Enhanced network security controls: the real value of Stonesoft and Tufin.

With the high sophistication of the cyber attacks, the cyber security companies have to combine their expertise and technologies with the goal to mitigate the risks. Solution providers also have to ensure their customers that, Security Policy is always in line with business without sacrificing compliance, efficiency or agility.

At the cyber security expert Stonesoft, a McAfee Group Company, and Tufin Technologies, the provider of Security Policy Orchestration solutions, they focus on

the integration of their management interfaces.

Therefore, Connectikpeople.co observes that, the joint solution combines Stonesoft’s contextual awareness with Tufin’s security policy orchestration with the goal to provide joint users with enhanced network security controls and a more holistic approach to managing increasingly complex, dynamic, multi-vendor networks.

Connectikpeople.co can also observe that, the Security Management Center (SMC), part of the Stonesoft Next Generation Firewall, provides an Application Programming Interface (API) with the 5.6 release. While the SMC aims to make management of the Next Generation Firewall smooth and easy, this API simplifies integrations between the SMC and third party management systems. The REST architecture-based SMC API enables network managers to automate tasks such as element and rule addition, editing and removal.

The Tufin Orchestration Suite™ is a centralized policy management system spanning over multiple technologies and vendors. Version R13-3 of the Tufin Orchestration Suite adds Stonesoft's SMC to its wide range of supported network devices.

The initial phase of the integration via the SMC API enables users to manage network topology, view and analyze policies, as well as track policy changes through the Tufin Orchestration Suite. It also provides tools that assist mutual customers in meeting regulatory compliance standards such as PCI-DSS and SOX.

A note of 8 out of ten rewards this range of initiatives. 

About Stonesoft, a McAfee Group Company

Stonesoft protects valuable information and digital assets through integrated and centrally managed Next Generation Firewall/VPN, intrusion and evasion prevention system technologies. Stonesoft’s product portfolio provides organizations the highest level of cyber security, investment protection, operational resilience, situational awareness, centralized command and control and resource optimization. Stonesoft's unified software core enables an adaptive and agile advantage, as well as cost efficiency over hardware- and blade-based competitors.  Stonesoft has the highest customer retention rate in the industry due to low TCO, a flexible licensing model and overall customer service excellence. Stonesoft is widely recognized for its research of advanced evasion techniques (AETs) used in targeted cyber attacks. Leading independent test labs and analysts rank its products high in NGFW features, AET protection and manageability. Founded in 1990 and acquired by McAfee in 2013, Stonesoft is part of McAfee's Security Connected approach creating the world’s most comprehensive security offering.