Meet The Next Next-Gen Firewall

By Kelly Jackson Higgins  Posted on 9/16/2014
 
Or at least the latest iteration of one of the oldest-running security tools that continues to evolve and transform with the times.
 This is not your father's firewall: In fact, most security experts say it shouldn't even be called a firewall anymore, this newest variety of the staple perimeter traffic-control box.
The modern firewall, aka the next-generation firewall, application-layer firewall, or deep-packet inspection firewall, indeed has been evolving dramatically for years. And today, Cisco Systems, which of late arguably had been losing ground in the next-gen firewall realm, today made a big plunge into that space by adding Sourcefire's application control, IPS, and advanced threat detection to its ASA 5500 firewall.
In yet another example of the firewall's changing and expanding role, cloud application control provider Skyhigh Networks announced today that it has teamed up with next-gen firewall vendor Palo Alto Networks to blend Skyhigh's cloud-based application control service with PAN's platform, which basically adds a cloud-based application firewall to the governance and control policy management of SaaS-based applications.
 
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