Next Generation Firewalls
Today’s firewalls don’t do much better at protecting networks than locked doors do at protecting against car thieves. The problem is that you’re not going to be attacked on the ports your traditional firewall block. The ports you have exposed right now, https, http, ssh, smtp, these are enough for today’s sophisticated hackers to break through. In addition, your networks are saturated with threats from malware, viruses and external applications that you have no control over. Unfortunately, traditional “port blocking” firewalls can only classify traffic based only on ports and protocols – not on applications. As a result, they are a completely ineffective security solution to manage the risks and rewards of today’s Internet applications across the enterprise.
Today’s next generation firewalls are application aware. We can tell you where files are moving on your network, who opened them and if they tried to sneak them out of the company. We can allow users to go to Facebook but not to use Facebook email. Next Gen Firewalls get granular with applications, allowing us to selectively deal with them and track users as they use them across the company. If you have a compliacen problem or a major data breach and Next Gen Firewall can help like no other modern day security appliance.
At Bulldog Data we focus on Palo Alto Networks solutions. Palo Alto has re-invented the enterprise network firewall, bringing a broad set of power innovations to a market that has largely been ignored by other vendors for the past 15 years. Their family of award winning firewalls provides unprecedented visibility and control of applications and content – by user, not just IP address – at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation. It’s not surprising that hundreds of enterprise IT organizations around the world have already replaced their old port-blocking firewalls with next generation firewallsfrom Palo Alto Networks.
