"The cloud is perimeterless, agile, dynamic and scale-out by design. Network security must follow, (and) it must be distributed and embedded into the network to deliver a true zero trust, agile environment. Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall is going to dramatically change the cloud security game for our customers and save them a lot of money in the process."
What Is a Distributed Cloud Firewall?
A distributed cloud firewall provides organizations with everything they need to secure their cloud environments, Aviatrix noted.It meets the following requirements:- Features inspection and policy enforcement embedded into a native cloud infrastructure and natural application communication flows, ensuring that all traffic is seen and does not have to be redirected to centralized inspection points
- Offers cloud-aware policy creation and uses cloud-native workload identity tags and attributes to determine how and where policies are enforced
- Promotes zero trust operations by providing visibility and control, auto-scaling to match application requirements and programmable with industry standard infrastructure-as-code automation and included in development and security operations (DevSecOps) continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
- Supports native cloud APIs for cloud network and cloud security orchestration
- Separates networking and security duties and delivers micro-segmentation, network isolation, threat detection and mitigation, anomaly detection, vulnerability scanning and other security services