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Stonesoft and Tufin Deliver Integrated Security Management Capabilities
December 2013 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Stonesoft, a McAfee Group Company, and Tufin Technologies, announced the completion of the first phase of the integration of their management interfaces.
The joint solution combines Stonesoft’s contextual awareness with Tufin’s security policy orchestration to provide joint customers with enhanced network security controls and a more holistic approach to managing increasingly complex, dynamic, multi-vendor networks. Tufin is the first vendor to integrate with Stonesoft’s new Security Management Center API.
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 makes 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 centralised 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 analyse 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.
Availability
Management integration is available with Stonesoft NGFW release 5.6 and Tufin R13-3. Stonesoft 5.6 and Tufin R13-3 are both immediately available.
