Once upon a time, network security was simple – build a big wall around the perimeter and defend what’s inside.
But in our increasingly digital working world, the perimeter isn’t simply around the office.
Legacy firewalls aren’t fit for purpose
Last-gen firewalls were designed for static environments – single sites where everything came in and out of a central hub. They require on-site hardware, are difficult to scale, and often leave gaps in protection.
Your barriers need to protect wherever your people, apps, and data live, which means they can’t enforce policies consistently across remote workers or multi-cloud deployments.
Now your workforce is hybrid, your apps live in the cloud, and your data moves across devices and geographies, traditional firewalls just don’t cut it anymore, blind, brittle, and broken by default.
Enter Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) – your next-gen solution to deter cyber snakes.
FWaaS: Firewalls reimagined
FWaaS changes the game by delivering firewall capabilities natively from the cloud.
Key benefits of FWaaS:
- Zero-trust security across all edges
- Unified visibility and threat detection
- Scalable cloud-based deployment
- Integration with other SASE components like ZTNA and CASB
With centralised control and protection across all your apps, devices, and users, you can ensure consistent policy enforcement no matter where your team is located.
Think of FWaaS as the safety net under every ladder. Even if something slips through, you’ve got an extra layer of defence to keep you from falling into a snake pit.
The cloud advantage
Though FWaaS adoption lags slightly behind ZTNA and CASB, its role in a full SASE ecosystem is essential.
- Deeper content inspection
- Malware attack identification
- Enables the move to a secure
cloud infrastructure - Management efficiency
- Lower CapEx costs
- Deeper network traffic inspection
& policy enforcement
It reduces infrastructure overhead, enables rapid deployment, and protects traffic without latency spikes – it’s a crucial piece of the puzzle for any business operating across multiple sites or scaling its digital transformation.
Why Digital Space?
Digital Space offers FWaaS as a seamless part of our Fortinet SASE offering, helping you modernise your network defences without the complexity of deploying or managing the solution yourself.
We bring everything together into a unified, scalable fully managed solution that secures your business for the growth ahead, and we’ve won awards for the quality of our solutions.
Because we know that climbing the ladder is one thing. Staying up there? That’s a completely different challenge, and exactly where the game is won or lost.
