What is a next-generation firewall?
A typical firewall inspects network traffic in real-time. It filters traffic based on administrator-defined criteria and allows or bans traffic based on state, port, and protocol.
This, and much more, is what a next-generation firewall (NGFW) does. NGFWs can also block modern threats like advanced malware and application-layer attacks, in addition to access control.
According to Gartner's definition, a next-generation firewall must include:
- Standard firewall capabilities like stateful inspection
- Integrated intrusion prevention
- Application awareness and control to see and block risky apps
- Threat intelligence sources
- Upgrade paths to include future information feeds
- Techniques to address evolving security threats
Aspire Tech Next-Generation Firewalls
This unique ability empowers you to safely enable applications, make informed decisions on network access, and strengthen your network security.
Next-generation firewalls provide flexible deployment options for your network. Firewall platforms, available in hardware and virtualized platforms, support the same consistent next-generation firewall features available in PAN-OSTM.
In addition, Panorama management platforms for centralized policy and device management over a network of next-generation firewalls are also available in both virtualized and hardware platforms.
Aspire offers a range of next-generation firewalls. Find out how our firewalls safely enable your business, improve network security, and simplify your workload.
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Key safe enablement requirements:
Identify applications, not ports. Classify traffic, as soon as it hits the firewall, to determine the application identity, irrespective of protocol, encryption, or evasive tactic. Then use that identity as the basis for all security policies.
Tie application usage to user identity, not IP address, regardless of location or device. Employ user and group information from enterprise directories and other user stores to deploy consistent enablement policies for all your users, regardless of location or device.
Protest against all threats—both known and unknown. Prevent known vulnerability exploits, malware, spyware, malicious URLs while analyzing traffic for, and automatically delivering protection against highly targeted and previously unknown malware.
Simplify policy management. Safely enable applications and reduce administrative efforts with easy-to-use graphical tools, a unified policy editor, templates, and device groups.
Product feature list:
System & Deployment
- Application Visibility & Control (ACC)
- User Visibility & Control
- IPS
- APT Prevention
- Anti-Malware
- Command & Control
- Passive DNS
- Data Filtering
- Policy Control
- Decryption
- Automated Correlation Engine
- Exploit Protection
System & Deployment
- IPv6
- VPN
- Network Integration
System & Deployment
- Logging and Reporting
System & Deployment
- Virtual Systems
- Redundancy
- Integration and Automation
The next-gen firewall is a high-performance network security appliance
The next-gen firewall is a high-performance network security appliance that adds intrusion prevention, application and user visibility, SSL inspection, and unknown threat detection to the traditional firewall.
- Enforce security policies with granular control and visibility of users and devices for thousands of discrete applications
- Identify and stop threats with powerful intrusion prevention beyond port and protocol that examines the actual content of your network traffic
- Perform high-performance SSL inspection using industry-mandated ciphers
- Proactively detect malicious unknown code using our cloud-based sandbox service
- Provide you with real-time views into network activity with actionable application and risk dashboards and reports
- Deliver superior, multi-function performance by running on purpose-built appliances with custom ASICs
Easy deployment and lower cost of ownership
The security organization's efficiency is being strained by the increasing complexity of security infrastructure. Firewall policies must be updated regularly, new network resources must be built and provisioned, and the consequences of changes on the entire network must be tested. Worse, the data they need to track is dispersed across multiple silos. Security professionals can accomplish more work with less stress and redundancy if they have a single, consolidated view of the security architecture, which lowers operational costs.
The use of a Next Generation Threat Prevention technique to consolidate and integrate various security equipment leads to increased efficiency and cheaper costs. According to a 2015 study conducted by Lippis Consulting, Check Point's Next Generation Threat Prevention costs half to a third of the cost of multi-vendor security solutions.
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