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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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Enabling Digital Transformation, Securely

CIO Business Intelligence

SASE is SD-WAN-as-a-service and security-as-a-service. Offering more flexibility at low cost, software-defined networking, or SD-WAN, abstracts network control from the connectivity layer and enables real-time monitoring, reporting, and analytics across network nodes. Let’s look at each: Software-defined wide area networking.

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