Abstract: Systems and methods for configuring a network security device. The methods include deploying a network security device on a network, wherein the network security device includes a network security device interface; accessing, via the network security device interface, a first cloud-based computing platform configured to request from a first library metadata associated with a first network resource on the first cloud-based computing platform; receiving at the network security device interface the metadata associated with the first network resource; and configuring the network security device in accord with the metadata associated with the first network resource.

Abstract: Threat management devices and methods for a containerized firewall. The methods may include receiving instructions to configure a web application firewall being executed within a first container-based architecture, wherein the received instructions include changes to a previous network traffic policy; storing the received instructions as a changelog that indicates an updated network traffic policy to be implemented by the web application firewall; and communicating the updated network traffic policy to a first object store associated with the first container-based architecture and to a proxy service associated with the web application firewall.