NGFW
Definition
Next-generation firewall: stateful packet inspection plus application identification, integrated IPS, TLS inspection and user-identity awareness. Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point and Cisco Firepower are the dominant vendors.
Related terms
- CERT-in Direction April 2022
- Direction issued under Section 70B(6) of the IT Act 2000 requiring 6-hour incident reporting, 180-day log retention in India, KYC retention by...
- IDS vs IPS
- An intrusion detection system observes copied traffic and alerts. An intrusion prevention system sits inline on the data path and blocks. Snort...
- IPSec AH and ESP
- Authentication Header provides integrity and origin authentication only. Encapsulating Security Payload provides confidentiality plus optional integrity. Almost all modern IPSec deployments use...
- Kerberos
- An MIT-designed authentication protocol using a Key Distribution Centre, ticket-granting tickets and service tickets. The backbone of Active Directory authentication. Replay-protected via...
- Stateful Firewall
- A firewall that tracks the state of TCP connections in a connection table and permits return traffic of an established flow without...
Explained in
- Network Security: Firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, PKI and SIEMNext-generation firewall: stateful packet inspection plus application identification, integrated IPS, TLS inspection and user-identity awareness. Palo Alto, Fo...