprehensive solution.

By deploying Tufin’s SecureTrack, Axpo gained a unified, top-down view of its security policies – a comprehensive view of Firewall policy across all customers and objects that provides real-time tracking and reporting of changes. As a result, Axpo’s Firewall operations teams have greatly enhanced the effectiveness of their firewall policies, significantly improving customer service and business continuity, while ensuring regulatory compliance.

With SecureTrack, Axpo Informatik has gained:

§ Change Management: Monitors changes, reports them in real-time and maintains a comprehensive, accurate audit trail for full accountability

§ Security Policy Optimisation and Cleanup: Analysis and clean-up of complex rule bases to eliminate potential security breaches and improve performance

§ Risk Analysis and Business Continuity: Powerful simulation and risk analysis to identify potential security risks, ensure compliance with organisational security standards, and prevent service interruptions

§ Cross-Platform Visual Monitoring: Intuitive, graphical views of firewall policies, rule bases and configuration changes for Check Point, Cisco and Juniper firewalls

§ Auditing and Regulatory Compliance: Thorough auditing of firewall policy changes by an objective third party, supports numerous industry regulations

“With SecureTrack, we now know exactly what changes are being made, and by whom, all in real-time,” said Franco Olivadese, system administrator at Axpo Informatik. Olivadese added, “Tufin’s SecureTrack helps us to analyse the rule bases across our different firewalls at any time, and its automation has made our team much more efficient. We’re able to spend much less time manually analysing and auditing each of our firewalls, which allows us to focus our attention on our customers.”

“Our resellers see SecureTrack as an excellent, time-tested solution that directly answers organisations’ firewall operations needs,” said Paul Karrer, CEO at Internet Security AG, Tufin’s distribution partner in Central Europe. “Well-designed, easy to install and intuitive, SecureTrack offers a remarkably short sales cycle compared to other security products. Our customers are embracing SecureTrack as a truly effective solution that provides tremendous value, security and cost-savings for their firewall operations teams.”

“As a long-trusted energy supplier in Switzerland, Axpo Informatik is the perfect example of a company that requires easy-to-use software to paint a clear picture of all firewall operations, while also enforcing vital security policies,” said Shaul Efraim, vice president of marketing and business development at Tufin Technologies. “SecureTrack continues to experience tremendous growth throughout Europe and the United States, with large companies such as Axpo Group praising its unique capabilities that offer peace of mind to CSOs and firewall operations teams spread out among numerous locations.”

Related topics:  Firewall   Security management and policies 

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