Tufin is a security policy management company specializing in the automation of security policy changes across hybrid platforms while improving security and compliance. The Tufin Orchestration Suite supports next-generation firewalls, network layer

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s. On August 25, 2022, Turn/River Capital completed the acquisition of Tuffin.

History

Prior to its 2019

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, Tufin was privately funded since its establishment. On April 6, 2022 Tufin announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by software-focused

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, Turn/River Capital. The agreement valued the company at $570 Million, and was an all-cash deal. Since the closing of the transaction, Tufin is a private company.

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 * SecureCloud: Hybrid Cloud Security The company releases updates to Tufin Orchestration Suite each quarter. The Suite is designed for large enterprises as well as

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providers (MSSP) and IT security auditors. Tufin products help security teams to implement and maintain their

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on all of their firewalls, routers and

es. They accelerate service delivery through network change automation and expedite the process of compliance audits for security standards such as

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. Tufin products also help companies to manage and automate the daily configuration changes to network security devices.

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,

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, Amazon Web Services (AWS),

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, 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

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uses Tufin to manage firewalls and applications
2013 Survey of 500 C-level managers and senior IT professionals

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™"
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