Firewall-as-a-Service vs. Traditional Firewalls: Which Wins?
Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) reimagines the firewall as a cloud-delivered service rather than a box bolted into every office and data center. Instead of routing traffic through on-premises appliances, organizations steer it — from remote users, branch sites, and cloud workloads — to a provider's globally distributed points of presence, where next-generation inspection and filtering happen before traffic reaches its destination.