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Firewall as a Service: Designated by Gartner as a technology on the rise in its Hype Cycle 2017
November 2017 by Secucloud
In
Gartner’s current Hype Cycles, the Hype Cycle for Threat-Facing Technologies, 2017
(July 2017) and the Hype Cycle for Midsize Enterprises, 2017 (July 2017), the
analyst firm defines the Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) category and names it as a
technology that is currently “on the rise”. Secucloud, the German provider of
cloud-based security, is one of the providers listed by Gartner.
The Secucloud Firewall as a Service gives users
much more flexibility because it scales up or down as necessary in a virtual cloud
environment. It is also location-independent, so mobile devices like laptops and
smartphones – along with equipment in home offices – benefit from the same
protection as computers, machines and IoT devices on the corporate network. In this
way, Secucloud provides universal enforcement of security policies regardless of
location, including across a variety of subsidiaries and devices. The necessary
security profiles are predefined and Secucloud ensures that they are implemented
immediately, saving IT security managers valuable time. In addition, the solution
eliminates the time and cost required for implementing patches and updates. As a
cloud-based solution, the Secucloud firewall is automatically kept up to date at all
times. Its high scalability ensures that there are never any compromises on
performance – regardless of the number of users and even with the implementation
of computing-intensive security filters.
