At a high level, NGFWs provide comprehensive application visibility and control, can distinguish between dangerous and safe applications, and can help prevent malware from penetrating a network. What are the benefits of a next generation firewall?Ĭompared to traditional firewalls, there are myriad benefits to be aware of. However, without a consensus from the security industry about what a next-gen firewall is and what it is not, organizations must look at all the features and decide if the solution fits their business needs.
Look around at the different firewall solutions today, and you’ll discover that most vendors label their solution as NGFWs. Many NGFWs are also capable of integrating with modern networking topologies like software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN). The feature set for NGFWs build upon traditional firewall features by including critical security functions like intrusion prevention, VPN, and anti-virus, and even encrypted web traffic inspection to help prevent packets containing malicious content from entering the network. But NGFWs, uninhibited by the same technology limits, take advantage of significant advancements in storage space, memory, and processing speeds. Sunil will evaluate the limitations that organizations have with NGFWaaS (Next-Generation Firewall as a Service) and what you can do to overcome limitations to bolster your security posture.Traditional firewalls have been around for decades. Join Sunil Ravi, Chief Security Architect with Versa Networks, as he examines how traditional NGFW techniques like sandboxing, deep packet inspection, network segmentation, and web caching can be extended to the cloud to protect against modern attacks.
Given that COVID has made it normal for users to work-from-anywhere, enterprises looking to protect their critical assets need to extend advanced NGFW protection mechanisms to their cloud infrastructure, which comes with its own limitations and complexities. Or is it? As organizations leverage more data and workloads in the cloud, the security perimeter that traditional NGFW vendors protected seems to be a relic of the past. With Sunil Ravi, Chief Security Architect Evaluating the Efficacy of NGFW Techniques in the Cloud On-Demand Webinar (58 min)
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