Cloud Firewall

What is Cloud Firewall?

Cloud Firewall also called FWaaS, enables organizations to eliminate firewall appliances and simplify their IT infrastructure. Centralized management from a single console enables organizations to eliminate the challenges of change control, patch management, coordinating outage windows, and policy management associated with NGFW appliances while delivering consistent policies across the organization wherever users connect.

Benefits of using a Cloud Firewall:

Proxy-based architecture — This design dynamically inspects traffic for all users, applications, devices, and locations. It natively inspects SSL/TLS traffic—at scale—to detect malware hidden in encrypted traffic. And it enables granular firewall policies spanning multiple layers based on network app, cloud app, domain name (FQDN), and URL. A proxy-based architecture is required to stop today’s advanced threats.

Cloud IPS — A cloud-based intrusion prevention system (IPS) delivers always-on threat protection and coverage, regardless of connection type or location. It inspects all user traffic on and off-network, even hard-to-inspect SSL traffic, to restore full visibility into user, app, and internet connections.

DNS security and control — As the first line of defense, a cloud-based firewall protects users from reaching malicious domains. It optimizes DNS resolution to provide a better user experience and cloud application performance, which is especially critical for CDN-based apps. And it provides granular controls to detect and prevent DNS tunneling.

Visibility and simplified management — A cloud-based firewall delivers real-time visibility, control, and immediate policy enforcement across the platform. It logs every session in detail, and uses advanced analytics to correlate events and provide insight into threats and vulnerabilities for all users, applications, and locations from a single console.

Cloud firewalls integrate easily with cloud infrastructure.

Multiple cloud deployments can be protected at once.