One of a hybrid mesh firewall’s most beneficial and unique components is its centralized and unified management. From this management console, hybrid mesh firewalls coordinate protection across each IT domain (corporate sites, public and private clouds, and remote workers). This allows enterprise IT to automate numerous protection capabilities without duplicating efforts, having to re-create policies, or investing needless manual hours when a cybersecurity skills gap already constrains resources.

Many firewall products today cannot support hybrid mesh firewall capabilities, forcing enterprise IT end users to purchase separate security solutions for corporate sites, public and private cloud environments, and remote workers. A study showed the average number of security tools deployed by organizations has increased by 30% in the past 3 years, often more than 75 tools from a multitude of vendors. This creates operational complexity which increases the operational inefficiency and vulnerabilities.

In addition to complexity, point products add to organizational risk due to their long ramp times. Having multiple point products only increases the time your cybersecurity IT staff needs to spend learning new features and dashboards. This puts enterprises at even greater risks, as over one-third of cybersecurity roles remain unfilled due to the global talent gap.