Tufin is a network security company specializing in the automation and acceleration of network infrastructure changes while improving security and compliance. The Tufin Orchestration Suite supports next-generation firewalls, network layer firewalls, routers, network switches, load balancers, web proxies, private and public cloud platforms and software-defined data centers.
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Corporate History
Tufin was founded by Ruvi Kitov and Reuven Harrison, formerly of Check Point, in 2005 and has sales and support offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The company has global headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. In June 2017, the company announced the opening of its United States headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
The company works with over 400 channel partners throughout the world and serves more than 2,000 customers in every industry including finance, telecom, energy and utilities, healthcare, retail, education, government, manufacturing, transportation, and auditing.
Tufin is privately funded and reports continuous growth since its establishment.
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Products
Tufin develops and markets the Tufin Orchestration Suite which consists of:
- SecureTrack: Firewall Operations Management, Auditing and Compliance
- SecureChange: Security Change Automation
- SecureApp: Application Connectivity Management
To keep up with the changing needs of its customers, the company releases updates to Tufin Orchestration Suite each quarter.
Technology
Built to make network security manageable for large organizations, the company's technology analyzes and maps network topology and security policies, automates configuration changes, enforces a global security policy, and ensures continuous compliance across virtual and physical hybrid networks.
The Suite is designed for large enterprises as well as managed security service providers (MSSP) and IT security auditors. Tufin products help security teams to implement and maintain their security policy on all of their firewalls, routers and network switches. They accelerate service delivery through network change automation and expedite the process of compliance audits for security standards such as PCI DSS, NERC and Sarbanes Oxley. Tufin products also help companies to manage and automate the daily configuration changes to network security devices.The products also help companies to manage and automate the daily configuration changes to network security devices.
The Tufin Orchestration Suite is vendor agnostic, providing integrations with network, ticketing, and security vendors as well as REST APIs. The Suite easily scales with the demands of the enterprise.
Innovation
Tufin's innovation includes several technologies such as the Automatic Policy Generator which refines security rules based on network traffic, methods for automating security policy management and the concept of managing network security policies from an application scope. Tufin's core technology is protected by multiple US patents.
Partnerships
Other network security vendors provide operations management, auditing and change automation for Tufin products. Tufin technology partners include Check Point, Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, Stonesoft, F5 Networks, VMware, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, BMC, ServiceNow, Puppet Labs and others.
References
External links
- Application Connectivity Management - "Tufin's SecureApp Completes Trifecta Of Security Policy Management" by Alan Shimel
- Rethinking Firewall Management - ZDNet article by Tom Foremski
- SIX deploys Tufin - How the Swiss Stock Exchange uses Tufin to manage firewalls and applications
- 2013 Survey of 500 C-level managers and senior IT professionals
- Unified Security Policy - "Tufin firewall management software gets smarter about business apps" by Shamus McGillicuddy
- Official company web site
- "Network Security Policy Management Solutions Have Evolved" - a research paper by Gartner
- "Tufin Collaborates with Microsoft to Integrate Public Cloud Support with Microsoft Azure into the Tufin Orchestration Suite(TM)"
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