The appliance sprawl problem
Traditional security puts a firewall at every site: headquarters, branches, data centers, cloud VPCs. Each box needs licensing, patching and rule management. Policies drift apart over time.
What FWaaS is
Firewall as a Service delivers next-generation firewall capabilities from the network itself. Traffic from your sites and clouds passes through Peer1ix FWaaS on the fabric, where policy is applied centrally.
Capabilities
- Application-aware rules.
- Intrusion prevention.
- URL and threat filtering.
- Logging and reporting.
Benefits
- Consistency: one rule set for all locations.
- Simplicity: no firewall hardware at each site.
- Scale: capacity grows with your traffic.
- Proximity: inspection at edge locations near users.
Getting started
Begin with one use case — such as secure internet breakout for branches — then extend to inter-site and cloud traffic.
