Are you ready to deploy a Next Generation Firewall?
Is Palo Alto the only true NGFW? SonicWall? Juniper SRX? Do you think that Gartner's definition of a NGFW is correct? Does anyone know of a matrix that maps out which vendors products truly meet the guidelines and which ones are just bolt on "catch up" attempts to create a NGFW?
Is the technology still in its infancy or is it mature enough to be deployed in major enterprises?
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The definition of what is "next gen" varies widely, and can mean "any firewall that does something more intelligent than allow/block particular ports." McAfee, Juniper, Checkpoint and others all have something that fits this -- for example, can you block Facebook games but still allow people to access their Facebook wall and message traffic without having to write (and test) a lot of custom rules?
You can take a look at a short video that I did here:
McAfee Firewall Profiler v2 offers new analysis features
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Hi Lemarchand,
You might want to give this article from Network World a read:
Next-generation firewalls: In depth
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/101711-next-generation-firewalls-i...
It will give you a good overview of what the issues are and what to look for.