Azure Services
Azure Services
• cloud-native and intelligent network firewall security service that provides the best
of threat protection for cloud workloads running in Azure.
*North-South traffic inspection - North-south refers to the traffic that flows in and out of a
datacenter. For example, traffic from an application to a backend service.
**East-West traffic inspection - East-west traffic refers to traffic between or within data centers.
For this type of traffic, several resources of the network infrastructure communicate with each
other.
• High availability is built in, so no extra load balancers are required and
there's nothing you need to configure.
*(L3-L7 filtering basically means layers of the OSI model upon which the firewall
tends to work, i.e., L3 is Network Layer and L7 is Application Layer)
EXAMPLE SHOWING THE L3-L7 FILTERING
AZURE FIREWALL PREMIUM
• Azure Firewall Premium provides advanced threat protection that meets the
needs of highly sensitive and regulated environments, such as the payment
and healthcare industries.
• Azure firewall Manager allows to centrally manage Azure Firewalls across multiple subscriptions.
Firewall Manager leverages firewall policy to apply a common set of network/application rules
and configuration to the firewalls in your tenant. It provides features like:
• Firewall Manager can provide security management for two network architecture types: