IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING
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Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall
Strengthens and Simplifies
Multi-Cloud Network Security
EMA IMPACT BRIEF
Aviatrix Introduces New Multi-Cloud
Security Solution
Multi-cloud networking vendor Aviatrix introduced Distributed Cloud
Firewall, a network security solution that inspects traffic and enforces
policies across all application paths within a multi-cloud architecture,
eliminating the need for redirecting traffic to centralized firewalls. With
cloud-aware policy creation, programmable interfaces, and support for multi-
cloud environments, Distributed Cloud Firewall helps cloud infrastructure
teams scale network security, simplify operations, and optimize costs.
The Distributed Cloud Firewall
In today's multi-cloud architectures, organizations often struggle to unify
network security. Some companies use the firewall solutions that individual
cloud providers offer, but these firewalls are proprietary to a single cloud
provider, making it difficult to manage security policy across providers. In
fact, EMA research recently found that only 12% of multi-cloud enterprises
believe it is very easy to manage security policies across multiple clouds with
consistency.
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Other enterprises will deploy virtual versions of their incumbent data center
firewall into their clouds. However, these virtual appliances are usually
centrally deployed, with all east/west and north/south traffic in a given
cloud location routed through it for inspection. This design choice can add
complexity and degrade performance.
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EMA, "Multi-Cloud Networking: Connecting and Securing the Future," January 2023.
