Last updated February 15th, 2023 by Erez Tadmor
As the spread of COVID-19 is forcing employees to work remotely, it’s put an unprecedented strain on organizations’ network and security teams, a direct result of the sudden rise in new access requests from remote employees.
For many IT departments, this means having to spread even thinner across the growing complexity and fragmentation of the enterprise network. The upsurge in requests that IT and security managers must handle, translates into an increased amount of firewall rule changes across datacenters and the cloud. It’s overwhelming, and nearly impossible to monitor and analyze every change across the complex hybrid IT environment.
To best support network and security admins, and help global enterprises regain visibility and control of firewall changes, Tufin’s offering a new FREE tool, the ‘Firewall Change Tracker’.
The Firewall Change Tracker effectively detects and highlights firewall rule changes. It’s done by connecting to firewalls, routers, and switches from all primary vendors, and provides a central console that monitors, displays and compares policy revisions from each device, in real-time. You can view what has changed, by whom, when, and why.
One of the strengths of this tool is that you can track rule changes for multi-vendor firewall devices, regardless if the firewall device is in the cloud or on-premise.
In addition to information about the change that was made, Tufin also collects information about who made the change, when it was made, and whether there’s a comment or a reference associated with it.
The Firewall Change Tracker is based on Tufin Orchestration Suite™ and leverages Tufin’s market-wide integrations with multiple, leading firewall vendors and cloud providers. This enables admins to add devices and immediately start detecting changes for all leading firewall devices, including tracking rule changes in AWS Security Groups and Azure Network Security Groups, as well as in VMware NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) policies, and with Cisco ACI contracts.
How to Get Started with Firewall Change Tracker
Firewall Change Tracker is easy to use. You download the tool, deploy the OVA file as instructed, and activate the tool using the activation key in your registration confirmation email. Once you’ve installed the tool, you can start adding devices that you want to monitor and track for policy revision changes.
There’s no expiration date and no limit to the number of users per licensing key, so you can easily share visibility and increase collaboration with your peers.
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