Aviatrix this morning announced the availability of Distributed Cloud Firewall, a cloud-native software security product for its Secure Cloud Networking platform. This is a significant release designed to solve the problem of securing networks in the cloud and in traditional enterprise networking environments – at the same time.

The concept behind the Distributed Cloud Firewall is that traditional perimeter firewalls are past their prime, designed for an enterprise networking architecture that came before the cloud. Cloud network connectivity and cloud-based services have changed how application traffic travels, and IT and network managers are struggling with protecting their traditional network traffic and cloud workload traffic at the same time.