Tag: Secure Virtual Hub

Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Building and Managing Distributed Micro-Perimeters With Azure Firewall

Speaker: Yair Tor, Principal Program Manager

Azure Firewall

Cloud native stateful firewall as a service. A first among public cloud providers.

  • Central governance of all traffic flows
    • Built in high availability and auto scale
    • Network and application traffic filtering
    • Centralized policy across VNets and subscriptions
  • Complete VNet protection
    • Filter outbound, inbound, spoke-spoke
  • Centralized logging
  • Best for Azure

Key Features

  • Application Rules
  • Fully stateful network rules
  • NAT support
  • Threat Intelligence (GA this week)
  • Monitoring
  • Support for inbound and hybrid connections
  • Network Watcher integration

Azure Firewall Updates

  • Recently released
    • Multiple public IPs GA – up ot 100
    • Availability zones now GA (99.99% SLA)
    • Threat Intelligence based filtering now GA
    • Azure HDInsight (HDI) FQDN tag GA
    • TDS (SQL) FQDN filtering in Preview
  • Sovereign Clouds
    • US Gov
    • China
  • Coming soon: tentative ETA H2 CY 2019
    • FQDN filtering for all ports and protocols
    • Native forced tunnelling support
    • IP groups in Azure Firewall rules – coming to NSG and UDR too.

Azure Firewall Manager – See Previous Post

Preview

  • Central deployment and configuration
  • Automated routing
  • Advanced security with 3rd party SECaaS

Roadmap:

  • Virtual network support – this is the legacy form of Azure Firewall that is not the new Azure vWAN Hub Azure Firewall.
  • Split routing

Public Preview

  • Extend your security edge to Azure with Secured Virtual Hubs.
  • A secured virtual hub is an azure Virtual WAN Hub with associated security and routing policies configured by Azure Firewall Manager.
  • Easily create hub-and-spoke architectures with cloud native security services for traffic governance and protection.
  • Azure Firewall now integrated with Virtual WAN Hubs.
  • Secured virtual hub can be used as a managed central network with no on-prem connectivity.
  • There is no resource called Security Virtual Hub – it’s more of a deployment/concept. If you did a JSON deployment, it would use legacy resources.

Getting Started with Secured Virtual Hubs

One method:

  1. Create your hub and spoke architecture
  2. Select security providers: Done by secured virtual hub creation or by converting a Virtual WaN hub to secure virtual hub.
  3. Create a firewall policy and associate it with your hub: applicable only if using Azure Firewall
  4. Configure route settings on your secured hub to attract traffic: Easily attract traffic to the firewall from the spoke VNets – BGP!

Demo

Network rules are always processed before application rules in Azure Firewall. Inherited policy cannot allow stuff that parent policy denies.

Central Security and Route Policy Management

  • Deploy and configure multiple Azure Firewall instances
  • DevOps optimized hierarchical Azure Firewall Policies
  • Centralized routing configuration

GA Pricing

  • Preview has 50% discount
  • Azure Firewall in secure virtual hubs will be the same price as normal Azure Firewall
  • $100 per policy for policies that are associated with multiple hubs. No cost with policies associated with single hubs.
  • Fixed fee for outbound VPN to SECaaS partners in addition to a VPN scale unit charge.