Case Study: SIX achieves streamlined application-related firewall management and improved security with Tufin SecureApp

SIX Group First to Manage Application-Related Firewall Changes from a Business Perspective

SIX, the operator of Switzerland’s financial market infrastructure, was struggling to manage hundreds of application-related firewall changes using a manual Microsoft Access–based process that was slow, error-prone and exposed the organization to security risk. To address this, SIX turned to Tufin and its SecureApp solution to manage application connectivity from a business-process perspective instead of hunting through dispersed connectivity data.

Tufin’s SecureApp enabled SIX to define, update, monitor and remove applications without parsing long firewall rule lists, streamlining deployments, migrations and decommissions and improving communication between application and network teams. The implementation delivered dramatic operational efficiency gains, continuous compliance and a cleaner firewall policy—improving visibility and control and, in SIX’s words, reducing potential threats to a minimum.

SIX

Christoph Littwin

Head Telecommunications