Athena NGFW (Next-Generation Firewall)

Athena NGFW (previously known as Network Secure) provides comprehensive protection for every network perimeter, ensuring the safety of your valuable assets, data, and users from emerging threats.
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Configuration Steps

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• Microsoft Azure

  1. Create a resource group.
  2. Create a virtual network.
  3. Create a network security group and configure a security rule.
  4. Create a virtual network gateway.
  5. Create a local network gateway.
  6. Create a VPN connection.

• Athena NGFW

  1. Configure the interface IP addresses.
  2. Create a VPN tunnel interface, and associate the interface with the corresponding zones.
  1. Configure an application control policy to allow business traffic from zones associated with the Internet-facing interface, internal-facing interface, and VPN tunnel interface.
  2. Enable the VPN service, and add a VPN link.
  3. Create an IPsec VPN tunnel.
  4. Configure a route to route traffic to the VPN tunnel interface.