The Modern Firewall Infrastructure

Learn how to migrate your complex and un-maintanable firewall into a components based efficient infrastructure that allows upgrades, reviewing and better security.

We will talk about splitting needs into requirements and how you can ease the migration from your current setup.

Networks are increasingly complex and we need confidentiality, integrity and availability - while performing service windows, upgrading, changing routing, VPNs and make general changes.

How can we control complexity, configure the web of connections, rate limit the pipes, monitor the performance and log everything. We have firewall with thousands of configuration lines and rules connecting all parts of your company to the worlds of partners, internet, inside, wireless etc. Doomed to fail! It has in fact already failed. You cannot comprehend the ruleset, the consequences or do any service.

This presentation aim to change the concept of a firewall into the modern firewall infrastructure. A method of identifying, splitting and configuring infrastructure devices in a way that allows you to work efficiently, upgrade parts with less risk while maintaining security. Example Consider having a dedicated firewall cluster for VPN, how does that improve your situation. The audience will leave with blueprint ideas for improving the security of your sites by simplifying the routing, filtering and infrastructure layers.

The audience will leave with an overview of high-level concepts and methods for changing complex network into more manageable parts that can be serviced with confidence and less risk of failure.