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!
I mean a lot of the services that companies are using are cloud-hosted, meaning that especially if you have branch offices or a lot of remote workers a normal firewall in the datacenter introduces an unnecessary bottleneck. Putting the logical edge of your organization’s network in the cloud too makes sense from a performance perspective in that case, and then turning the actual firewalls into SaaS seems much less absurd.