Organizations Empowered with Greater Control, Unified Visibility, and Continuous Compliance Across Distributed and Segmented Networks

Tufin, the leader in network security posture management, today announced it has teamed with Akamai to introduce a new joint security solution. By integrating Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, the collaboration combines workload-level enforcement with centralized policy visibility to deliver modern Zero Trust security to the enterprise.

Modern organizations rely on an increasingly complex mix of firewalls, cloud environments, SASE platforms, SD-WAN infrastructure, and Microsegmentation technologies to protect critical assets. Yet the evolving threat landscape continues to drive urgency. As AI-driven and agentic AI systems increasingly automate application behavior and infrastructure operations, networks are also changing faster and with less direct human oversight. Once attackers gain an initial foothold, they frequently exploit access to move laterally across workloads, applications, and servers. Flat or loosely segmented networks, along with overly permissive internal policies, can allow ransomware and other threats to spread rapidly. Microsegmentation helps limit internal access, enforce least-privilege communication, and contain breaches, making it a cornerstone of Zero Trust security.

At the same time, enterprises face operational challenges in implementing Microsegmentation alongside existing security layers. This challenge becomes even more pronounced as agentic AI accelerates infrastructure changes and short-lived configuration drift can create real security exposure before teams can respond. Without centralized visibility and governance, segmentation policies can become fragmented across multiple enforcement points, reducing effectiveness and increasing risk. In fact, recent research shows that while 90% of organizations have adopted some form of segmentation, only 35% have implemented Microsegmentation broadly across their networks.

The Tufin and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation solution solves this by unifying segmentation policy into a single control plane. This simplifies policy management, enhances visibility, and ensures continuous compliance, helping enterprises achieve the full benefits of Zero Trust across their hybrid and distributed network environments.

“Microsegmentation is a critical component of Zero Trust architectures, but without centralized visibility and compliance, it can quickly create operational complexity,” said Raymond Brancato, Tufin CEO. “As organizations enter an era of increasingly automated and AI-driven infrastructure, combining Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with Tufin will give them the ability to connect segmentation enforcement with broader network security workflows, using the AI-powered Tufin platform to ensure consistent policy management, enforcement, compliance, and security posture.”

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation enforces Zero Trust principles at the workload level, limiting lateral movement and reducing the spread of attacks across data centers and cloud environments. Tufin extends these enforcement capabilities by delivering centralized visibility into segmentation policies alongside other network security controls - such as firewalls, cloud security, SASE, and Microsegmentation - via its Unified Control Plane. This empowers security teams to quickly and efficiently analyze, govern, and audit policy changes across the extended enterprise.

With the solution, organizations gain the ability to see Guardicore segmentation policies alongside firewalls, cloud security controls, and other enforcement layers. Security and compliance teams can visualize segmentation strategies, analyze policy behavior, and ensure that segmentation policies align with current enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.

“Akamai is committed to helping organizations implement practical Zero Trust strategies that reduce risk without slowing innovation,” added Domingo Tellez, VP Global Sales, Enterprise Security at Akamai. “The combination of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with Tufin offers customers greater visibility and governance over segmentation policies, making it easier and more efficient to scale Zero Trust security initiatives across today’s growing network environments.”

Solution capabilities include:

• Centralized segmentation visibility across hybrid infrastructure, including Akamai Guardicore Segmentation policies, firewalls, and cloud security controls
• Policy analysis and querying to identify overly permissive rules, misconfigurations, and potential exposure risks
• Alignment between intended and enforced segmentation policies to validate security design and detect policy drift
• Comprehensive change tracking and audit history to support continuous compliance and regulatory readiness
• Integrated compliance workflows that streamline policy validation and troubleshooting across security domains

By combining segmentation enforcement with centralized visibility and policy compliance, organizations reduce risk exposure while improving operational efficiency. Security teams can deploy and modify services faster, with greater confidence that segmentation policies remain aligned with enterprise standards. Organizations can fully incorporate Microsegmentation into their broader enterprise security governance strategy.

The joint solution is available now. For more information on how Tufin and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation can work together to improve your organization’s security posture, please visit: https://www.tufin.com/supported-devices-and-platforms/tufin-support-for-akamai-guardicore.

About Tufin

Tufin helps enterprises govern and secure connectivity across today’s complex multi-vendor networks. As the leader in network security posture management, Tufin provides the trusted control layer organizations need to understand exposure, automate policy changes safely, and maintain continuous security posture across on-premises, cloud, SASE, microsegmentation, and hybrid environments. Built on customer-proven network automation playbooks and the industry’s only Dynamic Network Connectivity Graph, Tufin is bringing Multi-Vendor Agentic Network Security to the enterprise — helping organizations move from visibility to governed, AI-driven action. For more information, please visit www.tufin.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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As organizations enter an era of increasingly automated and AI-driven infrastructure, combining Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with Tufin will give them the ability to connect segmentation enforcement with broader network security workflows.