To help our prospects in accelerating their digital transformation journey and defending their cloud atmosphere towards threats, Microsoft is dedicated to giving prospects the absolute best choices for securing their functions. To speed up that dedication, we’re excited to announce the preview of Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) for Azure.
Cloud NGFW for Azure is Palo Alto Networks NGFW delivered as a managed service on Microsoft Azure. It allows you to simply make the most of Palo Alto Networks best-in-class community safety capabilities on Azure, and you’ll handle it utilizing both Palo Alto Networks Panorama coverage administration answer or instantly from the Azure portal. Cloud NGFW for Azure combines the scalability and reliability of Microsoft Azure with Palo Alto Networks deep experience in community safety.
“At Microsoft, we are dedicated to ensuring that Microsoft Azure is the most trusted and secure cloud platform. With the preview release of the Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW for Azure, we are pleased to expand our ecosystem of native ISV solutions and provide customers and developers with more options to meet their security needs. This collaboration between Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft combines the scalability and reliability of Azure with Palo Alto Networks expertise to help safeguard our customers against the latest threats.”—Julia Liuson President, Microsoft Developer Division at Microsoft.
“More and more of our customers are running their business critical applications in Azure and are looking to us to help keep those workloads secure. With Cloud NGFW for Azure we are excited to combine Palo Alto Networks best-in-class security with the scalability and reliability of Azure to provide our mutual customers the ability to run their applications with confidence. As a managed Azure Native ISV service, we are proud to deliver the ease of use customers expect from a cloud native experience.”—Lee Klarich, Chief Product Officer, Palo Alto Networks.
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall is out there on Azure
Palo Alto Networks is a pacesetter in cloud safety and gives next-generation cybersecurity to hundreds of consumers globally, throughout all sectors. With the combination of Cloud NGFW for Azure into the Azure ecosystem we’re delivering an built-in expertise and empowering a rising ecosystem of builders and prospects to assist shield their organizations on Azure.
Cloud NGFW for Azure is obtainable by way of Azure Marketplace and provides most of the identical capabilities as Palo Alto Networks {hardware} firewalls and virtualized next-generation firewalls as a managed service, making it simply scalable for cloud environments.
We are excited to work with Palo Alto Networks to offer highly effective capabilities to Azure prospects, together with:
- Security: Palo Alto Networks gives a wealthy set of safety features due to its distinctive machine studying (ML) powered NGFW. Cloud NGFW for Azure makes use of AI and ML behind the scenes to detect and cease recognized, unknown, and zero-day threats, enabling prospects to remain forward of refined adversaries. This superior expertise has allowed Palo Alto Networks to dam practically 5 billion occasions every day, demonstrating the effectiveness of this answer in offering sturdy safety to prospects.
- Ease of Use: Cloud NGFW for Azure is designed to be extremely simple to make use of, due to its Azure-native ISV Service structure. This allows prospects to obtain and deploy the answer instantly from the Azure portal in just some minutes, offering on the spot safety towards cyber threats. The answer can be very simple to function as Palo Alto Networks takes care of scaling, resilience, and software program updates. Furthermore, Cloud NGFW for Azure integrates seamlessly with Azure Virtual vast space community (WAN) deployments, enabling prospects to guard site visitors throughout their complete community. This integration gives prospects with the agility and suppleness they should handle their cloud safety whereas specializing in their core enterprise goals.
- Consistent Management from On-Prem to Cloud: Cloud NGFW for Azure is built-in with their Panorama coverage administration answer. This mixture provides a bunch of advantages to our mutual prospects. Firstly, it allows seamless safety coverage extension from on-prem to Azure, simplifying operations and lowering administrative workload and whole price of possession. More importantly, this integration enforces the identical excessive requirements of safety within the cloud, guaranteeing that prospects’ cloud environments are safe and guarded towards cyber threats. Additionally, integration gives centralized visibility, offering worthwhile insights into the threats on their community from on-prem environments to the cloud. This allows prospects to handle their safety insurance policies by way of their current Panorama console, streamlining administration, permitting their cloud groups to deal with software migration and new software growth.
Do extra with much less
We have invested in a deeply built-in expertise with Palo Alto Networks on Azure together with among the key capabilities listed under that will help you do extra with much less.
Seamless finish consumer expertise
We collaborated carefully with Palo Alto Networks to develop Cloud NGFW for Azure, and examined it with our joint prospects. Cloud NGFW for Azure gives a seamless and simplified finish consumer expertise for Cloud NGFW for Azure by integrating the deployment, administration, billing, and help of the Palo Alto Networks answer on Azure, out there through Azure Marketplace.
Cloud NGFW for Azure additionally gives built-in billing with Azure subscription invoicing, deep integrations with Azure providers for role-based entry management (RBAC) and id administration, and a unified help mannequin. This service offers the consumer consistency in efficiency and safety throughout their portfolio of on-prem and Azure cloud apps through the use of the identical safety answer and configurations all over the place.
Deploy in minutes
Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW is deeply built-in into the Azure ecosystem. Through this deep integration, customers can provision a brand new Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall in a matter of minutes, to allow them to rapidly safe their Azure functions.
Run the place you need
Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW for Azure could be deployed into each Virtual Networks and Virtual WAN hubs, and built-in with Azure Key Vault so even encrypted communications could be inspected for safety. Cloud NGFW for Azure could be deployed into your Virtual Network routinely utilizing a customized answer through service injection, and user-defined routing could be utilized to route site visitors to-and-from Cloud NGFW for Azure for inspection.
Customers who need a absolutely managed network-as-a-service with highly effective routing also can select to deploy the answer in a Virtual WA. Virtual WAN abstracts and simplifies the complexity of routing inside a big hybrid community that spans on-premises and Azure at-scale. Configuring routing in Virtual WAN to ship site visitors to Cloud NGFW for Azure as a bump-in-the-wire answer requires only a single click on with the Virtual WAN’s clever routing engine dealing with the remainder of the routing.
Getting began with Cloud NGFW for Azure
Discovery and procuring: Azure prospects can discover the Palo Alto Networks service listed on Azure Marketplace, evaluation the completely different buying plans provided, and procure it instantly with single billing enabled:
Provisioning the Palo Alto Networks sources: Within a number of clicks, you may deploy Palo Alto Networks service in your required subscription and datacenter areas along with your most popular plan.
