Cloud services are now widely adopted in every industry, and have been proven to streamline operations and foster innovation. Yet, as the cloud landscape evolves, so do the complexities and security challenges associated with it. Enter Cloud Next-Generation Firewalls (CNGFW). CNGFWs are fully managed solutions designed to deliver advanced security features as a cloud native service directly from major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, OCI, and Google Cloud. CNGFWs combine the best security efficacy from third party security providers with the convenience, automation, and familiar experience of a cloud native service.

Embracing Cloud-Native Integration

Cloud environments are dynamic and diverse, with each cloud provider offering a unique suite of services and security features. Achieving consistent and effective security across these platforms requires solutions that can seamlessly integrate with native cloud services. Cloud NGFW embodies this cloud-native philosophy by embedding itself within the cloud ecosystem, harnessing the innate capabilities of each platform to enhance security while aligning seamlessly with modern cloud strategies.

Key Benefits of Integration by Platform

The integration of Cloud NGFW with major cloud platforms offers several key benefits:

• Enhanced Visibility and Monitoring: Cloud NGFW leverages robust logging features available in platforms like Azure Monitor and AWS CloudTrail, providing comprehensive visibility into network security events and malicious activities. This enables security teams to monitor network traffic, detect anomalies, and respond to threats in real-time, fortifying the organization's security posture.
• Streamlined Policy Management: Centralized management across cloud and on-premises firewalls facilitates the management of security policies across multiple cloud environments. This ensures consistent enforcement of security policies, minimizing the risk of misconfigurations and enhancing overall protection.
• Advanced Threat Protection: By leveraging the best-in-class scale and infrastructure of the major public cloud providers, combined with Palo Alto Networks’ leading threat protection technology, Cloud NGFW performs deep packet inspection to detect and block sophisticated threats. This integration ensures exceptional threat protection at scale, providing granular control over security policies and optimizing operational efficiency in the cloud-native environment.

Elevating Threat Protection with Best-in-Class Security

Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls for the 11th straight year, reflecting its best-in-class security capabilities. This leadership is built on cutting-edge technology, including the industry’s only machine learning (ML) powered NGFW. This technology stops known, unknown, and zero-day cyber threats by controlling network traffic based on applications identified with our patented App-ID technology.

By integrating with Advanced Threat Prevention, Cloud NGFW blocks more unknown command-and-control traffic and zero-day exploits in real-time than traditional IPS solutions. Its Advanced URL Filtering detection capabilities, powered by Inline Deep Learning, allow Cloud NGFW for AWS to prevent known and unknown malicious URLs long before other vendors. With DNS Security, we offer the most comprehensive threat coverage against DNS-layer threats. Finally, WildFire addresses the rise in sophisticated malware, stopping more evasive malware than ever before.

Simplifying Security Operations

With Cloud NGFW, customers do not need to manage the underlying firewall infrastructure or the operational aspects of the service. Instead, they can focus on managing security rules and enabling predefined policies tailored to their specific needs. This management model reduces the complexity of security operations, allowing security teams to streamline their workflows and respond to incidents more swiftly. By offloading the operational burden, customers can achieve operational efficiency and even reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) in the long run while maintaining robust security posture in the cloud-native era.

Redefining Cloud Security for the Modern Era

Cloud NGFW's advanced cloud-native integration with native services across AWS, Azure, OCI, and Google Cloud represents a paradigm shift in cloud security. By aligning seamlessly with modern cloud strategies, Cloud NGFW enhances security capabilities and optimizes operational efficiency in today's dynamic cloud environments. As enterprises navigate the complexities of the multi-cloud landscape, embracing the power of cloud-native security with Cloud NGFW is essential to securing their future in the cloud.