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Netskope Updates SASE Platform with Advanced Cloud Firewall Capabilities

Netskope Cloud Firewall helps customers simplify operations, prevent threats and provide consistent firewall coverage worldwide—anywhere users are located.

September 13, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

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Netskope, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of secure access service edge (SASE) solutions, announced enhancements to its Netskope Cloud Firewall, the firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) component of its converged SASE platform. The new security capabilities for Netskope Cloud Firewall help customers simplify operations, prevent threats and provide consistent firewall coverage worldwide—anywhere users are located.

As businesses are rapidly adopting SASE architecture to enable hybrid work, they must safeguard data wherever it moves, support digital transformation efforts and realize better efficiency and return-on-investment from their technology. The Netskope converged SASE platform includes Netskope’s Intelligent Security Service Edge (SSE) and Borderless SD-WAN capabilities, which are crucial to providing optimized access and zero trust-based security needed in today’s technology stack.

Netskope says the need for Cloud Firewall is urgent, as traditional firewalls are no longer capable of addressing requirements for outbound security policy in hybrid work environments. More enterprises are also looking to obtain SASE capabilities from a single source to reduce vendor and tool sprawl. Gartner notes that by 2025, 65% of enterprises will have consolidated individual SASE components into one or two explicitly partnered SASE vendors, up from 15% in 2021.

Flexibility and Choice in Firewall Coverage

According to Netskope, Netskope Cloud Firewall, which harnesses Netskope NewEdge infrastructure for fast delivery and smooth performance, offers customers flexibility and choice in FWaaS deployment options. Netskope Cloud Firewall is designed to provide cloud-delivered firewall egress protection for users and offices around the world and reduces administrative effort by applying firewall policy in the cloud instead of at the edge.

With new advanced security capabilities, Netskope Cloud Firewall:

  • Delivers firewall app control which enables precise enablement over traffic that is allowed, providing stronger protection and coverage when compared to standard port and protocol policies alone
  • Disrupts attacks which leverage Domain Name System (DNS) tunnels and blocks connections to malicious domains, protecting any user, device, and location with Layer 7 inspection against these threats
  • Reduces the total cost of managing outbound security policy by consolidating administration for web and non-web traffic from a SASE architecture, rather than at the network edge
  • Protects branch office networks and secures SD-WAN deployments
  • Works together with Netskope Next Gen SWG to protect users from cloud threats and control web activity
  • Improves security overall, preventing the dangerous compromises on coverage, application visibility, and network performance frequently seen in legacy infrastructure

“From cap-ex headaches, to compromises on security, it’s clear legacy firewalls can no longer support the demands of a cloud-first, hybrid work world,” said John Martin, chief product officer at Netskope, in a statement. “We built Netskope Cloud Firewall to satisfy a wider range of use cases specific to direct-to-internet environments, relieve administrative burdens, and block threats everywhere users are located.”

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Tagged With: Cloud Firewall, Firewall-as-a-service, FWaaS, Netskope, SASE

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