Cloud Firewall Performance for Microsoft Azure | Datasheet

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Cloud Firewall, part of the Hybrid Mesh Security platform, provides advanced threat prevention and

automated cloud network security through a virtual security gateway, with unified security management

across all your multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

For public clouds, Cloud Firewall provides automated and elastic public cloud network security to keep

assets and data protected while staying aligned to the dynamic needs of public cloud environments.

For private clouds, Cloud Firewall delivers dynamic security within virtual datacenters to prevent the lateral

spread of threats while consolidating visibility & management across physical & virtual networks.

Performance: Cloud Firewall (R81.20) - Azure v5 Machines Notes:

 Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) throughput is measured with FW, IPS, Application Control features enabled

(see table 2 below), using Check Point Enterprise testing conditions.

 Next Generation Threat Prevention (NGTP) throughput is measured with FW, IPS, Application Control, URL

Filter, Anti-Virus, Anti-Bot features enabled (see table below), using Check Point Enterprise testing conditions.

 FW + Site to Site VPN methodology: ideal testing conditions using iPerf tool, UDP only and 1300 bytes packet

size

It is recommended to run additional testing within your environment to ensure your performance requirements are met. Your performance may vary depending on underlying cloud vendor infrastructure performance.

2 vCPU: D2ds_v5 4 vCPU: D4ds_v5 8 vCPU: D8ds_v5

Concurrent Connections 500K* 500K* 500K*

FW Only 7.8Gbps 11Gbps 11Gbps

FW + IPS 4.1Gbps 7.6Gbps 11Gbps

NGFW (FW + IPS + Application Control) 2.7Gbps 5.8Gbps 11Gbps

NGTP (NGFW + URL Filter + Anti-Virus + Anti-Bot) 1Gbps 2.2Gbps 4.4Gbps

FW + Site-to-Site VPN 2.5Gbps 5Gbps 10Gbps

Remote access VPN Concurrent Connections (NGFW) 500 1000 1700

Remote access VPN Concurrent Connections (NGTP) 400 750 1500

Accuracy range: +/-5% *Concurrent Connections limited by Azure to 512K. For updates, see Microsoft Azure virtual machine network bandwidth webpage.

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Cloud Firewall Gateway Performance for Microsoft Azure

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Content Security Network

First Time Prevention Capabilities High Availability

 OS-level and static file analysis

 File disarm and reconstruction via Threat Extraction

 Average emulation time for unknown files that require full sandbox evaluation is under 100 seconds

 Maximal file size for Emulation is 100 MB

 Emulation OS Support: Windows XP, 7, 8.1, 10

 Active/Active L2, Active/Passive L2 and L3*

 Session failover for routing change, device and link failure

*Not applicable for cloud service providers usage

IPv6

 NAT66

 CoreXL, SecureXLApplications

 Use 8,000+ pre-defined or customize your own applications

 Accept, prevent, schedule, and apply traffic-shaping

Unicast and Multicast Routing (see

SK98226)

 OSPFv2, BGP, RIP

 Static routes, Multicast routes

 Policy-based routing

 PIM-SM, PIM-DM, IGMP v2, and v3

Data Loss Prevention

 Classify 700+ pre-defined data types

 End user and data owner incident handling

Dynamic User-based Policy

 Integrates with Microsoft AD, LDAP, RADIUS, Cisco pxGrid, Terminal Servers and with 3rd parties via a Web API

 Enforce consistent policy for local and remote users on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and Apple iOS platforms

All-inclusive Security

NGFW NGTP NGTX

Basic access control Prevent known threats Prevent known and zero-day

attacks

Firewall   

VPN (IPsec)   

IPS   

Application Control   

Content Awareness   

URL Filtering  

Anti-Bot  

Anti-Virus  

Anti-Spam  

SandBlast Threat Emulation 

SandBlast Threat Extraction 

Each gateway requires a license for the enabled security feature.

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