Security News > 2021 > February > You don't have clearance for that: Microsoft ups the paranoia with a preview of Azure Firewall Premium

Microsoft has unveiled a preview of Azure Firewall Premium, aimed at highly sensitive and regulated environments.

Azure Firewall was Microsoft's attempt to sling a virtual arm over the shoulders of harassed administrators while whispering "There now, don't worry about all that pesky firewall configuration stuff, let us take care of it" in its most seductive tone.

While the standard Firewall service will categorise by fully qualified domain name, it once again requires the premium version to be a little more granular and delve down into a complete URL. More interesting is the intrusion detection and prevention system, which will look for malicious network activity, report it and optionally try to block it.

In terms of management, a new Firewall policy tier has been added, comprising Standard and Premium policies.

Although Firewall Classic rules remain supported, Microsoft is keen that customers use the Migrate to Firewall policy option to shift rules to the new tier.

Although the Firewall Policy Standard tier is Generally Available and provides a full SLA, the additional Premium toys remain in preview.

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