Threat Protection & Detection Solutions
Network Security & Next-Generation Firewalls
Know what crosses your network, and decide what is allowed. Flat networks and ageing rule bases let an attacker move as freely as your own traffic. Next-generation firewalls, secure remote access and segmented internal traffic put a policy between every connection — one that is written around your applications rather than around IP addresses nobody remembers.
In short
- Application-aware policy instead of port-and-protocol guesswork
- Secure remote access without exposing the whole network
- Rule bases that are reviewed, cleaned and kept current
Delivered by named specialists, documented end to end.
What you get
The solution, in concrete terms.
Named specialists, documented work, measurable progress.
Next-generation firewalling
Traffic controlled by application, user and content — with intrusion prevention, TLS inspection and threat feeds applied where they earn their keep.
Perimeter and data centre design
Zones, trust boundaries and failover designed for how your business actually works, and documented so the next engineer can follow it.
Secure remote access
Access to the applications a person needs, verified per session, instead of a VPN tunnel that lands them on the inside of everything.
Internal segmentation
North-south control at the edge, east-west control between workloads — so a single compromised host does not become a free run of the estate.
Rule base hygiene
Shadowed, permissive and forgotten rules found and removed, with changes tested before they reach production.
Run and improve
Sciber specialists operate the platform day to day, follow vendor releases and keep the configuration moving forward instead of ageing.
The firewall is only as good as the policy in it
Most environments do not fail because the firewall is weak. They fail because the rule base grew for a decade, nobody dares remove anything, and remote access was widened in a hurry. We start by understanding the traffic that exists, then tighten policy in steps you can verify, so security improves without an outage on Monday morning.
- Map real traffic before writing policy.
- Tighten in stages, with a way back at every step.
- Remove rules that are shadowed, unused or far too broad.
- Document every decision so the design survives staff changes.
Part of a zero trust estate
Network control is one layer. It works best next to microsegmentation between workloads and secure service edge for users and applications, so the same principle — verify, then allow only what is needed — applies from the user's laptop all the way to the workload. Sciber can design it, operate it, or both.
Delivered in partnership with
Palo Alto Networks provides the next-generation firewall platform; Sciber's specialists design the zones, write the policy, run the change process and keep the rule base honest over time.
Palo Alto Networks
Next-generation firewalling, intrusion prevention and secure remote access
Sciber
Design, migration, day-to-day operation and continuous policy improvement
You
A network where every connection is allowed on purpose
Next step
Put a decision behind every connection
Send us your current design and rule base, and we will tell you where the risk sits, what can be tightened first and what it takes to run it well.
Segment. Inspect. Allow on purpose.