Accelerate Firewall Migration without Disruption
Migrating firewalls, whether to a new vendor, cloud architecture, or hybrid mesh environment, doesn’t have to be risky.
Tufin gives you the control, visibility, and automation to migrate securely and seamlessly, maintaining connectivity, compliance, and confidence every step of the way.
Tufin Firewall Migration
Eliminate Misconfiguration Risk
Detect and prevent missing, conflicting, or mistranslated rules before they impact security or operations.
Ensure Operational Continuity
Maintain uptime, performance, and compliance throughout every phase of migration, no downtime, no guesswork.
Prevent Policy Drift
Migrate and clone rule bases cleanly, eliminating redundancy and keeping policies aligned to business intent.
Stay Continuously Compliant
Maintain audit trails, policy checks, and reporting even while migrating — compliance doesn’t pause.
Firewall Migration Use Cases
Vendor or Platform Switch
Transition from one firewall vendor or platform to another — including cloud-native and next-gen firewalls, while preserving security rule integrity and intent.
Data Center Consolidation & Application Moves
Simplify complex migrations during infrastructure changes, ensuring policies migrate accurately with workloads.
Cloud & Hybrid Migration
Shift enforcement from on-premises to cloud or hybrid environments without sacrificing security or compliance.
Rule base Cloning & Validation
Safely replicate and test policies before go-live, simulating real traffic to verify behavior and prevent disruptions.
Post-Migration Cleanup
Audit and streamline your new environment after migration to remove redundancies and enhance performance.
Why Tufin?
Tufin ensures you migrate with integrity, by not just moving policies, but maintaining performance, security, and compliance from start to finish.
With Tufin, network and security teams can:
- Reduce migration risk with proactive validation and automated policy translation.
- Ensure operational continuity with seamless cutovers and minimal downtime.
- Maintain compliance before, during, and after migration with automated guardrails and reporting.
- Achieve a clean post-migration state where policies are optimized, efficient, and fully aligned with business needs.
- Gain full visibility across every migration phase, from planning to optimization.
Transforming Network Security & Automation
Elevate your network security and cloud security operations with Tufin’s product tiers. Addressing the most challenging use cases, from segmentation insights to enterprise-wide orchestration and automation, experience a holistic approach to network security policy management.
SecureTrack+
Firewall & Security Policy Management
Drive your security policy journey with SecureTrack+
- Centralize network security policy management, risk mitigation and compliance monitoring across firewalls, NGFWs, routers, switches, SDN and hybrid cloud
- Automate policy optimization
- Prioritize and mitigate vulnerabilities
SecureChange+
Network Security Change Automation
Enhance your visibility and automate mundane tasks with SecureChange+
- Achieve continuous compliance
- Reduce network change SLAs by up to 90% with network change design and rule lifecycle management
- Identify risky attack vectors and detect lateral movement
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues across the hybrid cloud
Enterprise
Zero-Trust Network Security at Scale
Fortify your network security operations with Enterprise
- Achieve zero-touch automation through provisioning of network access changes
- Deploy apps faster through application connectivity management
- Minimize downtime and data loss with High Availability and built-in redundancy
FAQs
Firewall migration is the process of moving firewall configurations, policies, and rule sets from an old firewall to a new firewall, next-generation firewall, or cloud-based firewall. This migration process is often required when organizations upgrade to new firewall vendors such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, or Check Point, or when they transition from legacy devices like Cisco ASA to NGFWs for example.
A firewall migration tool helps migrate configurations, validate functionality, and optimize firewall management during the cutover. The goal is a successful migration that reduces vulnerabilities, maintains network security, and aligns with zero trust and cloud security strategies.
- Define a migration strategy and create a detailed firewall migration plan covering every stage of the migration lifecycle.
- Conduct a risk assessment of the old firewall and identify vulnerabilities in current firewall policies and firewall rules.
- Choose the right firewall migration tool to migrate configurations, templates, and configuration files between firewall vendors.
- Validate the new firewall configuration and ensure functionality matches the old firewall while improving optimization.
- Include rollback options in case the migration project encounters issues during the cutover.
- Plan for post-migration validation, decommissioning of the old firewall, and long-term firewall management processes.
Tufin streamlines migration projects by automating policy migration, helping security teams optimize rule sets, validate new configurations, and ensure a smooth transition across complex data center and cloud security environments.
- Compatibility issues between firewall vendors such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Check Point.
- Errors when migrating configuration files, templates, or firewall policies.
- Security gaps from overlooked vulnerabilities or misaligned firewall rules.
- Network downtime during cutover if high availability planning is not in place.
- Functionality mismatches when the new firewall introduces different capabilities than the old firewall.
- Complexity in managing VPNs, routers, and policy migration across enterprise networking and cloud security environments.
- Ensuring post-migration validation and optimization while decommissioning the old firewall.
Professional services and migration tools are often required to mitigate these challenges, streamline the migration process, and help security teams deliver a successful migration.
- Start with a comprehensive firewall migration strategy that aligns with organizational cybersecurity goals.
- Use a firewall migration tool to migrate configurations and validate results across multiple firewall vendors.
- Optimize firewall policies and firewall rules during the migration process to eliminate redundancies and reduce the attack surface.
- Validate the new firewall configuration in real time with test traffic and rollback options available.
- Streamline change management by using templates, automation, and centralized visibility.
- Plan for post-migration activities such as continuous monitoring, rule optimization, and decommissioning the old firewall.
- Engage professional services when handling large-scale migration projects involving data centers, cloud environments, and multiple firewalls.
Tufin supports successful migrations by automating policy migration, optimizing firewall configuration, and helping security teams reduce risk throughout the firewall migration lifecycle.
Migrate with confidence. Save time, avoid risk.
Request a demo to see how Tufin provides safe and efficient firewall migration across any environment.
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