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VM-SERIES

The virtual firewall built for cloud agility

The industry’s leading virtual firewall brings the world's most effective network security to any cloud or virtualized environment. Find the perfect balance of security, speed, and value. The VM-Series stops evasive threats, reduces deployment time by 90%, and cuts downtime by nearly 70%.
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Competitive

Report: Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls

Rated a Leader for the tenth straight time, with top scores in execution and vision.

Simple. Stronger. Consistently secure networks across clouds.

Virtualized ML-Powered NGFWs match best-in-class security with cloud speed, agility and scale. Get simple and best-in-class network security for public clouds, private clouds, virtual branches, and critical infrastructure.

Public clouds

Protect public cloud environments with best-in-class network security. Stop zero day threats in real time with full traffic visibility and control.

  • Easily add vital protections to native CSP controls
  • Secure multicloud environments with a single toolset
  • Secure all clouds with automated deployment and dynamic scaling
  • Safeguard critical network connections to cloud applications

Private clouds

Stop lateral movement of threats in virtualized and private cloud environments. Seamlessly integrate with virtual machines and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions. Enforce trust zones and secure allowed traffic between microsegments.

  • Built for application protection in virtual environments
  • Enforce consistent security across SDNs and hypervisors
  • Eliminate the need for multiple security toolsets
  • Get comprehensive virtualized network perimeter security

Setting the standard for virtual firewalls

According to a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study, our VM-Series NGFWs can provide savings measured in millions.

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    VIRTUAL NGFW MARKET SHARE

  • 163%

    RETURN ON INVESTMENT

  • 67%

    END-USER DOWNTIME REDUCTION

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Virtualized security excellence spans environments

Consolidate your virtualized security needs by taking advantage of everything the VM-Series can do. From detection to prevention, these firewalls are built to keep your cloud networks protected now and in the future.

Eliminate virtualized network security gaps

Meet today’s security challenges with the power to inspect and control inbound and outbound traffic. Enforce segmentation with threat prevention policies.


Block malicious lateral movement and data exfiltration

Block malicious lateral movement and data exfiltration

Block lateral movement with segmentation and microsegmentation capabilities, so applications are placed in their own trust zones and inspected for threats. Armed with threat analysis and detection features, VM-Series firewalls go a long way toward preventing attackers from moving laterally and accessing sensitive information.

Stop exfiltration with advanced Data Loss Prevention for outbound content inspection. VM-Series firewalls are designed to prevent attackers from leveraging allowed encrypted traffic flows hiding data leaving an environment. VM-Series firewalls can decrypt traffic for outbound content inspection to prevent attackers from exploiting allowed traffic flows.

  • Traffic visibility and control
  • Workload control
  • Greater regulatory compliance capabilities

Cut attack potential and detect hard-to-find threats

Cut attack potential and detect hard-to-find threats

Go beyond port-based CSP security groups and foil adversaries ready to misuse open ports. Get application-level visibility into network traffic with our patented App-ID technology. Massively reduce the opportunities for attack by allowing applications that are necessary for your business, and blocking all other traffic.

Then go even further. Eclipse simple port blocking by using Advanced Threat Prevention and WildFire – and VM-Series inspects all allowed application traffic for vulnerability exploits and advanced malware.

  • Block both known and unknown exploits
  • Comprehensive packet inspection
  • Full application-level visibility into network traffic

Get consistent network security across clouds

Get consistent network security across clouds

Hosting applications in multiple public and private clouds? Your security posture is at risk of becoming more fragmented and difficult to manage. But there’s no need for each part of the environment to require its own policy model and security controls. VM-Series Virtual Firewalls deployed in multiple and hybrid public and private cloud environments can all be managed from the same management console.

Define, enforce, and manage consistent network security policies across on-premises, private and public clouds. Security teams can now deliver the same best-in-class security capabilities to each environment and extend a uniform policy model across the entire ecosystem to ensure consistency and simplification of overall security posture.

  • Single pane of glass for management across environments
  • Consistent security policies across hybrid environments
  • Reduced need for expertise with multiple tools

Get security your way with with flexible purchasing and deployment

Get security your way with with flexible purchasing and deployment

VM-Series Virtual Firewalls meet real-world demand with flexible, credits-based pricing, so you can size and scale security to match rapidly changing cloud requirements. Streamline procurement and deployment cycles. Easily scale security to accommodate changing requirements. Track network security resource consumption and deployment.

What’s more, VM-Series Firewalls provide automated network security at scale to safeguard the applications DevOps manages. Integrate security provisioning into application development lifecycles and CI/CD pipelines. Allow developers to work without interruption while network security teams seamlessly implement the controls needed to keep the environment safe and compliant.

  • Dial security up and down
  • Automate security rapidly in fast-paced environments
  • Integrate security provisioning into DevOps cycles

Deploy virtualized network security in minutes

Deploy virtualized network security in minutes

Rapidly procure and scale with the industry’s most flexible virtual firewall for security at DevOps speed.

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Find out how to use the industry’s leading virtual firewall – and see how easy it is to get started securing workloads, applications and data in private clouds, public clouds and hybrid environments.

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