Google Cloud NGFW

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Automation interfaces

Google Cloud documents APIs and the gcloud CLI for Cloud NGFW and provides Terraform guidance for hierarchical firewall policy configuration.docs.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Central management

Yescloud.google.com · read 22 Sep 2026

Data protection

Google Cloud states that it encrypts data in transit between its facilities and at rest, with access to encryption keys limited to authorized roles and services with audited access.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Distributed inspection

Cloud NGFW uses a fully distributed, stateful inspection firewall engine built into Google Cloud's software-defined networking fabric and enforced at each workload.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Documentation and support

Cloud NGFW documentation provides quickstarts, guides, references, troubleshooting help, quotas and limits, billing questions, training, and code samples.docs.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Domain filtering

FQDN-based objects filter traffic by domain even when the underlying IP addresses change.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Dynamic policy objects

Google Cloud Threat Intelligence lists, FQDN objects, and geolocation objects are curated by Google, constantly updated, and automatically applied in firewall rules that call them.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Endpoint limits

Firewall endpoints support a maximum of 250 Mbps per connection with TLS inspection and 1.25 Gbps without TLS inspection.docs.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Intended workloads

Cloud NGFW is designed to protect Google Cloud workloads against external threats from the internet and internal threats within the network.docs.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Micro-segmentation

IAM-governed tags provide granular control over north-south and east-west traffic down to a single VM across VPCs and organizations.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Outbound control

advancedcloud.google.com · read 22 Sep 2026

Policy hierarchy

Network firewall policies are global by default, apply to all regions, and can be defined at organization, folder, and project levels with hierarchical firewall policies.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Rule direction

bothcloud.google.com · read 22 Sep 2026

Security and compliance

Google Cloud states that its compliance offerings include ISO/IEC 27001/27017/27018/27701, SOC 1/2/3, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR alignment, and HIPAA alignment.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Threat intelligence integration

Cloud NGFW can block traffic using curated malicious IP and domain lists aggregated from Google, third-party, and open-source feeds.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

Threat prevention

Cloud NGFW Enterprise provides an intrusion detection and prevention service powered by Palo Alto Networks that protects against malware, spyware, and command-and-control attacks.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

TLS inspection

Cloud NGFW supports TLS interception and decryption for inspecting selected encrypted inbound, outbound, and internal Google Cloud traffic.docs.cloud.google.com · read 28 Sep 2026

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