Multi-cloud networking software company Prosimo announced an integration with Palo Alto Networks to create a powerful new security approach that protects applications and workloads in multi cloud environments.
Prosimo’s full stack Cloud Transit platform allows customers to seamlessly integrate with Palo Alto’s VM-Series virtual next-generation firewall (NGFW) to deploy security closer to the workload, reduce time and effort and secure application access across multi-cloud environments, for users and workloads.
“Together with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewalls, we’re providing organizations with a Zero Trust framework so they can be confident their application workloads are secure while ensuring fast and reliable connectivity to and across cloud providers,” said Prosimo VP of product, Mani Ganesan. “This integration allows enterprises to improve observability, increase operational efficiency, and safely gives them more control of their cloud environment.”
In contrast to integrations that focus on orchestrating firewalls and inserting them in the path of cloud network traffic – where they rely on IP addresses/port numbers to redirect traffic – Prosimo provides service insertion policies to allow users to define sophisticated rules that determine which traffic will be routed for advanced inspection to the firewall.
Prosimo simplifies deployment for two flexible architectures for Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewalls:
- Centralized: VM-Series virtual firewall is deployed into a centralized VPC for east-west (VPC-to-VPC) or north-south (internet egress and ingress, cloud to on-premises) traffic.
- Distributed: VM-Series virtual firewalls are deployed in each virtual private cloud.
“Speed is critical in the cloud, so the speed of operations in configuring software firewalls, like the VM-Series virtual firewall, needs to match the speed of cloud deployments,” said Vitaliy Sivetskiy, senior product manager, Palo Alto Networks. “Integrating Prosimo’s Full Stack Cloud Transit and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewall makes network security teams’ lives easier. Our single intuitive operating model for connectivity and virtual firewall insertion means customers have more time to focus on application business innovation versus managing network and security infrastructure. This enables organizations to help protect all clouds, the right way, with agility.”
Integrating Prosimo with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewalls ensures enhanced security and scalability across the network and application layer. With native integration, customers can provision new virtual firewalls in a few clicks from a single dashboard.
Benefits include:
- Eliminating blind spots for network and security teams.
- Right-sizing software firewalls to optimize cloud costs.
- Using existing firewalls to segment east-west and north-south data movement within clouds.
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