Why does my business need a next-gen firewall?
We’ve previously covered?“What is a Firewall and Why do I Need One?”.?In this blog post, we will take a deeper look to see how a Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) can help protect your business.
NGFW’s contain all the tried and true features of the firewalls before them but they also contain advanced functionalities.?Features like application awareness, intrusion prevention and detection, content filtering, and gateway antivirus are just some of the features of a NGFW.
Advanced Blocking
NGFW’s permit system administrators or business owners to prevent individual applications from traversing the network. A common technique to get around content filtering is to use a VPN proxy service. This hides all the data from the firewall. A firewall with application awareness can block these services.?If you want to prevent your users from consuming all your company’s bandwidth you can simply filter out various streaming applications, however if you can’t prevent them from using a VPN to get around your firewall, it won’t do much good. A NGFW can do that for you.?
Intrusion Prevention
Intrusion prevention?capable firewalls can detect intrusions and automatically apply a set of rules to the network traffic when one is detected. This is important as exploits can be carried about very quickly and the capability to respond immediately is something standard firewalls just....