Close the Hybrid Security Gap on Azure

Extend Azure-native security with consistent protection across cloud and on-premises environments.

As organizations expand their use of Azure, 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.

Azure-native security controls provide effective protection for workloads running within Azure. 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 Azure, 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 Azure, 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.

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 Azure hub-and-spoke or transit architectures 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 enables organizations to choose the right security service for each workload while maintaining a coordinated security architecture across Azure, 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 Microsoft Marketplace.