{"id":1181,"date":"2022-06-15T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T10:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:18:45","slug":"managed-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/blog\/managed-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Things You Need to Know about Managed Firewall Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Is A Managed Firewall?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you may already know, a firewall prevents malicious attacks and viruses from accessing your business IT network. You can ensure that attacks don&#8217;t get through by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/network-monitoring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">monitoring the network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> traffic in and out of your business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A managed firewall is something that is looked after by your IT support provider. They can customize it and configure it to ensure that your entire IT network is safeguarded at all times. They can also automatically update security patches while installing the latest and greatest technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do You Need A Managed Firewalls?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any business that has access to the internet and requires IT data capture should have a firewall or three in place. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/managed-firewall-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Managed firewall services <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allow your business to be safe from hackers who can exploit the vulnerabilities in your network. They do this to steal data and bring down your internal structure, which can lead to losing your business. When you choose managed firewall services, you choose to ensure that your firewalls are set up, maintained, and monitored regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Managed Firewall Vulnerabilities Now<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/blog\/the-different-types-of-firewall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">different types of firewall<\/a> vulnerabilities, and they can be caused by mistakes in the way the firewall operates, or by the configuration and upkeep of the firewall itself. Finding the weaknesses in your firewall is not always easy, so managed firewalls services are the way to go. You can have a whole team of experts working for you to ensure that your firewalls remain intact. Finding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/learn\/security\/what-is-vulnerability-assessment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vulnerabilities<\/a> in your firewall isn&#8217;t always simple, as there are different testing methods to identify them. You can use tools to help, and they can identify the significant vulnerabilities in your firewalls that need patching up!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A suite of tools will not guarantee that you can find the vulnerabilities, which is why managed firewall services are a must! Along with this, you need a comprehensive plan for testing your firewalls and understanding the network architecture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Are The Benefits?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are considerable benefits to managed firewalls services, and these include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Keeping Out Hackers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Most business leaders don&#8217;t realize how devastating firewall breaches can be to their business. It&#8217;s why so many small businesses don&#8217;t bother with the investment. The thing is, they are imperative to keeping out hackers and having data stolen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Staying Safe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We live in a digital world, which means that as much as we are developing technology, we also see new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/blog\/cybersecurity-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cyber threats<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> daily. If you don&#8217;t install the latest firewalls, you&#8217;re going to put your business at risk. If you use managed firewalls, you&#8217;re going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/blog\/reasons-to-outsource-cybersecurity-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outsource<\/a> that responsibility and keep your business secure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Disaster Recovery<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Firewalls reduce the risk of attack on your business massively. However, if you do have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/blog\/top-7-major-causes-of-it-downtime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">downtime<\/a> that you can&#8217;t avoid, you can lean on an emergency disaster recovery strategy to get your business moving again.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Restricting Access<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If you know that internal employees will access your data, a firewall that has been correctly managed will protect your business from the risk of domestic attacks. If you restrict who can access individual pieces of data, you protect your business better.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Much Managed Firewall Services Can Save You<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cost and budgets are two big question marks when it comes to managed firewall services. You want the best protection, but you have a budget to keep. You need to assess the risk of your business being attacked and go for the managed firewall service that will prevent that as much as possible. You can go cheap on your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extnoc.com\/blog\/12-reasons-to-choose-firewall-as-a-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">firewall service<\/a> and congratulate yourself for saving money, but if your business is then attacked, you&#8217;ll spend more getting it up and running once again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider the costs of the service vs. the price of not having one!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why A Business Needs Managed Firewall Support<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without the right firewalls in place, your business could be attacked, and it could cost you in the long term. By choosing to have managed firewall support, you choose someone else to manage it and give yourself your time back to do other business-related activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No solution is one-size-fits-all, as every business needs something different. Finding the right managed firewall services will ensure that you get the right solutions, strategy, and configurations that your business needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Managed Firewall Services Prevent Cyber Attacks<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a managed firewall service, you are getting 24\/7 protection from a provider who knows how to set up the right protection for your business. You want to keep your business moving, and managed firewalls services are the way to gain that security that you need.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is A Managed Firewall? 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