Next Generation Firewalls
Next Generation Firewalls
What is it?
Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) are advanced cybersecurity solutions designed to provide more comprehensive and intelligent protection for modern network environments. Unlike traditional firewalls that primarily focus on state, port, and protocol traffic filtering, NGFWs also incorporate advanced features like deep packet inspection, intrusion detection and prevention, application awareness and control, and user identification. These capabilities allow NGFWs to not only block malicious traffic but also understand and control the specific applications and users accessing the network. By offering a more granular and context-aware approach to security, NGFWs help organisations better defend against a wide range of cyber threats, including advanced malware and application-layer attacks, while also enabling more flexible and efficient network management.
Why now?
- Organisations’ legacy cybersecurity solutions have fallen behind as they transition from the conventional on-prem environment to this new IT reality, resulting in unmanageable complexity and elevated risk.
- In today’s cybersecurity landscape advanced threat protection is crucial to help organisations defend against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, such as zero-day exploits and advanced persistent threats.
- With the proliferation of cloud-based applications and services, NGFWs provide essential visibility and control over the applications running on a network, ensuring that only authorised applications are accessed and used.
- NGFWs enable user identification, allowing organisations to associate network activity with specific users. This helps in monitoring and enforcing security policies on a per-user basis, enhancing overall network security.
- As remote work becomes more prevalent, securing remote access and ensuring that employees can work from anywhere without compromising network security is critical.
- Many industries have strict compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) that demand robust network security measures. NGFWs help organisations meet these regulatory obligations by providing the necessary security controls and reporting capabilities.
Our two to four-week Proof of Value exercise aligned to predefined success criteria provides you with the opportunity to seamlessly deploy the solution within your environment. This tailored approach enables a comprehensive understanding of how the Solution operates within your environment and evidence the outcomes of the success criteria.
Real World Scenarios
Protecting Enterprise Networks
Safeguard internal networks – Inspect incoming and outgoing traffic, block malicious content, and enforce security policies.
Cloud Application Control
Ensure that employees can access cloud-based applications securely while blocking unauthorised access and maintaining data privacy.
Visibility of the Whole Network
Conduct audits, monitor the content and data, pinpoint hosts, and identify users of applications operating within your network.
Single Network Filtering Appliance
Integrates more features than traditional firewalls providing a single solution for multiple problems.
High Performance & Integration
Efficiently incorporate threat intelligence feeds for immediate blocking. Seamless integration with Sandboxing and other advanced malware protection solutions (e.g. CASB).
C-STEM’s SMART Solution
The C-STEM CrowdSMART Solution combines a SMART System with a SMART As a Service to provide organisations with the capability to combat modern network security threats more efficiently, allowing the delivering and maintenance of a secure and controlled user experience in real time.
By applying this solution, the toolkit permits:
- Security, control and visibility to maintain an effective cyber security posture.
- Integrates with Microsoft 365, Azure, Splunk, Sophos and Fortinet.
- Robust ZTNA solution, quickly scaling security beyond your perimeter.
- Purpose-built architecture maps allow the correct solution to be deployed with the right capabilities to meet your specific needs.
- Secure SD-WAN.
- Innovative threat intelligence allows evasive and cutting-edge threats to be detected across all attack surfaces (network, cloud, email, remote/mobile, endpoints, and apps).
- Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI).
- Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection™ (RTDMI)Sandboxing Technology.
- Multi-Instance Firewall.
Systems + Techniques = Effective Management
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