Plan Your Firewall Migration to Increase Security Resilience
White Papers
If you will be upgrading or migrating to a next generation firewall, take the opportunity to also review your overall security architecture. You spend significant time and money to implement, maintain, and upgrade your security infrastructure. Make sure your security tool architecture is designed to maximize value and efficiency. Limit the risk of downtime to your network. Keep your applications strong. All these benefits start with the simple addition of a bypass switch. For more advanced architectures, add a network packet broker.
This paper examines how you can achieve these goals and implement a resilient security fabric— one that delivers a self-healing, highly-available security architecture to complement your nextgeneration firewall (NGFW).
Reduce the Risk of Downtime
Take a close look at your overall architecture and identify all of the potential points for failure or performance issues. With serial inline deployment, traffic is passed from one security appliance to the other, meaning a failure in any one of the devices can stop traffic flow and cause a network outage. For most organizations, the cost of downtime is substantial and can be used to calculate the return on investment of any project proposed to reduce it.