WatchGuard Security withCloud-Managed Firewalls

The security landscape continues to evolve, as threats get more sophisticated, and network environments become more complex. All businesses, regardless of size, face a growing number of Cyber Threats targeting their data, users, and systems. One of the best and most user-friendly solutions is WatchGuard Cloud-Managed Firewall. WatchGuard provides all the benefits and capabilities of both on-premises and cloud solutions. Leveraging its cloud-based infrastructure, business owners or IT teams can quickly deploy, configure, monitor, and manage WatchGuard’s protection from any location, making it ideal for businesses of all sizes. 

What is a WatchGuard cloud-managed firewall? 

A cloud-managed firewall is an NGFW (Next Generation Firewall) that can be controlled, configured, and monitored from the cloud-based interface. Instead of being managed on-premises, cloud-managed firewalls centralize management through the cloud, allowing you to view across all branch locations for network security awareness without any physical hardware or having to manually change settings. 

WatchGuard cloud-managed firewalls deliver the power of next-gen firewall technology with ultimate ease of use and affordability. This includes effective security options like IPS / IDP, Application Control, Antivirus scanning, and sandboxing to detect and prevent threats. The firewalls are built to secure your network perimeter, along with remote workers, branch offices, and IoT devices. 

Advantages of WatchGuard Cloud-Managed Firewalls 

1. Preventative Security Measures: WatchGuard Firewalls take a Unified security approach, mixing many security tools into one solution, incorporating IDS/IPS, Anti-Phishing, Gateway AV/Anti-Spam Suite, and Application control features. Tools like WatchGuard Threat Sync keep your firewall current with the latest threat intelligence in real-time to protect against new threats.
2. Centralized Cloud Management: Centralized cloud management is a key part of all WatchGuard cloud-managed firewalls. WatchGuard Cloud administrators can easily set up new firewall appliances, configure firewall policies, find and resolve security events on the network, as well as analyze and report on network performance from a single console. This removes the necessity for in-house management, and grants convenient access to performance report security settings from any location.
3. Zero-Touch Deployment: These cloud-managed firewalls can be pre-configured and shipped directly to a remote site. The firewall powers on automatically connects to WatchGuard Cloud, downloads the configuration, and is up and running. This makes the deployment process significantly easier, particularly for distributed teams or organizations with multiple office locations.
4. Scalability and Flexibility: One of the advantages of using a cloud-managed firewall is scalability. The built-in orchestration lets your organization scale its network security infrastructure automatically as you grow, adding new firewalls or updating existing firewalls, all deployed from the cloud. The scalable WatchGuard platform is built to accommodate all businesses, from small ones with limited IT resources, to large enterprises with complex network environments.
5. Increased Visibility: WatchGuard Cloud offers detailed insight into issues like network activity, security incidents, and device performance, with in-depth reports, traffic patterns, and updates on blocked threats and user behaviors. WatchGuard Cloud makes it possible for IT teams to tailor their policies more effectively by instantly recognizing potential security issues.
6. Extensive VPN and Remote Access: With many organizations embracing remote work, securing remote access has become critical. All of WatchGuard’s firewalls offer integrated, easy-to-setup VPN capabilities making it simple and secure for your remote employees to connect. By providing IPSec, SSL, and Mobile VPN support, WatchGuard assures that communication between remote users to your corporate network is secure.
7. High Availability: Across all three facets you get High Availability and Redundancy, at multiple levels: Noise, Level, and Region. WatchGuard firewalls are designed for high availability, with robust failover setups ensuring that, even in the event of hardware failure, your important network services will remain up and running. This is essential for businesses that depend on 24/7 internet and network access.

Features of WatchGuard Cloud-Managed Firewall 

1. Simplified Management: Security can be a complex issue to manage, particularly when you have multiple locations, devices, and users. WatchGuard Cloud offers the same user-friendly management, visibility, and control for all firewalls everywhere in one single platform. This standardization means that executing tasks like firmware upgrades, security policy modifications, and network monitoring is faster and easier.
2. Cost-Effective: WatchGuard eliminates the need for expensive, on-site hardware and manual configuration and ongoing maintenance. Furthermore, the scalability of the WatchGuard platform enables your business to grow its network security without additional capital outlay.
3. Improved Security Posture: WatchGuard Cloud-Managed Firewalls provide multi-layered, continuously updated security that protects your organization from known threats, and zero-day new malware, ransomware, and phishing attempts.
4. Enhanced User Experience: WatchGuard firewalls integrate features like Application Control, URL filtering, and QoS (Quality of Service), providing a combination of performance and security. This lets you keep EUC running smoothly, with employees securely connected to business applications and cloud services.
5. Serving Remote and Hybrid Workforces: Securing remote access to corporate resources is especially critical with the increase of a remote workforce. WatchGuard firewall integrations with existing VPN capability allow employees to safely work from home, either on their network or their device, while remaining protected by the same policies that are in place across distributed environments.

 Experienced eMazzanti professionals can assist you with selecting, configuring and maintaining WatchGuard and other Cyber Solutions.