Virtualization and cloud technologies are driving a data center transformation that melds on-premises resources with both private and public cloud resources. The VM-Series securely enables this transformation with the same next-generation firewall and advanced threat prevention features that protect your physical network.

The VM-Series Virtualized NextGeneration Firewall

• Delivers complete next-generation firewall security and advanced threat prevention to private, public and hybrid cloud computing environments.

• Supports a wide range of hypervisor and orchestration environments, including: VMware NSX, ESXi, vCloud Air, Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V Citrix NetScaler SDX, Amazon Web Services and KVM with optional support for the OpenStack plugin.

• Identifies and controls applications within your virtualized environments, limits access based on users, and prevents known and unknown threats.

• Enforces segmentation of applications and data to strengthen security and maintain compliance.

• Streamlines policy updates so that security keeps pace with the rate of change within your private, public or hybrid cloud.

The benefits of implementing cloud technologies include greater agility, scalability, and an ability to be more responsive to your business. The benefits are well-known, but so too are the security challenges, which are no different from those you face within your on-premises data center. These challenges include a lack of application visibility and control, an inability to prevent cyberattacks, and cumbersome policy update processes that induce delays between workload deployment and security policy updates. To be successful, organizations need a cloud security solution that:

• Identifies and controls application workloads, regardless of the port it may use.

• Controls who should be allowed to use the applications, and grants access based on need and credentials.

• Extends security policy consistency from the network to the cloud to the remote device.

• Stops malware from gaining access to, and moving laterally (east-west) within the cloud.

• Simplifies management and minimizes the security policy lag as virtual workloads change.

The VM-Series supports the same next-generation firewall and advanced threat prevention features that are available in our security appliances, enabling you to protect your applications and data from the network to the cloud.