Largest Utility Provider in the Metro Phoenix Area
Implements SecureTrack, to Coordinate Changes, Streamline Business
Processes and Shorten Audit Cycles.
October 21, 2009 - Tufin Technologies, the leading provider
of Security Lifecycle Management solutions today announced the
addition of Salt River Project, the largest provider of power and
water in the metro Phoenix area as a recent addition to its
customer roster. Using SecureTrack to implement standard processes
for monitoring and managing firewall policy changes, SRP has been
able to cut the time it spends on firewall operations in half,
enabling it to more cost effectively and efficiently maintain
highly available, redundant, secure access to the core systems
fundamental to its success.
"As a utilities provider, we are concerned about making changes
that might result in or any sort of service disruption and we
typically don't buy or try new things unless we are SURE that it
works," said Tim Weid, Senior Network Analyst, Salt River Project.
"We recognized quickly that SecureTrack could make our daily
security operations work much easier. Working with a smaller,
crisper rule base is less taxing on both the team and the firewalls
themselves."
"SecureTrack has been a smart investment for us. I would
estimate that we have reduced the time we spend on firewall
maintenance, reporting clean up and auditing by 50 to 60 percent.
Its greater value is in the actual simplicity of using the product,
and the ease at which it track changes - by use, by rule, and by
policy," adds James Heyen, Enterprise Security Architect, Salt
River Project.
SRP's mission is to deliver ever-improving contributions to the
people it serves through the provision of low cost, reliable water,
power, and community programs to ensure the vitality of the Salt
River Valley. In order to implement the process and technology
controls needed to manage network security operations while
maintaining secure, access to business critical applications over
an expanding network infrastructure, SRP needed a standardized
framework for managing firewall policy changes.
SRP had three objectives for implementing a firewall management
solution: coordinate firewall policy changes, streamline business
processes, and shorten audit cycles. Tufin's SecureTrack was the
only solution SRP evaluated that was able to meet its requirements.
Within a few hours of deploying SecureTrack, SRP began to receive
useful change reports that gave them much needed visibility into
the state and nature of existing firewall policies. It also
provided them with reports on the effectiveness of existing rules
and identifying questionable, obsolete, or conflicting policies,
providing SRP with the visibility the needed to create standard
procedures and controls essential for meeting its standardization
criteria.
"We're delighted to add Salt River Project to our customer
roster, and are impressed with how well they have leveraged what
SecureTrack has to offer," said Ruvi Kitov, CEO, Tufin
Technologies. "Our customers tell us one of the best things about
our solutions are that they deliver hard, quantifiable ROI. Knowing
that one of the "softer" benefits is that audits are no longer
painful, drawn out, stressful affairs is just as satisfying to us
as it is to our customers."
A detailed case study on Salt River Project's SecureTrack
deployment is available for download athttp://www.tufin.com/downloads/tufin_SRP_case_study_en.pdf
About SecureTrack
Tufin SecureTrack™ is the market-leading Security Lifecycle
Management solution. SecureTrack enables organizations to enhance
security, reduce service interruptions and automate day-to-day
tasks through powerful firewall management capabilities and
reporting. SecureTrack helps security operations teams to control
and manage policy changes, analyze risks, and ensure business
continuity and allows managers to easily understand the big picture
and align operations with corporate and government security
standards.
About Tufin Technologies, Inc.
Tufin Technologies is the leading provider of Security Lifecycle
Management solutions that enable large organizations to enhance
security, ensure business continuity and increase operational
efficiency. Tufin's products SecureTrack™ and SecureChange™
Workflow help security operations teams to manage change, minimize
risks and dramatically reduce manual, repetitive tasks through
automation. With a combination of accuracy and simplicity, Tufin
empowers security officers to perform reliable audits and
demonstrate compliance with corporate and government standards.
Founded in 2005 by leading firewall and business systems experts,
Tufin now serves more than 400 customers around the world,
including leading financial institutions, telecom service
providers, transportation, energy and pharmaceutical companies. For
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