WatrchGuard has announced Firecloud Total Access, a hybrid Sase that can be deployed In companies of any sizefrom SMEs to multinationals. This solution, designed for your deployment and management to be agile and simple for reduced MSPS and IT equipment, uniform SWG, FWAAS, ZTNA and identity on a single platform managed in the cloud.
Firecloud Total Access is a Zero Trust service from the cloud that extends business level to any user, regardless of where they work. Protects remote workers against online threats while offering continuous access, based on identity, software applications such as service, cloud and private.
Eliminates the risks and complexity of remote user and hardware VPNs, which makes Firecloud Total Access provide faster, safe and simple connectivity. In addition, it expands the Firecloud product suite and advances the company’s hybrid vision.
Firecloud Total Access Unifica Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Firewall-As-A-Service (FWAAS) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) on a unique platform managed from Watchguard Cloud. This approach simplifies operations and makes business level protection easy to offer and accessible, in addition to giving IT teams a way to evolve towards a Zero-Trust posture.
As part of the Unified Security Platform Architecture of Watchguard, Firecloud Total Access is delivered by means Precise and faster response.
This fluid protection solution to the remote user and ensures access to applications and sensitive data at home. Firecloud Total Access guarantees that each user, in each connection, remains protected, regardless of its location. In addition, it expands the protections of the Watchguard Firebox network security.
Firecloud Total Access, already available through the Watchguard network, composed of more than 17,000 mSps in more than 20 countries, includes the Zero Trust Network Access security model (ZTNA), which offers access per session, aware of identity and device, to private applications. In addition, it acts as a substitute for the remote user VPN and only allows user’s necessary access to the network.
It also has Firewall-As-A-Service (FWAAAS) with AI, which provides intrusions prevention, DNS security, sandboxing and application of policies for users outside the network, with detection driven by AI in APT blockr and gateway antivirus to stop advanced threats in real time.
Thanks to Secure Web Gateway (SWG), it has URL filtering, application control and Shadow IT management through TLS inspection. Firecloud Total Access simplifies the emission and validation of cloud certificates, guaranteeing an examination of encrypted traffic against phishing, malware and visits to risk sites, without increasing operational load.
Firecloud Total Access is also integrated with Authpoint (MFA/SSO), Threatsync (XDR) and Watchguard Endpoint Security to implement Zero Trust in identity, endpoints and networks, all managed from Watchguard Cloud. It does not require hardware or the complexity of configuring a VPN. Policies and protections are delivered instantly through Watchguard Cloud for rapid and scalable implantation.
The MSPS and IT teams have with this multi-teenant management solution, inheritance of policies and reports ready to use. The user license is aligned with the recurring income models of the partners, offering an approach as affordable with business levels.
Andrew Young, Chief Product Officer de WatchGuardhe pointed out that «Remote work and hybrid networks have come to stay, and organizations need a simpler way to apply Zero Trust while protecting users anywhere. Firecloud Total Access allows the MSPS and small IT equipment to deploy in hours, apply consistent policies from Watchguard Cloud and replace the traditional VPN of total access to the network by access by application based on the identity -based application«.
