The speed of business today has enterprises and their IT departments scrambling to manage their adoption of digital transformation technologies and keep up with the competition.

Being cloud ready is a significant part of that growth as organisations begin to understand that although the cloud is able to disrupt many old ways of data storage and software solutions, security is a major issue that needs to be addressed.

Case in point; firewalls. Existing traditional firewalls developed to protect a fixed, on-premise network, are not built to effectively handle cloud applications. This opens up the business to attacks and losses of potentially millions of dollars in revenue.

This briefing note will look at how next generation firewalls (NGFW) are the answer to protecting businesses as they become cloud ready. We will look at how Barracuda, a leader in securing business data in this digital era, is able to give you that protection through their CloudGen Firewall.