Aviatrix Launches Distributed Cloud Firewall

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The ‘Distributed Cloud Firewall’ is the newest advancement in network security for cloud settings from Aviatrix, a top developer of secure cloud networking solutions. With its “improved scalability, performance, operational simplicity, agility, and cost-efficiency,” this technology would transform how businesses approach network security in the cloud.

Aviatrix’s newly released Distributed Cloud Firewall integrates distributed inspection and policy enforcement right into the cloud network. Instead of requiring traffic to be sent to centralized firewalls as is the case with conventional methods, Aviatrix’s firewall solution incorporates these vital security features into the normal course of application traffic. As a result, there is no longer a need for complicated traffic redirection, and any multicloud system may enforce policies easily.

Steve Mullaney, President and CEO of Aviatrix
“Bolting on-premise firewalls onto a cloud network and trying to direct traffic to them is not effective for cloud, it’s just not how the cloud operates,” said Steve Mullaney, President and CEO of Aviatrix.

The Distributed Cloud Firewall from Aviatrix has a centralized programmable interface that would make it possible to create and deploy rules wherever they are required. This is one of its main features. Instead of using static IP addresses, the policy building process uses dynamic cloud workload identification tags and characteristics. To effectively enforce regulations, the company’s cloud-aware solution programmatically configures native cloud services while abstracting the intricacies of multicloud settings.

Aviatrix’s invention was hailed by Jason Simpson, Vice President of Engineering at Choice Hotels, who said, “This is more cloud native than native cloud firewalls. For us, it changes everything. By dispersing inspection and enforcement throughout the cloud network, where the traffic naturally flows, rather than requiring traffic redirection to centralized inspection hubs, Aviatrix has changed the equation for network security in the cloud. The cloud-native, unique Aviatrix policy authoring interface abstracts multicloud differences and utilizes cloud-native tags and characteristics to construct policies.”

Network Security Integration into the Cloud Fabric

Modern cloud application workloads, which are characterized by containerization, ephemeral nature, direct-to-Internet, and service mesh network connectivity, would present issues that the Distributed Cloud Firewall tackles. Traditional centralized and agent-based network security strategies can be inadequate for these workloads because they depend on native cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) services and API gateways. Additionally, the dynamic nature of these application settings would make it impossible to implement IP-based restrictions since IP addresses are continually changing.

Aviatrix’s Distributed Cloud Firewall presents a novel architecture that allows a perimeterless cloud environment to satisfy the requirements of the cloud operating model. The importance of this strategy was stressed by Scott Raynovich, Founder and Principal Analyst of Futuriom, who said, “The best way to achieve this is to distribute security by embedding it into the fabric of the entire cloud network, to do security everywhere.”

An efficient distributed cloud firewall must adhere to the cloud operational model, provide consistent orchestration across multicloud environments, integrate distributed enforcement into the natural flow of cloud traffic, and consolidate advanced security services. By integrating inspection and policy enforcement into the native cloud architecture, enabling centralized policy formulation, supporting cloud-native network and security orchestration, and delivering a full range of sophisticated security services, Aviatrix’s solution would satisfy these criteria.

The necessity to reimagine network security for the cloud was emphasized by Steve Mullaney, President and CEO of Aviatrix. “Bolting on-premise firewalls onto a cloud network and trying to direct traffic to them is not effective for cloud, it’s just not how the cloud operates,” he said. The cloud is scale-out by design, nimble, dynamic, and without boundaries. To create a genuine zero-trust, agile environment, network security must come next. It must be dispersed across the network and incorporated inside it.”

The Distributed Cloud Firewall from Aviatrix is anticipated to significantly alter the state of cloud security, enabling enterprises to confidently use the cloud. According to the company, businesses may benefit from a genuine zero-trust architecture while preserving agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness thanks to Aviatrix’s seamless integration of network security into the cloud fabric.