Securing traditional and cloud-based data centers with next-generation firewalls

As organizations evolve from traditional data centers to virtualized and cloud computing environments, security architectures must support the changing set of requirements. This includes not only addressing fundamental tablestakes functionality such as safe application enablement, threat protection and flexible networking integration, but also new challenges brought on by the virtualized infrastructure, and the dynamic and automated nature of the virtualized environment. These include having visibility into virtual machine traffic that may not leave the virtual infrastructure, the ability to tie security policies to virtual machine instantiation and movement, and orchestration of security policies in lock step with application workflows.

This white paper describes the challenges of virtualized data center and cloud computing environments, and how to address them with next-generation firewalls. Complete the form below to access it.