The safety and security of everything is important, be it the person, places, objects, tools or data. It is and should be one of the most primary concerns of any enterprise or organization. With Internet now being used as a modern tool for all the communication and data storage or transfer, it has become imperative that the organization should take all the necessary steps to safeguard and protect it against all the possible or probable threats. The advancements in the information technology at one hand has allowed new possibilities for success, and on the other hand has opened new doors of threats, from which the protection should be taken prophylactically.

The world has advanced a lot and is considering firewall migration, while some IT security experts are till the date trapped with the conventional methods of handling ports and protocols. But the modern and state of the art organizations should have newer security appliances so as to analyze, control and secure the applications or systems accordingly. Just as the hardware and tools should be upgraded, so should be the security protocol. As for the firewall, when one plans to switch it or replace it, there are few a steps, which should be followed, but most importantly, it is imperative to figure out why this translocation is so critical and important. 

• For a successful translocation, the 7 layers of OSI should be worked well, from the level of the physical connectivity or connection to that of the application.

Here is a guideline of how to make firewall migration without getting a headache or without any problem. 

1. Be acquainted with all the latest trends in the technology so as to identify the shortcomings in the previous and the advancement in the new selection. 

2. Next thing to look out for is to have a detailed and thorough review of the current configuration and settings. And the key should be to change one element at a time; therefore, if you go wrong, you can easily switch it back to previous. 

3. Another thing is to know if your current configuration has the need for rewriting or the use of the syntax right now or not? 

4. Once done, the best thing to do is to go for an acceptance test. 

5. Then Declare the frozen zones and configuration translation. 

6. Then migration takes place. 

7. And at the end monitoring is important.