Case Study: Fortune 500 Media Company achieves $2M annual cost savings and automated multi-vendor firewall management with FireMon

Fortune 500 Media Company - Customer Case Study

Fortune 500 Media Company — operating in over 80 US markets — faced a major ransomware attack that left them without firewall access and backups and forced a rapid full-rule cleanup across 400+ decentralized firewalls. They selected FireMon and its automated security assessments & cleanup (continuous compliance, change automation, and risk management solutions) to gain centralized visibility, automate lifecycle policy management, and simplify audits across a multi-vendor environment.

FireMon implemented continuous compliance checks, automated custom policy reporting, and automated workflows for rule review, recertification, and removal via a single pane-of-glass console across Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler devices. The deployment reduced risk by removing overly permissive rules, saved $2M annually versus manual processes, enabled management of 400+ firewalls without hiring 6 additional FTEs, simplified audits, and sped remediation.