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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

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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Web Application Firewalls Aren’t Protecting Cloud-Native Apps

DevOps.com

Your web application firewall (WAF) is humming at the edges of your network, faithfully blocking malicious attacks before they can do any harm. It consists of signatures, rules, and a sprinkle of machine learning to protect your applications (and user data) from harm. Better yet, it’s a next-generation WAF (NG-WAF).

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Robust Intelligence raises $30M Series B to stress test AI models

TechCrunch

To do so, the company offers its users what it calls the Robust Intelligence Model Engine (RIME), with what is essentially an AI firewall at its core. This firewall wraps around a company’s AI models and protects it from making mistakes by constantly stress testing these models. Image Credits: Robust Intelligence.

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A Leader in 2024 Forrester Enterprise Firewall Solutions Wave

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks pioneered the Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) and continues to adapt in the evolving network security space. " — The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewall Solutions, Q4 2024 Today we’re excited to share that Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewall Solutions, Q4 2024 report.

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These Services Shall Not Pass: Abusing Service Tags to Bypass Azure Firewall Rules (Customer Action Required)

Tenable

Azure customers whose firewall rules rely on Azure Service Tags, pay attention: You could be at risk due to a vulnerability detected by Tenable Research. Tenable Research has discovered a vulnerability in Azure that allows an attacker to bypass firewall rules based on Azure Service Tags by forging requests from trusted services.

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Palo Alto Networks a Leader in Forrester Enterprise Firewalls Report

Palo Alto Networks

We created the first Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) more than a decade ago and have continued to keep our customers ahead of fast-evolving threats in the years since then. More recently, we disrupted the market again with our announcement of the world’s first Machine Learning-Powered NGFW.

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A Leader in 2024 Forrester Enterprise Firewall Solutions Wave

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks pioneered the Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) and continues to adapt in the evolving network security space. " — The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewall Solutions, Q4 2024 Today we’re excited to share that Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewall Solutions, Q4 2024 report.