Virtual Firewalls Workshop

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Anything is marketed as a virtual firewall these days, from contexts on physical boxes to hypervisor kernel modules and VMs with a kitschy GUI in front of Linux iptables.

This workshop will walk you through the virtual firewalls taxonomy, describe the major architectural options, and illustrate typical use cases with products from vendors like Cisco, Microsoft and VMware.

If you’re a network or security architect, designer or implementation engineer working in virtualized environments, or involved in design or deployment of public or private clouds, this workshop is a must-have overview of available technologies, deployment scenarios, and scalability concerns.

Topics Covered

The workshop covers these topics:

• Firewall taxonomy (routed versus bump-in-the-wire, various levels of statefulness);
• Virtual contexts on physical devices versus virtual firewalls;
• Virtual appliance firewalls;
• VM NIC firewalls and sample products;
• Third-party plugins for VM NIC firewalls;
• Service insertion and service chaining;
• Virtual firewalls in private or public cloud environments.

Takeaways

After attending this workshop you'll be able to:

• Identify common virtual firewall implementations and their benefits and drawbacks;
• Evaluate vendor architectures and their applicability in your environment;
• Select the virtual firewall solution meeting your requirements.

Who Should Attend

This workshop targets network or security architects, designer or implementation engineer who are:

• Working in virtualized environments;
• Involved in design or deployment of public or private clouds;
• Evaluating the next-generation virtual firewall solutions.

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