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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. Convergence also is happening in different formats; now security convergence is happening in appliances, virtual machines, cloud-delivered services, and containers. Convergence

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VM-Series Virtual Firewalls Beat Fortinet Fortigate in Miercom Testing

Palo Alto Networks

The lift-and-shift of applications to the cloud has accelerated the adoption of virtual firewalls over the past few years. Virtual firewalls have evolved with higher performance and flexibility for private, public and multi-cloud tenants. So, how does our virtual firewall performance stack up against the competition?

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Research Shows 115% ROI with VM-Series Virtual Firewalls

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewalls pay for themselves, and now you can get all the details about significant 115% return on investment (ROI) over three years with a six-month payback period in a just-released Forrester Consulting study. See Cost Avoidance Measured in Seven Figures.

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Just Released and Ready for Download — Software Firewalls for Dummies

Palo Alto Networks

If you want to protect applications and workloads throughout today’s complex and interrelated environments, you need software firewalls. You can better understand the extensive need and numerous use cases for virtual firewalls, container firewalls and managed cloud firewalls with our essential guide, “ Software Firewalls for Dummies.”

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Research Shows 163% ROI with Palo Alto Networks Software Firewalls

Palo Alto Networks

Forrester Consulting Study Now Available Good news is here for cloud and network security professionals who need proven, cost-effective solutions that substantially reduce downtime and breaches across a range of cloud and virtualized environments. million in benefits over a period of 3 years.

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How to Set up Firewall Rules

Firemon

How to Set up Firewall Rules What Are Firewall Rules? In this guide, we’ll walk through how to create firewall rules, covering everything from different types of rules to the best practices for managing them. What Are Firewall Rules? Allows specific services , like SSH or FTP, while blocking unwanted protocols.

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How to Set up Firewall Rules

Firemon

How to Set up Firewall Rules What Are Firewall Rules? In this guide, we’ll walk through how to create firewall rules, covering everything from different types of rules to the best practices for managing them. What Are Firewall Rules? Allows specific services , like SSH or FTP, while blocking unwanted protocols.