Sorry for my ignorance, but I can’t seem to find a technical explanation of how a cloud service could possibly replace a hardware firewall. Everything I’ve found is just useless marketing fluff.
Can anyone ELI5 how FWaaS is able to work without intimate cooperation from every ISP or a local hardware installation? Thanks in advance!
It’s possible it could be a local firewall that is reaching out to their cloud for lists of bad IP addresses or domains or a local firewall that is configured from a cloud interface. The other case is it could be web application firewall or WAF which where a company intercepts traffic, drops malicious requests and forwards it to your actual web server