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My internet service provider suggested to host my firewalls for me. Are there any risks to replace on premise firewalls with a hosted one. I don't have technical stuff in my remote offices so it's great to not to have too much eqipment there. But am not very familiar with the risks associated with this and the SP is just trying to sell their services so will be great to get a second opinion esp from someone who has done this before.<br />
Thank you!
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My internet service provider suggested to host my firewalls for me. Are there any risks to replace on premise firewalls with a hosted one. I don't have technical stuff in my remote offices so it's great to not to have too much eqipment there. But am not very familiar with the risks associated with this and the SP is just trying to sell their services so will be great to get a second opinion esp from someone who has done this before.
Thank you!

Firewall in the cloud

Hardware-based firewalls provide more sophisticated protection for inbound and outbound traffic than the simple Windows software firewall or the basic NAT firewalls found in routers. These devices implement techniques such as stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and content filtering; and may include built-in antivirus and anti-malware protection.

Hardware Firewalls

Cloud computing, also known as on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing where shared resources and information are provided to computers and other devices. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in third-party data centers, relying on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale.

Cloud Computing

Software firewalls, also known as host-based firewalls, provide a layer of software on one host that controls network traffic in and out of that single machine. Most operating systems now include firewall software, but many available software firewalls include central distribution, antivirus systems and disaster recovery.