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Valtix vs. Azure Network Security

YOU DESERVE BETTER
FOR MULTI-ACCOUNT MANAGEABILITY

When it comes to cloud network security, cloud-specific does NOT mean best-in-class. While Azure Firewall Premium provides many strong features, its premium price tag will leave you wanting more. Valtix gives you a better alternative with a lower cost of ownership while enabling consistent multi-subscription security and multi-cloud flexibility.

Azure Network Security Lacks
Critical Functionality & Multi-Subscription Manageability

01

MISSING CAPABILITIES

Lacks tag-based microsegmentation, which limits its applicability for enterprise use, thus leaving blindspots for attack visibility.

Bottom Line Impact:

Elevated Security Risk

02

POOR ON
MULTI-SUBSCRIPTION

Application Security Groups (ASGs) provide microsegmentation boundaries but don’t function across subscriptions, which makes management challenging.

Bottom Line Impact:

Wasted Time and Money

03

SINGLE CLOUD
LOCK-IN

With 90%+ of enterprises using more than one public cloud, building a security stack just for Azure that is not scalable to other clouds makes little sense.

Bottom Line Impact:

Reduced Business Agility

Azure Network Security (Azure Firewall Premium)
Is Not Enterprise Ready

Need

Azure Network Security

Valtix

Need:

Workload Protection

Azure Network Security:

Multiple independent services with separate policy constructs required to protect all traffic flows: ingress, egress and east-west. Protection and policies must be set up for each subscription separately making it expensive and hard to scale.

Valtix:

Valtix provides a pre-integrated solution for cloud network security (ingress, egress, and east-west protections) that provide advanced WAF, IDS/IPS, anti-malware, DLP and, FQDN and URL filtering. With Valtix, cloud security teams can enable advanced security in Azure (or multi-cloud) in minutes through web interface and Terraform.

Need:

Zero Trust Microsegmentation

Azure Network Security:

No clear approach to creating microsegmentation based on workload identity that combines access control with advanced traffic inspection policies.

Valtix:

Valtix provides the ability to decrypt and inspect all traffic including East-West. With Valtix, content filtering and alerting can be enabled to prevent malware and exploit attempts – typical tools of attackers trying to establish persistence. Visibility and control of 100+ Azure PaaS offerings.

Need:

Prevent Exfiltration (Egress Security)

Azure Network Security:

Category-based support for egress destinations is limited and does not provide support for decryption exceptions to avoid decryption on sensitive sites such as government, finance, or healthcare sites. No integrated DLP protections for blocking sensitive content such as social security numbers and credit cards.

Valtix:

Valtix prevents exfiltration with comprehensive egress security, including category-based filtering and DLP with multiple pre-configured patterns (i.e., credit card numbers, bank routing numbers, etc.). Valtix also enables category-based filtering to secure legitimate outbound traffic with the option to disable decryption for sensitive personal sites.

Need:

Incident Response

Azure Network Security:

Basic network traffic logs provide session meta-data but not actual attack or threat details.

Valtix:

Valtix delivers automated live session and attack level PCAPs into your Azure storage with the ability to proactively enable captures during a detected attack for a rich incident response.

Need:

Multi-Cloud and Multi-Subscription

Azure Network Security:

Azure only. Policies are implemented on a per-subscription basis.

Valtix:

Valtix provides consistent security not only across multiple subscriptions but also the four major clouds of AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.

Top Reasons to Choose Valtix Over
Azure Network Security (Azure Firewall Premium)

More Feature-Rich
Security

Combines enterprise level cloud network security with cloud-first simplicity. Protect workloads, gain visibility to attacks, segment workloads, meet compliance, and respond to incidents faster.

Multi-Subscription Simplicity

Protects 10s and 100s of Azure subscriptions with a consistent architecture and multi-account security policy based on workload identity.

Multi-Cloud
Manageability & Policy

Comprehensive cloud network security across all major clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI) through a single console.

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