Gartner Report Next Generation Firewall

Next generation firewalls ngfws are deep packet inspection firewalls that move beyond port protocol inspection and blocking to add application level inspection intrusion prevention and bringing intelligence from outside the firewall.

Gartner report next generation firewall. Gartner magic quadrant for enterprise network firewalls summary next generation capability has been achieved by the products in the network firewall market and vendors differentiate on feature strengths. Fortinet is undoubtedly synonymous with success stability solidity and quality. Since we implemented the fortigate solutions in the company with an ngfw scenario i e. Gartner magic quadrant for network firewalls rajpreet kaur adam hils jeremy d hoinne john watts 17 september 2019 gartner does not endorse any vendor product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advice technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation.

An ngfw should not be confused with a stand alone network intrusion prevention system ips which includes a commodity or nonenterprise firewall or a. It is an old but still modern and competitive solution and check point is always on the edge of security technologies. The enterprise network firewall market is still composed primarily of purpose built appliances for securing enterprise corporate networks although virtual appliances across public and private cloud and heavily virtualized data centers are becoming more important.