A merger or acquisition is a massively complicated project that, if not planned and implemented properly, can seriously impact business operations for a long time. This means amending, altering and updating firewall policies to accommodate new connectivity, new applications and often new firewalls crucially, without creating IT security risks or outages. When two companies become one, it is vital that they get on the same page of IT security as they do when merging. Automated security policy management solutions should provide visibility of the entire firewall estate (traditional, NGFW and cloud-based security controls, Software Defined Networks (SDN)”]