Compare F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator vs. discrimiNAT Firewall

Malicious entities exploit SSL/TLS encryption to conceal harmful payloads and evade security measures. To shield your organization from potential threats, it is essential to employ security solutions capable of efficiently inspecting encrypted traffic on a large scale. The BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator offers robust decryption for both incoming and outgoing SSL/TLS traffic, allowing for thorough security inspections that reveal dangers and thwart attacks before they can occur. Enhance your infrastructure and security investments by utilizing dynamic, policy-driven decryption, encryption, and traffic management through your security inspection tools. Safeguard against outbound traffic that may spread malware, steal data, or connect to command-and-control servers to instigate attacks. By decrypting incoming encrypted traffic, you can confirm that it does not contain ransomware, malware, or other threats that can lead to breaches, infections, and security incidents. Additionally, this approach helps eliminate new security blind spots and provides increased flexibility without necessitating significant architectural modifications. Overall, maintaining a proactive stance on encryption inspection is essential for comprehensive cybersecurity.

The discrimiNAT provides a solution for the inability to define hostnames or fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) within Google Cloud Firewall Rules and AWS Security Groups, enabling effective scalable egress filtering. By employing a Deep Packet Inspection engine, it monitors and blocks traffic without decryption, functioning as a high-availability NAT Instance at the egress point of your VPC network. We have designed the setup for this firewall to be incredibly user-friendly; you simply need to list the permitted destination FQDNs in the outbound rules of your applications, and the firewall manages everything else seamlessly. For a clearer understanding of its simplicity, check out the brief video demonstrations available. Our solution supports everything from complete multi-zone network setups that can be deployed with a single click, equipped with sensible defaults, to customizable instance deployments, allowing users to tailor their networking configurations as needed. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive collection of templates ready for immediate use in our CloudFormation library for AWS and as a Deployment Manager template for Google Cloud, ensuring that users can easily get started with powerful and efficient security measures.