In today's dynamic cloud environment, securing your digital assets isn't just important, it's paramount. Businesses grapple with escalating threats, operational complexities and the constant pressure to innovate securely. Enter Cloud NGFW for AWS and Cloud NGFW for Azure from Palo Alto Networks: a revolutionary, fully managed firewall-as-a-service designed to eliminate these challenges.
Leveraging AI-powered threat intelligence and built-in resilience, Cloud NGFW delivers unparalleled protection for your AWS and Azure VPC/VNET traffic. Drawing insights from a vast global network of Palo Alto Networks deployments across on-premises, cloud, hybrid and multicloud environments, our service is uniquely positioned to prevent even the most sophisticated zero-day attacks.
Discover the top five reasons why Cloud NGFW is the essential partner for your cloud security journey.
1. Best-in-Class Security: 99.4% Efficacy
Industry-leading Cloud NGFW for AWS and Cloud NGFW for Azure deliver unmatched threat prevention efficacy, boasting an industry leading 99.4% success rate, proven to outperform any other alternative in the market. This isn't just a number; it results from our cutting-edge, AI-powered threat intelligence.
Our global network of Palo Alto Networks firewalls continuously feeds our AI models with real-time threat data, allowing us to proactively analyze patterns and identify new threats, including sophisticated zero-day attacks, before they can impact your cloud infrastructure. You gain peace of mind knowing your cloud security will be backed by the industry’s leading security platform that blocks 224 billion threats per day, performs 4.3 million unique security updates per day, and has the industry’s advanced threat intelligence team of 200+ highly qualified experts dedicated to safeguarding your data and applications.
2. Built-in Resiliency and 99.99% Uptime with Auto Scaling Capabilities
Forget the complexities of manual scaling and operational overhead. Cloud NGFW for AWS and Cloud NGFW for Azure offer inherent resiliency and an impressive 99.99% availability, ensuring your security infrastructure is always on and performing. Our intelligent, multidimensional auto scaling capabilities dynamically adjust resources based on CPU, memory, throughput, session count and other traffic patterns. This means Cloud NGFW effortlessly handles sudden traffic spikes and fluctuations, guaranteeing that security never becomes a bottleneck for your critical applications. Your security administrators are freed from tedious scaling tasks, allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives while Cloud NGFW seamlessly manages performance and uptime.
3. Single Platform for Your Global Security Demands
In today's hybrid and multicloud world, consistency is key to a strong security posture. While Cloud NGFW is designed to protect cloud traffic, it's part of a broader Palo Alto Networks ecosystem trusted by more than 80,000 customers globally, including most of the Fortune 500 and three-fourths of the Global 2,000 companies.
By standardizing on Palo Alto Networks, you gain a unified security platform that extends from your on-premises infrastructure to your public cloud deployments. This ensures seamless security policy management, a consistent threat intelligence backbone shared with Google Cloud NGFW Service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Oracle Network Firewall Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and a familiar operational experience across all environments. Simplify your security strategy and accelerate your cloud adoption with a single, proven partner.
4. TCO Savings with Impressive ROI and Peace of Mind
Cloud NGFW isn't just a security investment; it's a strategic move to optimize your budget and achieve significant total cost of ownership (TCO) savings. Minimizing the need for extensive security teams and reducing the costs associated with managing and updating traditional firewall solutions reduces operational overhead and saves valuable security team resources.
Our superior threat detection and prevention capabilities mean fewer breaches and less downtime, providing a robust return on investment. In fact, a Forrester Research study showed a 163% ROI with Cloud NGFW, even before our advanced multidimensional scaling was introduced. Coupled with a 99.99% financially backed uptime SLA and bundled cloud infrastructure costs, Cloud NGFW offers not just security but ultimate peace of mind and predictable spending.
5. Platform Built for the Future
The cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving, and your security platform needs to evolve with it. Cloud NGFW is purpose-built for the future, leveraging continuous innovation and AI-driven intelligence to anticipate and mitigate emerging threats proactively. Our commitment to ongoing updates and improvements ensures that your business is always ahead of the curve, equipped to handle the most sophisticated challenges of tomorrow.
Protect Your AWS and Azure Cloud Environments with Cloud NGFW
Cloud NGFW from Palo Alto Networks provides a robust, scalable and intelligent firewall service uniquely positioned to meet the diverse and complex security needs of modern cloud environments on AWS and Azure. By choosing Cloud NGFW, you gain not just unparalleled threat prevention and operational simplicity, but also significant TCO savings and the strategic advantage of a unified security posture.
Don't let evolving cloud threats hinder your innovation. Start your journey to superior cloud security with Cloud NGFW today on the AWS Marketplace or Azure Marketplace and experience a future-ready defense for your digital assets.
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