As enterprises increasingly migrate mission-critical workloads to Microsoft Azure, securing cloud infrastructure requires more than traditional perimeter security. Organizations must rethink network segmentation, traffic inspection, secure connectivity and high availability in dynamic cloud environments.

This session explores how virtual Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) can strengthen Azure’s native security capabilities and provide additional layers of protection for enterprise workloads.

We will examine virtual firewall deployment architectures on Azure, including network topology, subnet segmentation, routing, inbound and outbound traffic inspection, high availability, and site-to-site VPN connectivity.

The session will also explore practical deployment considerations across Azure VM families, network interface requirements, scalability, performance, licensing and operational challenges.

Through architecture examples and practical demonstrations, attendees will understand how to design resilient cloud network security architectures using virtual NGFWs alongside Azure-native security services.

The focus is on practical architecture decisions, deployment patterns and lessons learned rather than a product demonstration.