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Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS)

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Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) represents an innovative approach to providing firewall and other network security functionalities through a cloud-based service. This model overcomes the limitations and intricacies associated with traditional physical and virtual firewalls, ensuring that network security is uniformly accessible across all locations.

 

Enhanced Security: NGFWs offer advanced threat protection capabilities such as intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and deep packet inspection (DPI), providing superior defense against sophisticated cyber threats compared to traditional firewalls.

Application Awareness: NGFWs can identify and control applications, regardless of port, protocol, or IP address used. This helps in managing bandwidth, prioritizing important traffic, and blocking unauthorized applications.

User Identification: NGFWs can identify users and enforce policies based on user identity, ensuring that security policies are applied consistently across all devices used by a specific individual.

Advanced Threat Detection: NGFWs use advanced threat detection technologies such as sandboxing to analyze suspicious files and detect unknown threats, offering proactive security measures.

VPN Support: NGFWs support secure virtual private network (VPN) connections, enabling safe and private access to home networks from remote locations, which is particularly useful for remote work and accessing home devices securely.

24/7 Monitoring: Managed services provide round-the-clock monitoring and support, ensuring immediate response to any security incidents or breaches.

Comprehensive Traffic Analysis Without Any Blind Spots

Helios inspects network traffic from all sources to all destinations across the internet (north-south) and the WAN (east-west). This encompasses traffic across all ports and protocols, extending beyond just HTTP/S traffic. Helios enables organizations to decommission both branch and datacenter firewall appliances, replacing them with Helios FWaaS. The elimination of firewalls is feasible because Helios can provide all the functionalities of traditional firewalls within a network (not proxy) architecture from the cloud, supporting multi-gigabit throughput. By adopting Helios FWaaS, enterprises can eliminate configuration gaps, blind spots, and significantly reduce the risk of data breaches.

 
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Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)-Based Application and User Awareness

Helios FWaaS includes built-in awareness of thousands of applications across all ports and protocols, along with the ability to define custom applications. A DPI engine identifies the application or service as early as the first packet, without the need to decrypt the payload.

Helios allows for policy configuration and enforcement that considers the identity of the users and the organization units they belong to. By synchronizing with the user directory and using the identity agent in the Helios Client, a user identity is associated with every network flow.

 
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