Delivering distributed, intelligent services closer to your applications

Centralized security appliances are inefficient and expensive at inspecting and protecting east-west application traffic within the data center. Hair-pinning traffic to an appliance sitting at the data center edge slows performance, limits scale, and increases cost. 

Virtualized and containerized application traffic often stays local to the physical rack, host, or VM. This means some application traffic is never inspected by a hardware firewall or other security device—leaving enterprises vulnerable to attacks from within the enterprise itself.

The trend is to unify network and security provisioning to ensure consistent policy enforcement, streamline operations, and provide end-to-end observability.