Multi-Cloud Firewall
  • 07 Jul 2023
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Article Summary

Service Overview

Multi-Cloud Firewall is a network security platform that provides north-south firewall capability in multiple clouds all managed through a centralized management plane, enabling simpler and more consistent management of security policies. As a managed service, Expedient maintains the platform, provides alerting, and performs patching so you can focus on the security of your infrastructure. Clients have full access to view and create policies, create custom alerts, and set deploy policy updates to tailor the platform to their security posture.

Service Features

  • Basic Networking and Firewall Functionality
    • IPv4/IPv6
    • VLAN Tagging
    • NAT / NO-NAT
    • Clustering / HA Failover
    • FIPs Mode
    • Routing - Static, Dynamic, and Policy based
    • IPSec - Routed, Policy Based, and Multiple VPN Source IPs
  • Built-in Security
    • DNS Attack Prevention
    • Threat Prevision (Exploit, Malware, and C2)
    • URL Filtering (Maclicious Site & Phishing)
  • Dashboard for management and monitoring of multiple firewalls
  • 24x7x365 support for alerting and troubleshooting

Default Deployment Settings

  • Dedicated firewall cluster pair on-premises, in Expedient's cloud or hyperscale cloud
  • Dashboard access through single sign-on and multi-factor authentication
  • Alerts configured to Expedient SMC for client communications

Use Cases

  • North-south firewalling
  • Threat prevention
  • File blocking
  • Access Control
  • URL Filtering

Responsibility and Accountability Matrix

Multi-Cloud Firewall Responsibility Matrix 

Task 

Expedient 

Client 

Co-Managed  

Co-Managed tasks can be performed by Expedient or Client based on Client's preference 

Platform deployment and management

 

 


Platform licensing

X




Management Console User and Access Management 



X


Deploy standard policies

X




Policy configuration



X


Supported Platforms

Applications/Platforms Supported

Expedient Services

  • Expedient Enterprise Cloud
  • Dedicated Private Cloud
  • Expedient Enterprise Workspace
  • Expedient Edge
Physical Servers

Hyperscale Cloud

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform

Notable Applications/Platforms NOT Supported

Hypervisors:

  • Hyper-V
  • AHV

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