Tufin

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Tufin
Company type Private
IndustryNetwork Security
Founded2005;19 years ago (2005)
Founders
  • Ruvi Kitov
  • Reuven Harrison
Headquarters Boston, MA
ProductsTufin Orchestration Suite: SecureTrack, SecureChange, SecureApp, SecureCloud, Tufin Cloud
Owner
  • Turn/River Capital
  • (2022–present)
Number of employees
533 (in 2020)
Website www.tufin.com

Tufin is a security policy management company founded in 2005 that specializes in the automation of security policy changes across hybrid platforms and security and compliance. [1] The Tufin Orchestration Suite supports next-generation firewalls, network layer firewalls, routers, network switches, load balancers, web proxies, private and public cloud platforms and micro-services.

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On August 25, 2022, Turn/River Capital completed the acquisition of Tufin. [2]

History

Until its initial public offering in 2019, Tufin was privately funded. [3]

On April 6, 2022, Tufin announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by software-focused investment firm Turn/River Capital. The agreement valued the company at $570 million and was an all-cash deal. Since the closing of the transaction, Tufin is a private company. [4]

Products

Tufin develops and markets the Tufin Orchestration Suite [5] which consists of:

The company releases updates to Tufin Orchestration Suite each quarter. [10]

The Suite is designed for large enterprises, along with managed security service providers (MSSP) and IT security auditors. [11] Tufin products help security teams implement and maintain their security policy on all of their firewalls, routers and network switches. [12] They accelerate service delivery through network change automation and expedite the process of compliance audits for security standards such as PCI DSS, NERC and Sarbanes Oxley. [13] Tufin products also help companies to manage and automate the daily configuration changes to network security devices. [14]

Innovation

Tufin's innovation includes several technologies, such as the Automatic Policy Generator which refines security rules based on network traffic, [15] methods for automating security policy management [16] and the concept of managing network security policies from an application scope. [17]

Partnerships

Other network security vendors provide operations management, auditing and change automation for Tufin products. Tufin technology partners include Check Point, Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, [18] Stonesoft, [19] F5 Networks, [20] VMware, Zscaler, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, BMC, ServiceNow, Puppet Labs and others. [21]

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