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Santa Clara, Calif., April 16, 2025 – As enterprises grapple with the escalating security challenges posed by today’s complex cloud landscape — intensified by the rise of new threats and a growing proliferation of threat actors — Aviatrix®, the cloud network security company, has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2025 SC Awards for its Aviatrix Cloud Firewall solution. This recognition underscores the company’s focus on securing cloud and multicloud environments, addressing the urgent need for scalable, operationally efficient defenses that help organizations mitigate risk while managing complexity and cost.
With the growing prevalence of identity-based attacks and the increasing risk of data exfiltration through unmonitored egress traffic, enterprises need more than basic cloud-native tools to maintain security and control. Aviatrix Cloud Firewall serves over 500 leading enterprises across industries — including financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing — by delivering advanced security capabilities that go beyond traditional provider-specific NAT gateways. While those gateways offer limited visibility and lack key protections, Aviatrix integrates essential functions like URL filtering, geo-blocking, and advanced threat detection directly into the NAT process. The solution deploys rapidly without requiring re-architecture, scales automatically with traffic demands, and enables consistent policy enforcement across global, regional, or single-application environments. Its flat-rate billing model also helps organizations manage unpredictable cloud costs, driving an average 25% annual savings compared to native solutions—all while strengthening defenses against sophisticated threats like Salt Typhoon, cloud service providers’ policy shifts like Azure’s outbound access change, and regional governmental compliance changes.
“Cyber threats are evolving exponentially, and landmark investments like Google’s proposed Wiz acquisition underscore the growing enterprise demand for network monitoring and security. Organizations need the ability to go beyond scanning for risk, to taking remediation and preventative actions with a solution like Aviatrix,” said Scott Leatherman, Chief Marketing Officer at Aviatrix. “Our solution simplifies security policy enforcement while enhancing visibility, control, and enabling businesses to maintain resilience and performance. Our recognition as a finalist in the 2025 SC Awards reflects our dedication to empowering organizations to overcome the intricacies of cloud network security in multicloud or hybrid environments.”
Aviatrix’s innovative platform offers several key features designed to meet the evolving needs of organizations:
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): An optional fully-managed solution that employs AI-driven operations for proactive threat detection and cost optimization. Aviatrix Cloud Firewall continuously analyzes traffic behavior to identify anomalies and potential exfiltration attempts, blocking threats before they impact the business.
- Rapid, Automated Deployment: Integrates into existing cloud networks, scaling automatically with traffic demands. Aviatrix Cloud Firewall deploys natively across cloud providers with zero downtime, enabling security teams to stand up protections quickly—without the complexity of manual routing or third-party appliances.
- Centralized Policy Management: Merges traditional network security with cloud capabilities, simplifying security integration while enhancing visibility. With Aviatrix Cloud Firewall, teams gain centralized control over security policies for both east-west and egress traffic across multicloud environments, reducing misconfigurations and closing dangerous visibility gaps.
- Dynamic Scalability: Adapts to business needs with predictable costs, addressing operational overhead challenges. Aviatrix Cloud Firewall automatically scales to meet surges in traffic while maintaining consistent enforcement of security policies—keeping performance high and costs foreseeable, even under heavy load.
- Cloud Egress Aviatrix Cloud Firewall provides robust protection against data theft, addressing security gaps that traditional ingress solutions are often blind to. By securing egress traffic, it mitigates threats before they can exfiltrate sensitive data from the network. Additionally, it optimizes egress fees, reducing costs associated with data transfer out of cloud environments with a predictable fixed cost.
- Kubernetes Firewall Aviatrix Kubernetes Firewall integrates with Kubernetes environments to provide identity-based security, advanced network visibility, and seamless hybrid and multicloud connectivity. Complementing traditional CNIs and service meshes, Aviatrix enables enterprises to enforce zero trust security, manage egress policies, and solve IP conflicts between Kubernetes and existing infrastructure, ensuring a scalable and secure cloud-native architecture.
“The evolution of Aviatrix Cloud Firewall to include Kubernetes compliance and security, the gamification within the UX to improve security daily, and being 100% cloud native with a multicloud data and control plane makes Aviatrix very unique in a legacy market that is not evolving as fast as the security threats,” said Leatherman.
“Being named an SC Awards finalist is a recognition not only of technical innovation, but of a shared commitment to making the digital world safer,” said Tom Spring, Senior Editorial Director, SC Media. “It’s inspiring to see how this year’s community of finalists—across identity, cloud, data protection, and beyond—is pushing forward together, united by purpose.”
The 2025 SC Awards entries were evaluated across 33 specialty categories by a distinguished panel of judges, comprised of cybersecurity professionals, industry leaders, and members of the CyberRisk Alliance CISO community, representing sectors such as healthcare, financial services, education, and technology.
This latest recognition adds to Aviatrix’s growing momentum in 2025, following a Gold Globee® Award for Cybersecurity, SiliconANGLE Media’s Tech Innovation CUBEd Award for Most Innovative Security Solution, and top honors from GigaOm as both a ‘Leader’ and ‘Fast Mover’ in its Radar Report for Cloud Network Security.
For more information about the award-winning Aviatrix Cloud Firewall, visit aviatrix.com/cloud-firewall.
About Aviatrix
Aviatrix® is the cloud network security company trusted by more than 500 of the world’s leading enterprises. As cloud infrastructures become more complex and costly, the Aviatrix Cloud Network Security platform gives companies back the power, control, security, and simplicity they need to modernize their cloud strategies. Aviatrix is the only secure networking solution built specifically for the cloud, that ensures companies are ready for AI and what’s next. Combined with the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program, the industry’s leading secure multicloud networking certification, Aviatrix unites cloud, networking, and security teams and unlocks greater potential across any cloud.
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