
Cisco’s Valtix Acquisition Is More Than Multi-Cloud Firewalls
Gartner's Nat Smith noted Valtix's technology connects into the plumbing of the public clouds to protect each individual workload.
Executives claim the custom ASICs play a big part in the vendor's firewall market dominance and have become a unique differentiator.
Data centers raids are rare, but cybercriminals love hijacking legit cloud instances
The firewall is managed by Fortinet and taps its FortiOS operating system and FortiGuard threat intelligence capabilities.