Virgin Media Partners With Tufin Technologies and Nebulas Solutions Group to Streamline Firewall Management
Market Wire, December, 2009
Tufin Technologies, the leading provider
of Security Lifecycle Management solutions and Nebulas Solutions Group
today announced Virgin Media, as a joint customer. As part of an overall
network infrastructure improvement program Virgin Media turned to Nebulas
Solutions Group to source a more resilient, efficient firewall
infrastructure. Knowing that bloated rule bases are a major source of
inefficiencies Nebulas underwent a rigorous evaluation process and selected
Tufin SecureTrack, to identify obsolete, redundant and unnecessary firewall
rules. By implementing SecureTrack, Nebulas enabled Virgin Media to
enhance Firewall CPU and memory performance by 15 percent and reduce the
management load by 30 percent.
“One of the reasons we chose Nebulas to be our exclusive security partner
is the value they add with product analysis and testing — its views are
based on product integrity not just whether they are resellers for a
particular product,” said Colin Miles, UK Corporate Network Manager, Virgin
Media. “Its assessment of Tufin SecureTrack was spot on — it has
dramatically improved firewall performance, maximized the longevity of our
current infrastructure and given my team back about 30 percent of their
day.”
Virgin Media is the UK’s leading entertainment and communications company,
and employs 20,000 people distributed across 800 UK sites. Virgin Media’s
Check Point and Nokia firewall infrastructure was ageing; some hardware had
been installed for almost a decade and needed updating. Firewalls were
also not running the most up-to-date versions of code, which had a negative
effect on both performance and security. Additionally, a specific cluster
of firewalls in a data centre was experiencing serious stability problems,
which seemed to stem from the firewall rule base, which was double the size
recommended by the firewall vendor. The load on CPU and memory were causing
frequent failures of service and resulted in change windows shifting to
non-business hours to avoid additional downtime, over-extending the
operations team.
Nebulas Solutions reviewed several products to help Virgin Media tackle the
unwieldy rule base and manage it more efficiently in the future
security systems