Description

Enterprises are constantly trying to address growing workforce mobility and are bringing in new service experiences to improve business process performance. This warrants businesses to transform the way they are using enterprise applications and data transported over the network. Though this brings several functional benefits to users, it often leads to threats to information security for enterprises. This edition of Network Security TOE provides a snapshot on the next generation firewall solutions for mitigating these threats and security breaches in organizations. It highlights a set of innovative firewall solutions that are available today and their key capabilities in mitigating such attacks. The study highlights eight innovative firewall solutions to enable future-ready security across enterprises.

Network Security TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE)’s mission is to investigate new and emerging developments that aim to protect the network infrastructure and the resources operating in the network. NST offers strategic insights that would help identify new business opportunities and enhance technology portfolio decisions by assessing new developments and product launches in: anti-spam, anti-virus, phishing, identity management, disaster recovery, firewalls, virtual private networks, end-point security, content filtering, Web application security, authentication and access control, intrusion prevention and detection systems, encryption algorithms, cryptographic techniques, and pattern recognition systems for network security. Highlights of this service include technology roadmapping of network security technologies; IP portfolio analysis; information on funding and investment opportunities; evaluation of commercial opportunities from technology developments; technology assessment; analysis of technology accelerators and challenges and many more.

TechVision Information & Communication Technology cluster provides global industry analysis, technology competitive analysis, and insights into game-changing technologies in the wireless communication and computing space. Innovations in ICT have deeply permeated various applications and markets. These innovations have profound impact on a range of business functions for computing, communications, business intelligence, data processing, information security, workflow automation, quality of service (QoS) measurements, simulations, customer relationship management, knowledge management functions and many more. Our global teams of industry experts continuously monitor technology areas such as big data, cloud computing, communication services, mobile & wireless communication space, IT applications & services, network security, and unified communications markets. In addition, we also closely look at vertical markets and connected industries to provide a holistic view of the ICT Industry.

Keywords: Next-generation firewall (NGFW), network firewall, hardware firewall, software firewall, packet filter, proxy firewall, unified threat management (UTM), messaging firewall, DNS firewall