Tackling Cloud Security With Cloud-Native Firewalls
Nobody “gets” the risks and rewards of cloud migration like MSSPs. As your clients move compute to Amazon Web Services (AWS), they reap significant benefits. IDC pegs the big ones at:
- 51 percent reduction in operations costs
- 62 percent increase in IT staff productivity
- 94 percent reductions in downtime
The Cloud Security Question
But some network consequences of cloud migration—chiefly decentralization, management complexity, cost management and security—create challenges of their own. A question raised in a Fortinet cloud-security primer video lands squarely at the feet of MSSPs like yours:
“How can you deliver network security on AWS without the burdens of managing infrastructure and the costs associated with it?”
The MSSP Answer
The answer, of course, is why AWS network security is best addressed by MSSPs to begin with. A fully managed firewall-as-a-service solution like Fortinet’s Cloud Native Firewall (CNF) empowers your MSSP to deliver the protection your clients need.
Your clients gain security that:
- Can be highly customized (via policy definitions) to their use case
- Helps your clients avoid security infrastructure costs
- Is always up to date
- Easily scales as client needs grow or fluctuate seasonally
Talking Points
Here are some talking points that may help in client discussions:
- A CNF ensures that you capture the benefits of AWS. There are well-documented cost benefits from moving your compute to AWS, but those can be eaten up by the costs of building security infrastructure and staff to lock it down. A CNF eliminates security operations costs, scales with your compute needs and gets you out of the constant-upgrade cost cycle.
- A CNF delivers robust, enterprise-level security to your AWS infrastructure. CNF combines next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities including intrusion prevention system (IPS), web filtering, domain name system (DNS) security and more, customized to your cloud deployments.
- CNF delivers next-gen, orchestrated security in a simple, set-it-and-forget-it package. CNF security allows you to define and customize policies across diverse infrastructure, resulting in centralized, streamlined and optimized security operations.
Need More Info?
Want to learn more about CNF or more ammo for client talks? A deep-dive, including shareable videos, features and benefits lists and technical specs, is available here.