Scalable and Elastic Protection
for Hybrid Environments
Hillstone Hybrid Mesh Firewall (HMF) Solution
Scalable, Streamlined and Elastic Protection for Hybrid Environments
Today’s enterprises face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges amid their shift to hybrid cloud architectures, distributed workforces, and edge computing: increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats and blind spots, expanded attack surfaces from cloud migration, ineffective protection against surging east-west traffic, inconsistent management across physical, virtual and cloud deployments, etc. These challenges have rendered traditional perimeter-based security obsolete for boardless boundaries. Businesses urgently need a solution adaptable to dynamic hybrid environments—making Hybrid Mesh Firewall (HMF) solution indispensable to eliminate complexity and risk of managing disjointed point.
What is Hybrid Mesh Firewall?
Hybrid Mesh Firewall (HMF) represents a unified security solution that functions seamlessly across multi-deployment mode firewall—including hardware, virtual appliance and cloud-based options—all centrally orchestrated through a cloud-based management console. It is engineered for dynamic, hybrid environments, providing advanced threat protection, centralized visibility and streamlined operations to diverse enterprise IT areas such as corporate sites, data centers, multi-cloud, and remote workers, etc. It is the essential architecture for transforming security from a source of operational friction into a streamlined, adaptive foundation for business growth.
Why Hybrid Mesh Firewall is a Must?
A Hybrid Mesh Firewall (HMF) is the essential solution to organizations’ complexities: fragmented visibility and inconsistent policy enforcement across hybrid environments including on-premises, cloud, edge, etc. It unifies disparate security controls into a single, cohesive fabric, eliminating the “security gaps” those attackers exploit in fragmented setups. By centralizing management, HMF allows you to deploy a “write-once, apply-anywhere” policy. This drastically reduces operational overhead while ensuring a robust, identical security posture across your entire digital estate—regardless of where your data lives.
Hillstone’s HMF Solution
The Hillstone Hybrid Management Firewall (HMF) solution establishes a unified security architecture by integrating various firewall appliances (NGFW, DCFW, etc.), virtual/cloud firewall (CloudEdge), and container firewall (CloudArmour). Centrally managed via the Hillstone CloudView centralized cloud management platform, it enables real-time visibility and analytics, threat prevention, security management and policy synchronization across physical, virtual, and containerized environments. This synergy consolidates diverse security resources, providing consistent protection and operational efficiency throughout the entire hybrid infrastructure.
Hillstone HMF Value Proposition
Centralized Cloud Management:
Hillstone CloudView serves as the central orchestration hub for the HMF architecture, providing a streamlined “register-and-use” SecOps experience. It delivers unified management across Hillstone native security products—firewalls, WAF, ADC, etc.—and third-party firewalls. Through a single pane of glass, CloudView ensures consistent policy synchronization across hybrid environments, while enables automates security provisioning within DevOps pipelines via native CI/CD integration. By consolidating real-time posture monitoring, risk asset management, and proactive health analytics, it transforms fragmented infrastructures into a cohesive security fabric, maximizing operation and maintenance (O&M) efficiency and visiblity across complex digital estates.
Industry-leading Hardware Security Foundation:
leading hardware firewall portfolio engineered for diverse environments, from corporate edges to high-traffic data centers and industrial sites. Leveraging the advanced hardware architecture and proprietary ASIC technology, Hillstone firewall appliance delivers high-density interfaces, high throughput, ultra-low latency and energy efficiency with maximum stability required by modern organizations. By consolidating essential security functions like IPS, AV, and DDoS protection, it eliminates gaps across physical deployments, ensuring the rigorous scalability and elastic protection needed to safeguard today’s complex hybrid infrastructures.
Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Protection for Virtualized Workloads:
Hillstone CloudEdge provides a cloud security foundation for HMF, delivering high-performance protection across private, public, and hybrid clouds. Compatible with major hypervisors and platforms like KVM, AWS and Azure, it enables rapid, scalable deployment to secure dynamic enterprise workloads. CloudEdge eliminates blind spots by inspecting North-South and East-West traffic, leveraging StoneOS for consistent security across environments. Through API-driven orchestration, it offers granular protection that migrates with workloads, ensuring zero-gap coverage. This synergy streamlines multi-cloud operations, providing a secure, resilient foundation for continuous digital growth.
Purpose-built Container Security Foundation:
Hillstone CloudArmour fortifies the HMF architecture with specialized container defense, extending zero-trust across Kubernetes and multi-cloud workloads. By combining real-time asset management and continuous image scanning, it guarantees only trusted artifacts reach production. CloudArmour also employs granular micro-segmentation and runtime protection to secure lateral traffic, eliminating visibility gaps. Additionally, it automates policy generation through attack surface management and traffic modeling capabilities. This maintains a unified security posture from edges to microservices, enabling scalable and compliant cloud native defense for enterprises.
AI-Driven Intelligent Operations and Analytics:
The Hillstone AI platform integrates multiple security agents to infuse full-stack intelligence across different aspects. Acting as a built-in expert, the firewall-integrated AI assistant simplifies complex O&M tasks through conversational interaction—from expert knowledge queries to threat analysis, policy optimization and guided configuration and troubleshooting. With more capabilities like proactive health monitoring and contextual knowledge retrieval, it empowers administrators to resolve intricate issues with precision. This intelligent layer transforms the hybrid mesh fabric into a streamlined and adaptive foundation for sustainable business growth.
Advanced Security Capabilities and Converged Solutions:
Hillstone HMF seamlessly integrates multiple premium security capabilities and critical solutions to fortify hybrid environment. ML-based DNS utilizes intelligent analytics and threat intelligence to neutralize sophisticated queries and automate isolation. SD-WAN combines deep traffic context with zero-touch provisioning for agile network connection and resilient edge protection. Furthermore, Universal ZTNA enforces identity-aware, least-privileged access through high-availability distributed gateways. These integrated solutions and capabilities ensure a consistent security posture across every corner of the modern hybrid enterprise.
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