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Firewall migration for an energy grid operator.

A grid operator replaced its firewall platform and came out with a smaller, explainable rule base instead of a copy of the old one.

Situation

Years of changes had left a rule base that nobody could fully explain, on a platform that was reaching end of support. Critical infrastructure rules out long outages.

Approach

Analysed which rules were actually used, rebuilt the policy around zones and functions, and migrated in staged cut-overs with documented test and rollback steps.

Result

A rule base that can be reviewed and audited, on a supported platform, with documentation the operations team uses.

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