HPE bolsters hybrid mesh firewall platform

“Hybrid mesh firewalls provide unified, multi-factor firewall security, giving organizations consistent policies, visibility, and compliance across on-premises, cloud, and remote environments. With hardware appliances, virtual firewalls, cloud-native firewalls, and firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) under a single management plane, teams can apply the same rules everywhere to reduce gaps and complexity,” Lanza wrote.

HPE Hybrid Mesh Firewalls are controlled by the company’s management platform, HPE Juniper Networking Security Director. “Improvements to the chatbot within Juniper Security Director now make it easier for any IT operator to understand security posture and review and implement changes, without dedicated security experience,” Lanza wrote. He gave examples of how operators can query the bot in natural language and receive guidance on topics with queries such as:

• Provision the SRX for {vendor} cloud deployment
• Import policies from…