SonicWall’s hybrid mesh firewall platform merges the capabilities of traditional firewalls with advanced features to provide seamless protection for every aspect of your organisation, everywhere.
With ever-evolving and expanding work environments, network and security infrastructures are increasingly more complex. With a greater range of devices connecting to the network and from anywhere, your security posture must be flexible and wide-ranging enough to secure your network. This means deploying more than one type of firewall. The more diverse your working environment becomes, the more challenging and resource-intensive it is to oversee and manage your security boundary, while still being able to quickly respond to rising cyber threats.
Enter the Hybrid Mesh Firewall, unifying all firewall deployments, on-premises or cloud-based under a single security and management umbrella.
So what exactly is a hybrid mesh firewall?
A hybrid mesh firewall platform is a comprehensive network security solution from a single vendor that ensures consistent security across various locations and types. Managed from a single management interface, a hybrid mesh firewall platform incorporates hardware, software, and cloud firewalls as well as security services. This enables consistent policy enforcement through centralised management. It allows organisations to protect all their environments – including on-premises data centres, cloud environments, remote workforces, campuses, branches, and operational facilities – with a common security framework.
A SonicWall solution for all firewall form factors whether on-premises or cloud-native
Centralised management with unified policy enforcement
A hybrid mesh firewall gives you an advanced security shield that combines traditional firewalls with modern features. This means:
- Protection for the entire network
Safeguards your entire network, from offices to remote workers and cloud applications.
- Better defences
Blocks modern threats before they can impact your business.
- Simplified Access Control
Ensures only authorised users and devices can access your data (zero trust).
- Flexibility for an evolving business
Operates seamlessly, no matter how distributed your workforce or applications are.
What to look for in a hybrid mesh firewall
Cloud-based centralised management with reporting and analytics
Advanced security and feature-rich
Scalability and Flexibility
- To manage multiple security devices within a hybrid mesh firewall, many enterprises use cloud-based (SaaS) centralised management tools. These tools simplify deployment, configuration, monitoring, auditing, reporting, and analytics. They provide a unified view of the network's security, allowing real-time monitoring and automated responses to incidents. This includes securing corporate locations, cloud assets, SaaS applications, BYOD, guest services, and remote workers. With these tools, enterprises can efficiently and effectively manage their security infrastructure.
- To protect against malicious attacks and breaches, a hybrid mesh firewall should provide features such as packet filtering, access control and stateful inspection capabilities that monitors and controls all network, user and application traffic, based on predefined rules and policies.An hybrid mesh firewall can incorporate advanced security features that boost the ability to detect, identify and respond to aggressive threats like zero-day exploits and advanced persistent threats (APTs). These features can include deep packet inspection (DPI), application visibility and control, intrusion prevention, antivirus, signature-based threat detection, SSL/TLS decryption and inspection, sandboxing, and threat intelligence integration.
- Scalability and flexibility for any organisations is essential to accommodate changing needs. A hybrid mesh network makes it easy to expand the network infrastructure and adapt to evolving security needs by adding or upgrading individual security devices and incorporate modern cloud-native or client-based enforcement points for new use cases. And this can be done without disrupting policy and management processes.Additionally, the hybrid mesh firewall supports automation and playbooks for Network Operations Centers (NOC) and Security Operations Centers (SOC), as well as access control rules.
What can SonicWall offer?
Ease of Use and Zero-Touch Deployment with SaaS Management
SonicWall Network Security Manager is a single console that centralises management of all firewalls, switches and access points. Scale to need, manage policies, see hidden risks, generate reports and analytics all from a single cloud-based SaaS application.
Cloud-based management to onboard and manage as many firewalls as needed, of all types and for all uses, with :
- zero-touch deployment
- simple configuration wizard
- built-in and audit-ready reporting
- fleet management
- custom templates
- auto-upgrade, and more.
Flexible Deployment Options
SonicWall has a network security solution for any enterprise, of any size:
- SOHO and TZ Series firewalls for SMBs and branch/internet edge use cases
- NSa Series for midsize enterprises and campus deployments
- NSsp Series for large enterprises and data centre deployments
- NSv Series virtual firewalls for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Superior Threat Protection with Advanced Security Services and Global Threat Intelligence
With TLS decryption and inspection capabilities and IPS capabilities with advanced anti-evasion technology, SonicWall’s hybrid mesh firewall delivers a much deeper level of security across wired and wireless networks. In addition, it provides a network-based malware protection solution with the power of cloud sandboxing. The patented Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI™) and patented single-pass, low latency, Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) engines are a key feature of SonicWall firewalls.