A CISO's Guide to Hybrid Mesh Firewall Platforms

If you need to secure your hybrid environment – or if you require more than two forms of firewall deployments to cover your hybrid workforce and environment – then this is the guide for you.

Every new cloud, remote site, private datacenter or hybrid employee adds complexity to your distributed digital environment. As a result, there is high demand for unified solutions that protect the most critical areas of an organization’s IT infrastructure.

Hybrid mesh firewall platforms have emerged to address this gap, providing unified security management to protect diverse digital environments through multiple firewall form factors.

According to Gartner1, “A hybrid mesh firewall (HMF) is a multi-deployment mode firewall, including hardware, virtual appliance and cloud-based options, with a unified cloud-based management plane.”