The concept of firewall is changing. Cloud environments and workloads, edge computing, IoT, OT, and BYOD are all challenging the relevancy of traditional firewall approaches that establish a network perimeter. Many organizations are rethinking their long-standing security practices in light of the benefits offered by cloud firewalls.

According to IDC research, 41.6% of organizations invested in “modernized cybersecurity infrastructure” in 2021, and 82% of organizations expect to use the cloud for IT infrastructure security delivery models by 2022. The IDC Analyst Brief presents considerations for cloud firewall buyers who are navigating the complex and often mixed marketing messages of firewall as a service providers.

Read this brief to learn:

• The advantages of a cloud firewall model for enterprise IT environments
• The differences between traditional firewall appliances ported to the cloud versus true born-in-the-cloud and built-for-the-cloud firewalls
• How you can establish a business case for firewall as a service in the presence of existing security investments

Discover why so many organizations are rethinking their firewalls.

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