NGFWs are different from traditional firewalls due to certain core benefits such as advanced security and intelligent breach prevention, detailed network visibility, automation, integrations, and vulnerability detection. Continue reading to learn more about the core features of NGFWs along with the top service providers.
Many types of firewalls exist out there: packet-filtering, circuit-level gateways, stateful inspection, proxy, next-generation firewalls, and others. Understanding their key functions, their strengths and weaknesses, and where you should use them is key to getting the right firewall for your business. Learn this information and more in this article.
Firewall as a service (FWaaS) refers to an on-demand cloud-based service that serves organizations just like a typical on-premise firewall service.
When enabling firewall and VMs in your Azure Storage accounts, make sure you follow these best practices or you may get a few pesky error messages.
Here’s how to manage firewall and virtual networks in a Storage Account and how to use Azure Automation to enforce security in an entire subscription.
In this blog post, we are going over a simple script that can be used as an Azure runbook to manage your Azure Firewall — and save you money on resources.
Firewall Analyzer is policy analysis, configuration and log reporting software. Firewall Analyzer does the following:
<> Provides analysis of firewall policies and rules
<> Maintains a log of configuration changes
<> Performs regular audit compliance checks
<> Monitors employee internet usage
<> Alerts security events in real-time
<> Displays the current security status of firewalls
<> Performs periodic security audits
Sophos XG Firewall provides comprehensive next-generation firewall protection that exposes hidden risks, blocks unknown threats, and automatically responds to incidents.
Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) combines fast, flexible networking (SD-WAN and LAN) with industry-leading security to connect and protect people and the data they use throughout diverse, evolving enterprise networks. Forcepoint NGFW provides consistent security, performance and operations across physical, virtual and cloud systems. It’s designed from the ground up for high availability and scalability, as well as centralized management with full 360° visibility.
NextGen UTM-Firewalls provide companies with secure Internet access. They are a perfect fit for the structure and protection of modern company networks. Efficient IT security applications (firewall, VPN-Gateway, two virus/malware scanners, high-end spam filter, real-time content filter for web and email, Zero-Hour-Protection, IDS, authentication etc.) ensure a secure network operation across the board. A UTM system, at one central point, protects the entire network.
