What is Azure Virtual WAN?
Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN is a virtual network solution that makes it easier for an organization to connect its hybrid cloud infrastructure. An organization can create a private network hub in its Azure cloud environment and connect on-premises data centers, branch locations, and remote workers to this hub via Azure ExpressRoute, VPN or SD-WAN connectors.
What is Azure Virtual WAN Security?
Azure Virtual WAN provides the ability to define a private network in the Azure cloud and connect it to the rest of an organization’s hybrid cloud infrastructure. However, VPNs and some SD-WAN solutions only protect against eavesdropping and don’t inspect or secure the traffic flowing through them.
To protect its hybrid cloud environment against potential threats, an organization needs enterprise-grade network security to secure its Azure Virtual WAN deployment. An Azure Virtual WAN security solution will inspect network traffic for potential threats before routing it on to its destination.
Azure Virtual WAN Security with CloudGuard Network Security
Check Point and Microsoft have partnered to integrate Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, an Azure-certified technology solution, with Azure Virtual WAN. CloudGuard complements and enhances Azure security controls to enable organizations to secure their assets in the cloud with elasticity, agility and high availability.
Main Benefits
CloudGuard is designed to provide tight integration with Azure’s built-in networking and security solutions. Enhancing Microsoft Azure security with CloudGuard Network Security can provide numerous benefits to an organization, including the following:
- Complete Visibility and Control for Azure: CloudGuard has full visibility into network traffic on Azure Virtual WAN. This enables the organization to centrally monitor and manage traffic flows throughout its hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- Comprehensive Security Protections: CloudGuard extends Check Point’s enterprise-grade network security protections to the hybrid cloud. CloudGuard offers comprehensive protections to the needs of public and hybrid cloud environments.
- Centralized Management: CloudGuard integrates with the rest of an organization’s Check Point security architecture. This makes it easier to manage the corporate security posture from a single, centralized location.
- Consolidated Logs and Reporting: The Check Point integration also means that security log data is collected and processed at a central location. In addition to improving threat prevention, this streamlines internal and external reporting.
- Rapid and Flexible Deployment: Customers deploy CloudGuard security gateways into the Azure Virtual WAN Hub directly from the Azure Marketplace using an Azure Managed Application. The tight integration with Azure Virtual WAN makes CloudGuard fast and easy to deploy and configure.
- Integration with Microsoft Sentinel: CloudGuard Network Security also offers an integration with Microsoft Sentinel. This enables an organization to more easily integrate and consolidate its security logs and alerting across Microsoft and Check Point solutions.
Securing Azure Virtual WAN with CloudGuard Network Security
Azure Virtual WAN provides an organization with the ability to easily and efficiently connect its hybrid cloud infrastructure together. However, the private networking provided by Azure Virtual WAN must be integrated with a network security solution to provide enterprise-grade protection for the organization’s hybrid cloud.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for Azure Virtual WAN takes advantage of the cost efficiencies and automation of Virtual WAN while tightly integrating advanced security features designed to meet the efficiency and scalability requirements of large deployments in the public cloud.
Find out more about Check Point CloudGuard Network Security for Azure Virtual WAN by checking it out in the Azure Marketplace. To learn more and see the capabilities of CloudGuard Network Security for yourself, sign up for a free demo today or schedule a personalized cloud security workshop.
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