Perimeter and Firewall Security

WHY DO YOU NEED FIREWALL AS-A-SERVICE?
Let Network Edge take responsibility for providing and securing your Internet connectivity.
For a monthly fee we guarantee that your Firewall provides the best protection available,
is licensed and maintained, and can be restored quickly under any failure scenario.

Our Firewall as-a-Service provides business Internet access up to 10Gbps. The customer Firewall can be a single gateway or a high availability (HA) dual Data Centre configuration.

Key Features:

  • We maintain Internet perimeter protection for all of our customers using separate dedicated high-performance Intrusion Detection/Intrusion Protection (IDS/IPS) appliances.

  • A virtualised customer Firewall is sized to support the required Internet bandwidth and is connected to the customer WAN.

  • Internet access is provisioned to multiple upstream wholesale Internet Service Providers with automated failover in the event of ISP failure.

  • For even greater availability, virtualised HA Firewalls can be provisioned in diverse Data Centre’s to support automated failover.

Add-on Services:

  • Universal Threat Management (UTM) services, including protection against malware, malicious URLs, DNS, and Command & Control attacks.

  • Web browser filtering, including Active Directory integration.

  • SSL VPN remote access.

Support:

Network Edge provides comprehensive support of the customer Firewall environment, including:

  • Undertaking changes to the Firewall rule set on customer request using a change request approval process.

  • Maintaining Firewall licensing and vendor support agreements.

  • Maintaining a backup of the Firewall configuration.

  • Maintaining a snapshot backup of the virtual Firewall in order to quickly restore service in the event of as-a-Service infrastructure failure.