Firewall Bursting: A New Approach to Better Branch Security

One of the most common network security solutions is the branch firewall. Branch firewall appliances can pack into a single device a wide range of security capabilities including a stateful or next-generation firewall, anti-virus, URL filtering, and IDS/IPS.

But the reality is that most of these edge devices lack the processing power to apply the full scope of capabilities on all of the necessary traffic.