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Tufin Technologies, a provider of Security Lifecycle Management solutions for telecom, financial services, energy, transportation and Pharmaceuticals industries, recently announced an expansion in the scope of its Firewall Operations Management Solution Tufin Security Suite 5.3 by offeringcomprehensive support for next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto (News - Alert) Networks.

In a press release, this firewall and business systems expert claimed that it is the first company to offer firewall security management in such a comprehensive package. According to the company management, the move has been taken in response to strong demand from customers and channel partners for support for Palo Alto Networks in the Tufin Security Suite.

Tufin is known for its award-winning products- SecureTrack and SecureChange Workflow which help security operations teams to manage change and perform reliable audits while dramatically reducing manual, repetitive tasks through automation. According to Tufin Palo Alto Networks customers can now benefit from improved management, policy analysis and reporting found in the Tufin solution.

The new Tufin SecureTrack makes it easier to manage next-generation firewalls and meet auditing and compliance requirements. In a wide variety of views, policy analysis queries, and compliance audit reports, SecureTrack uniquely enables security teams to identify firewall policy rules according to advanced, application-layer identification technology.

Tufin also announced that a joint demonstration of the support of Palo Alto Networks firewalls will be held next week at the RSA (News - Alert) Conference 2011 in San Francisco – in Tufin’s Booth No. 2551, and in Palo Alto Networks’ Booth No. 2145.

Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewalls are unique in the industry in their ability to see and control applications, users and content – not just ports, IP addresses and packets. Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewalls enable enterprises to create granular, business-relevant security policies and safely control applications instead of the block-or-nothing approach offered by traditional port-blocking firewalls.

“Tufin SecureTrack is a highly complementary management layer to our core value proposition, which is to help organizations gain visibility and control of applications, users, and content within their networks. Our mutual customers can gain more robust operations management, auditing and compliance for their network infrastructure,” Palo Alto Networks VP Punit Minocha maintained in a statement.

SecureTrack’s comprehensive support for Palo Alto Networks also includes:

• Support for both physical and virtual systems, including shared objects between virtual sytems
• Support for Palo Alto Networks Panorama central management system’s global rules and objects that are shared among multiple
• physical or virtual firewalls.
• Real-time change tracking of Palo Alto Networks’ content updates.

So far as the availability and pricing is concerned, Tufin announced that SecureTrack support for next-generation firewalls, including Palo Alto Networks, is available immediately. Pricing starts at $20,000, the company said in the release.

Last year, the company has been positioned No.2 in the 2010 Deloitte Israel Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Israel.