Hillstone Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF)

Hillstone Networks Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF) Professional Service is designed to deliver next-generation firewall security as a cloud-native security service for AWS environments. Built on the technology foundation of Hillstone CloudEdge cloud NGFW and SaaS-based firewall management platform, Hillstone CNF combines advanced network protection with centralized management, scalable and resilient security services, and integration with AWS cloud security workflows.

• Industry-Leading NGFW: Hillstone CNF provides comprehensive next-generation firewall security capabilities, including intrusion prevention, antivirus, application control, URL filtering, attack defense, VPN, SSL inspection, and advanced threat protection. Based on Hillstone CloudEdge cloud-based firewall security technologies, these capabilities are designed to protect traffic, workloads, and applications in virtualized and public cloud environments.
• Simplified Management: Hillstone CNF is designed to provide a centralized management experience for cloud firewall services and security policies. Administrators can manage CNF instances, protected cloud resources, security policies, configurations, monitoring, and licensing through a unified platform, helping simplify day-to-day cloud security operations. Hillstone SaaS-based firewall management platform provides the underlying centralized management capabilities for Hillstone security services, including device management, policy management, configuration management, monitoring, and operational visibility.
• Scalability & Resiliency: Hillstone CNF is designed to scale security protection as cloud environments grow and workloads change, supporting distributed AWS environments across multiple VPCs, subnets, and availability zones. The cloud-native architecture is designed to support elastic security capacity, high availability, and resilient firewall services without requiring customers to manually manage individual firewall infrastructure.
• Security Management & Cloud Integration: Hillstone CNF is designed to integrate with AWS cloud networking and security workflows, including traffic steering and security service insertion, while enabling centralized orchestration of security services and policies. Hillstone CloudEdge cloud firewall provides the underlying capabilities for automated deployment, service orchestration, license management, and REST API-based configuration of system, network, and security policies.