What is network security?

Firewalls and security groups are important in securing your cloud environment and the information stored in it, as well as preventing malicious activity from reaching your servers or users.

Features

• **Enhanced control: **With security groups, easily define security policies at the instance level for virtual firewall protection.
• **Customized for your needs: **Quickly and easily accommodate your security needs with a variety of hardware-based firewalls and scalable security groups.
• **On demand: **Maintain your essential layer of protection and provision your firewalls on the fly without interrupting your service — when you need to and how you prefer.

Editions

• **IBM Cloud® Internet Services: **Discover edge network services for securing internet-facing apps from DDoS attacks, data theft and bot attacks.
• **IBM Cloud security groups: **Security groups can easily add instance-level security to manage traffic on public and private network interfaces.
• **FortiGate Security Appliance 10 Gbps: **Secure your enterprise workloads in a reliable, powerful and consolidated way to manage and control your network.
• **Firewalls: **Prevent unwanted traffic from hitting your servers and reduce your attack surface.