As applications, users, and workloads spread across branches, data centers, and clouds, independently managed firewalls can leave security teams struggling with inconsistent policies, fragmented visibility, and time-consuming changes. Hybrid mesh firewalls offer an architectural approach to coordinating policy, management, and visibility across distributed enforcement points. But how can buyers determine which solution fits their organization’s needs?
In this webcast, we’ll explore a practical framework for evaluating hybrid mesh firewalls, from defining business priorities and use cases to testing capabilities through a proof of concept.
What You’ll Learn
During this webcast, attendees will learn how to:
- Assess distributed enforcement and architecture: Map traffic paths and evaluate coverage across branches, data centers, and hybrid and multicloud environments.
- Evaluate centralized policy and change governance: Test policy consistency, administrator permissions, approval workflows, deployment, and rollback.
- Validate visibility and investigation capabilities: Assess logging, cross-environment session tracing, historical policy records, and audit evidence.
- Examine automation and integrations: Verify APIs, repeatable provisioning, and connections to existing security and IT workflows.
- Test deployment, performance, and scalability: Evaluate inspection performance, encrypted traffic handling, failover, and growth requirements.
- Determine operational fit: Consider usability, staffing, training, support, and total operating cost.
Choosing a hybrid mesh firewall requires evidence that it can address your organization’s security and operational priorities. Join us to learn how to turn those priorities into testable requirements and use an evaluation checklist to guide selection, proof-of-concept testing, and implementation acceptance.
