
Yet, it’s important to note that, in turn, cloud deployments also provide a much larger platform for firewalls to deliver more features and higher performance.

Whether as a layer in Defense in Depth, or a network element within NFV, network firewalls have been integrated with other security services and security orchestration.With new deployments in cloud environments, network firewalls are capable of protecting cloud workloads, which is far beyond traditional stateful, traffic inspection.Vendors not only supply hardware appliances, but also offer multiple, virtualized products like VPC virtual FW, FWaaS, and Container FW, etc.Per our understanding of the report, Network Firewalls have evolved in the following directions: As a long-lasting product category, it has gone through several major changes in recent years. In our opinion, Network Firewalls are the first layer of defense in enterprise security solution. It is worth to notice that the work from home trend due to the Covid-19 pandemic makes Secure Enterprise Data Communications one of the most important technologies in IT as of now. Per our understanding, the majority of the other profiles are in the two to five years to adopt category. IPS and Web Application Firewalls are in the Moderate Benefit and less than two years to adopt category.Gartner puts SD-WAN and Secure Enterprise Data Communications in the High Benefit and less than two years to adopt category.The innovation profiles in the Hype Cycle for Network Security have been partitioned into 16 segments on the Priority Matrix for Network Security, 2020: We believe, both product sectors offer secure connectivity for distributed enterprise and mobile users to connect to Headquarters or access public cloud services, which are in high demand in this year, 2020. The Hype Cycleįirewall as a Service (FWaaS) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) are positioned at the peak in the Hype Cycle.

On June 30th, 2020 Gartner published the report, Hype Cycle for Network Security, 2020.* In this article, Gartner talks about that enterprise IT has evolved into hybrid and multicloud infrastructures, as well as summarizes products that can be used to mitigate and prevent threats during this digital transformation.
