What should I look for in a next-generation firewall?

Techniques to address evolving security threats.

Upgrade paths to include future information feeds.

Application awareness and control to see and block risky apps.

Standard firewall capabilities like stateful inspection.

According to Gartner's definition, a next-generation firewall must include: In addition to access control, NGFWs can block modern threats such as advanced malware and application-layer attacks. It allows or blocks traffic based on state, port, and protocol, and filters traffic based on administrator-defined rules.Ī next-generation firewall (NGFW) does this, and so much more.

Versa’s NGFWaaS provides a comprehensive security scope coverage for WAN Edge purposes together with other elements within the VSIA product offering.A traditional firewall provides stateful inspection of network traffic. Market has been adopting NGFW (including UTM) as a Service to address these challenges and to make most use of collective market’s attack and protection information.Īs part of Versa SASE product portfolio, Versa offers cloud delivered Next Generation Firewall as a service as part of its Versa Secure Internet Access (VSIA) product offering. Running comprehensive security takes a lot of time and resources. In today’s world maintaining and up-keeping on-prem NGFW & UTM devices to effectively identify and prevent latest attacks is a technical challenge that requires up to date expertise on complex attack and protection methods.

Securing the data center and branch offices is complicated and backhauling all branch traffic through a centrally deployed firewall in the data center is inefficient, introduces latency, and negatively impacts application performance.

With the rise of cloud-based applications, remote work, and mobile devices, the expanding Enterprise perimeter is becoming more of a point of concern where the growing attack surface can lend itself to a host of external threats.

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