Case Study: State of Utah achieves automated, months-to-minutes firewall changes with AlgoSec

State of Utah Network Security Management Breaks the Service Bottleneck

The State of Utah’s Department of Technology Services (DTS) provides IT infrastructure for the executive branch—supporting 20,000 desktops, 2,400 servers, 1,300 online services and defending against hundreds of millions of daily intrusion attempts—but managing more than forty firewall pairs and hundreds of devices had become a major bottleneck. Firewall rule requests consumed roughly 70% of staff time, producing slow response times, frequent human errors, multi‑month projects, and three‑month onboarding for new employees.

DTS implemented AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer and FireFlow to automate firewall management, deliver actionable compliance reporting, and streamline change workflows. Deployed in weeks, the solution cut large rule implementations from months to minutes, eliminated manual errors and rework, improved knowledge sharing, accelerated onboarding from three months to two weeks (an 80% reduction), and delivered faster, more secure service to state agencies.

State of Utah