Medium & Large Business

The old model of security was simple. There was good traffic (business applications) and bad traffic (threats) and all you had to do was stop the threats and allow application traffic.

Today, the number, types and nature of applications have changed tremendously. Many applications are hosted outside the enterprise, with enterprise users employing a mix of business-focused and consumer-focused applications for a variety of reasons. All of these applications carry risk and some carry threats, but in most cases they are necessary for business. Blocking them will slow business down, while allowing them can mean taking on too much risk.

It all means network and information security professionals need to shift their focus from treating applications as threats, to working towards enabling them safely.

TELUS Managed Next Generation Firewall service allows you to safely enable modern applications, without taking on the unnecessary risks that accompany them. By focusing on applications, users, and content – in addition to ports and protocols like traditional firewalls – it gives you visibility and control.

Your organization can:

• See what applications are running on the enterprise network
• Decide which applications are desirable from a risk/benefit perspective
• Exert fine-grained control over application traffic, allowing beneficial applications for the right users, disallowing risky applications or functions and mitigating the threats associated with beneficial, high-risk applications
• Protect your enterprise network against malicious/questionable activity

Best of all, you can do this without sacrificing network performance, thanks to parallel processing hardware delivering multi-gigabit performance.