Close the Hybrid Security Gap on AWS
Extend AWS-native security with consistent protection across cloud and on-premises environments.
As organizations expand their use of AWS, adopt additional clouds, and continue to operate on-premises infrastructure, protecting the network becomes more complicated. Security teams must manage traffic moving among users, applications, data centers, branches, and cloud workloads.
AWS-native security controls provide effective protection for workloads running within AWS. But hybrid and multi-cloud environments can introduce security requirements that extend beyond any individual cloud environment.
This creates a hybrid and multi-cloud security gap when controls, policies, and visibility become fragmented across environments.
Where hybrid and multi-cloud security becomes challenging
As hybrid and multi-cloud environments grow, security teams may encounter several challenges:
- Inconsistent policies and configurations across AWS, other public clouds, and on-premises infrastructure
- Limited visibility into traffic moving among cloud workloads, applications, users, and data centers
- Difficulty inspecting east-west traffic between workloads and north-south traffic entering or leaving the network
- Broad VPN access that can expose more resources than individual users or devices require
- Operational complexity from managing separate security tools and consoles
- Latency and inconsistent application performance caused by backhauling traffic to a central inspection point
Together, these issues can increase risk, complicate compliance, and slow threat response.
Closing the gap with FortiGate VM
FortiGate VM complements cloud-native controls by providing enterprise security capabilities across AWS, other public clouds, and on-premises environments. Because it runs on virtualized infrastructure, it can be deployed close to cloud workloads and scaled as requirements evolve.
FortiGate VM helps security teams:
- Inspect east-west and north-south traffic: Apply advanced inspection to traffic moving among workloads, virtual networks, users, and external destinations.
- Reduce lateral-movement risk: Segment workloads and control communications between applications and network zones to help contain compromised accounts or systems.
- Unify security management: Centrally manage policies and workflows across AWS, other clouds, and on-premises environments to reduce configuration drift and simplify compliance.
- Improve hybrid and multi-cloud visibility: Gain a more unified view of traffic and security events across cloud and traditional infrastructure.
- Modernize application access: Use Zero Trust Network Access to grant access to specific applications based on identity, device posture, and policy instead of providing broad network-level access.
- Optimize traffic inspection: Place security controls closer to applications and workloads to help reduce unnecessary traffic backhauling, latency, and performance bottlenecks.
FortiGate VM is designed to complement, not replace cloud-native controls. This allows organizations to choose the right security service for each workload while maintaining a coordinated security architecture across AWS, other clouds, and on-premises environments.
Ready to close your hybrid and multi-cloud security gap? Start a 30-day FortiGate VM free trial today through
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