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!

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It’s a vpn to their datacenter. Either hosted on the client or at the site internet handoff, or both.

    Lots of jargon is used to make it sound more than that, but it’s not magic.