Contain Threats, Enforce Zero Trust
Effective segmentation management requires complete visibility into topology, dependencies, and communication flow, all orchestrated from a unified control plane.
With complete visibility, policy automation, and compliance enforcement, Tufin enables security teams to design, test, and enforce segmentation policies confidently, without disrupting application performance or agility.
Microsegmentation Use Cases
Zero Trust Enforcement
Enforce least-privilege access and restrict lateral movement by applying policies only where needed.
Application Dependency Mapping
Automatically discover and visualize workload communication paths to define precise segmentation boundaries.
Policy Simulation and Validation
Test and validate segmentation policies before deployment to strengthen security without disrupting operations.
Hybrid Segmentation Orchestration
Apply consistent segmentation across data centers, virtualized environments, and cloud platforms.
Compliance and Audit Readiness
Demonstrate adherence to Zero Trust frameworks and regulatory mandates through automated validation and reporting.
Applications now span data centers, private clouds, and public clouds, weakening the traditional network perimeter and requiring more granular, workload-level security controls. Microsegmentation brings protection closer to the applications by dividing networks into smaller, isolated zones with precise access policies.
This approach limits lateral movement, reduces the impact of potential breaches, and enforces Zero Trust principles, keeping critical assets secure wherever they reside.
Simplifying Microsegmentation with Centralized Policy Control
Microsegmentation succeeds only when policies are precise, consistent, and continuously maintained. These rules govern how applications and workloads communicate across environments. Without centralized visibility and control, organizations risk over-permissive access, policy drift, and exploitable security gaps.
Why Scaling Microsegmentation Is So Difficult
Tufin unifies microsegmentation policy management through a single, centralized control plane.
Implementing microsegmentation across hybrid environments is inherently complex. Each platform, from on-premises data centers to public cloud, uses different tools, rule structures, and enforcement models. Security, network, and DevOps teams often manage configurations in isolation, creating silos, misalignment, and inconsistent policy enforcement.
This fragmentation results in partial implementations, policy overlaps, and operational friction that prevent segmentation initiatives from realizing their full Zero Trust potential.
How Tufin Solves Microsegmentation Complexity
Tufin unifies microsegmentation policy management through a single, centralized control plane.
With Tufin, you can:
- Gain end-to-end visibility into application connectivity and segmentation boundaries.
- Define, simulate, and enforce microsegmentation policies across hybrid environments.
- Automatically detect and remediate segmentation gaps and misconfigurations before deployment.
- Orchestrate policy enforcement across platforms such as Cisco ACI and VMware NSX-T.
- Connect security, network, and operations teams to deliver scalable Zero Trust segmentation.
Why Tufin?
Tufin simplifies and unifies your entire segmentation strategy.
By combining visibility, orchestration, and automation within a single platform, Tufin enables enterprises to achieve scalable Zero Trust segmentation efficiently, consistently, and without sacrificing agility.
With Tufin, organizations can:
- Reduce breach impact by isolating workloads and limiting lateral movement.
- Simplify segmentation management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Maintain compliance through continuous monitoring and automated validation.
- Unify teams and tools under a centralized policy control plane.
- Accelerate Zero Trust initiatives without compromising application performance or agility.
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
Yes. Microsegmentation is a core component of Zero Trust and directly supports the principle of never trust, always verify. By isolating workloads, enforcing least privilege access, and controlling east-west traffic at a granular level, microsegmentation reduces the attack surface and prevents lateral movement across the entire network. It strengthens Zero Trust architecture by ensuring that each application, endpoint, and virtual machine communicates only with the resources it is explicitly authorized to access.
Zero Trust security relies on continuous authentication, real-time policy validation, and fine-grained segmentation policies, all of which are enabled through effective microsegmentation.
A common example is separating application tiers into secure zones with specific access control rules. For instance, a database workload is isolated from a web server using segmentation policies that allow only the required traffic flows based on known IP addresses and functions.
Other examples include:
- Creating segmentation boundaries between sensitive data stores and general workloads.
- Isolating individual workloads in virtual machines or cloud environments to prevent unauthorized access.
- Applying granular control to restrict communication across subnets, VLANs, or virtualized environments.
These techniques limit lateral movement, reduce vulnerabilities, and strengthen network security across hybrid environments.
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) controls how users and devices authenticate and access applications, focusing primarily on north-south traffic entering the network. It replaces traditional VPN models by enforcing identity-based access to specific apps.
Microsegmentation focuses on controlling east-west traffic within the network by isolating workloads, virtual machines, and endpoints. It uses segmentation policies, firewalls, VLANs, and security controls to prevent unauthorized access and reduce the impact of cyber threats.
ZTNA protects access at the network edge, while microsegmentation protects internal communication between individual workloads. Both work together as foundational elements of a Zero Trust strategy.
Yes. Microsegmentation works across cloud networks, multi-cloud environments, and hybrid environments by applying fine-grained segmentation to workloads and sensitive data. It uses security policies, access control, virtual firewalls, and cloud-native controls to isolate application components and enforce Zero Trust principles.
Whether deployed in a data center, private cloud, or public cloud, microsegmentation reduces unauthorized access, improves security posture, and provides consistent protection for virtual machines, containers, and SaaS applications.
The Zero Trust security model is a cybersecurity approach that assumes no user, device, or workload is trusted by default. Every access request must be authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated, regardless of where it originates.
Zero Trust security emphasizes:
- Least privilege access
- Segmentation policies and granular control
- Real-time monitoring of network traffic and authentication events
- Reducing attack surface by isolating workloads and protecting sensitive data
- Preventing lateral movement within the network
Zero Trust aligns tightly with microsegmentation to secure both north-south and east-west traffic across the network.
Yes. Traditional network segmentation divides the network into larger segments such as subnets or VLANs. It reduces broad access but still allows significant lateral movement within each segment.
Microsegmentation provides more fine-grained control by isolating individual workloads, virtual machines, or application components. It applies workload-level policies driven by Zero Trust principles and least privilege access.
Network segmentation improves overall structure, while microsegmentation significantly enhances security posture by tightly controlling traffic flows and permissions within each segment.
Microsegmentation enhances Zero Trust security by enforcing isolation at the workload level and applying segmentation policies that prevent lateral movement. It ensures that each workload communicates only through authorized paths, reducing exposure to cyber threats and malware.
By creating secure zones, controlling east-west traffic, and applying least privilege principles, microsegmentation strengthens Zero Trust architecture across on-premises networks, virtualized environments, and cloud environments. It also simplifies regulatory compliance by demonstrating that sensitive data and critical workloads are separated from general traffic.
Getting Started with Tufin
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