The Future of the Firewall

As networks become more heterogeneous, it becomes increasingly difficult for organizations to achieve consistent policy management and enforcement and maintain unified visibility. The complexity of these interconnected networks often leads to errors or misconfigurations, leaving them vulnerable to ever-evolving, sophisticated threats.

What can an organization do to regain control and achieve consistency? It starts with an integrated approach to security that places the firewall front and center.

Firewalls are still the cornerstone of an organization’s network security strategy, but just as networks have evolved, so too must our firewalls. To succeed in today’s digital world, organizations need to think beyond single firewalls and embrace “firewalling”— a policy-driven method for strategically coordinating advanced security protections across logical control points throughout heterogenous networks.