Managing complex firewall policies across multi-vendor environments is a persistent challenge for security teams, often leading to misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. To address this, SSNC, an information-protection company, has launched Fire.ONE, the first solution in its Breezeway lineup of secure platforms. Fire.ONE is an AI-based firewall operation automation solution designed to simplify security management, reduce human error, and empower better decision-making through advanced analysis and predictive capabilities, effectively mitigating risks associated with staffing shortages.
Quick Intel
SSNC launches Fire.ONE, an AI-powered firewall operation automation solution.
It automates the entire firewall process from application deployment to policy auditing.
The platform supports multi-vendor environments, including legacy and next-gen firewalls.
AI analyzes firewall rules and traffic to recommend optimized rule sets.
It provides policy verification and consistency analysis with visualized data.
The goal is to reduce operational burden, human error, and security vulnerabilities.
Automating the Firewall Lifecycle
Fire.ONE delivers end-to-end automation, supporting every stage of the firewall policy lifecycle. By integrating with diverse firewall application ecosystems, it streamlines processes from initial application and adaptation to ongoing diagnostics. This ensures seamless operations with minimal manual intervention, significantly reducing the burden on personnel responsible for firewall management. A key feature is its ability to standardize management across different vendor environments, providing a unified interface for heterogeneous security infrastructures.
Leveraging AI for Optimization and Compliance
The platform's core intelligence comes from its AI-driven analysis. It simultaneously examines firewall rules and network traffic to recommend and automatically enforce optimized rule sets, ensuring both efficiency and accuracy. Furthermore, Fire.ONE performs critical policy verification and post-implementation consistency analysis. The results of these analyses are presented through intuitive, visualized data, which strengthens administrative control, enhances transparency, and aids in compliance reporting.
By acting as more than just a simple automation tool, Fire.ONE represents a next-generation approach to security operations. It intelligently innovates organizational workflows by reducing complexity, alleviating operational burdens, and leveraging predictive capabilities. This allows SSNC to deliver on its mission of providing cutting-edge security technologies that enable clients to confidently sustain their business operations in an ever-evolving threat landscape.