SE at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
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Jul 21, 2020
Netscope, Zscaler if they continue route they are on now. FIrewalls needs great deal of automation on each end, datacenter and endpoint. In between you have branch office. So blending EPP and firewall on enduser machine + blending branch office with datacenter firewall will take place.
Sophos is doing something on SMB side which may simplify operations. However, they are yet to put big box in to data center and I believe they are due next year. Fortinet has lost itself in so many products. CP, PA missing some key products in unified portfolio.
So, Sophos, Netscope or Zscaler if they blend with some traditional vendor and integrate.
Community Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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Jul 22, 2020
@Nehad Elkordi Cisco and Fortinet are currently top players - are there other products that are less known that you think are going to compete with Cisco and Fortinet?
@Paul Yuen What do you base your comment on? Have you seen their Purple product or even their solution for Managed Service Providers?They are quickly becoming a leader in the firewall and IDS/IPS markets.Check Point, Sophos, SonicWall and Fortinet don't offer all the features that Firewalla does all-in-one. All the other solution you mention are also at much higher price points and also all other require recurring payments.
I can think of 2 Firewalls that should be doing much better then they are, Kerio Control and ZyXEL ZyWall. Both have been around for a long time but have never gained the market share I feel they should have and I often find people have never heard of them.
I doubt we will see a new firewall vendor, but I believe we will see new architectures that leverage the advanced capabilities of NGFW delivery through ISPs, think of it is a clean pipe for Internet access. The ISPs will use firewalls (virtualized and segmented by customers) to do the filtering before it hits your networks, just like we see with spam filtering.
I also believe we will see more edge networking, 5G networking where the firewall function will be built into the network at the edge. We already are seeing early versions of the with things like Curiosity OS by Sprint working with Ericsson. I think they will easily add existing VM firewalls to their platform and not reinvent the wheel.
CISO and Head of CyberSecurity at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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Jul 21, 2020
Those firewalls that allow extend the perimeter. Nowadays, there is a issue with the static perimeter and all is going to change in the next semesters. In my opinion, solutions like Netskope are offering this extended perimeter functionality and they could lead the market.
Well with the SD-WAN raising it is common to see cloud firewall implementations, like ZScaler.
but as data center firewall, I don’t see any new player comes out unless it will come with a new surprising feature as the market have so many good vendors.
CIsco is losing terrain with Huawei, SonicWall loose Dell Support, Palo Alto is too expensive, Check Point is under the same conditions, PFSense now is Netgate, Sophos is rising prices.
I think SonicWall has been doing a great work with two technologies, Capture ATP with recently won the ICSA Labs in detecting 100% threats during the evaluation.
Their new Client capture is an AV. They don't use firm update technology but AI with a restore point for a Windows server and PC.
I would recommend FireWalla Gold, a rising star that has all the attributes of becoming the best firewall with features that match and even exceed the well-known ones like Sophos, SonicWall and even Fortinet.
It is very affordable, as you only need to pay once as compared to the annual payments for the ones like Sophos and SonicWall. See https://www.techradar.com/revi...
Geeesz Louise... You CANNOT answer a Magic Quadrant leader...
Something like Untangle without a doubt... I have removed useless EXPENSIVE Fortis and Sophis because they were badly configured by the previous installer.
Drop Untangle in on an i5 8GB multi NIC PC... 1000 users later no more breaches and issues.... easy peasy.
Prophaze WAF, having a disruptive technology that eliminates false positive and false negatives. Visioned for the future as it's built on the Kubernetes platform. The key thing about the product is, it can do auto profiling and can learn typical user behaviour as part of its ML algorithm .
Senior IT Consultant - Sophos Architect at ARENTIA S.A.
Real User
Aug 3, 2021
Hi,
In my opinion, Sophos firewall XGS will gain power in the market, not for its internal's functions and services, but with the "Sophos Synchronized Security", interconnecting firewalls, endpoints, mobiles, etc., centralized in a cloud console.
This system can interact with all the security elements, to enhance the security response to cyber attacks. Also, with analyzing tools like XDR, EDR, rapid response services, etc.
Everyone wants to bring clients to their Hosted (cloud site) and control likely clients mini-clouds. My humble opinion will be these that can allow the client host their device.
Firewall Security Management is essential for protecting networks by monitoring and controlling incoming and outgoing traffic based on predetermined security rules. It effectively defends against cyber threats and vulnerabilities.Firewall Security Management solutions offer a comprehensive approach to safeguard organizational IT infrastructure. They not only ensure compliance with security policies but also provide centralized control to manage diverse security appliances. By integrating...
Netscope, Zscaler if they continue route they are on now. FIrewalls needs great deal of automation on each end, datacenter and endpoint. In between you have branch office. So blending EPP and firewall on enduser machine + blending branch office with datacenter firewall will take place.
Sophos is doing something on SMB side which may simplify operations. However, they are yet to put big box in to data center and I believe they are due next year. Fortinet has lost itself in so many products. CP, PA missing some key products in unified portfolio.
So, Sophos, Netscope or Zscaler if they blend with some traditional vendor and integrate.
Would you mind elaborating on why you think Netscope and Zscaler are on the way up? What are they doing that sets them apart from other vendors?
Cisco Portfolio is focusing on total security inside and outside including cloud security,two factor authentication & SDWAN.
Forti Portfolio is focusing on total security too inside and outside including cloud security & two factor authentication.
both are working with Sandbox which is important for 0 day attack.
Therefore If R&D for both vendors will keep as they are today i think they'll be market leaders and away by far for the next 5 years
@Nehad Elkordi Cisco and Fortinet are currently top players - are there other products that are less known that you think are going to compete with Cisco and Fortinet?
In 3 years' time, we believe that "Firewalls Gold" will reach its heights.
This is because the current firewall's features and affordability had already surpassed those of Check Point, Sophos, SonicWall and Fortinet.
Firewalls will dominate the market in future years given their immense innovation capability.
@Paul Yuen What do you base your comment on? Have you seen their Purple product or even their solution for Managed Service Providers?They are quickly becoming a leader in the firewall and IDS/IPS markets.Check Point, Sophos, SonicWall and Fortinet don't offer all the features that Firewalla does all-in-one. All the other solution you mention are also at much higher price points and also all other require recurring payments.
1- Pfsense
2- Kerio Control
3- Fortinet
4- Cisco solutions
I can think of 2 Firewalls that should be doing much better then they are, Kerio Control and ZyXEL ZyWall. Both have been around for a long time but have never gained the market share I feel they should have and I often find people have never heard of them.
I doubt we will see a new firewall vendor, but I believe we will see new architectures that leverage the advanced capabilities of NGFW delivery through ISPs, think of it is a clean pipe for Internet access. The ISPs will use firewalls (virtualized and segmented by customers) to do the filtering before it hits your networks, just like we see with spam filtering.
I also believe we will see more edge networking, 5G networking where the firewall function will be built into the network at the edge. We already are seeing early versions of the with things like Curiosity OS by Sprint working with Ericsson. I think they will easily add existing VM firewalls to their platform and not reinvent the wheel.
@Stuart Berman Interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing. Are there examples of companies working together like Ericsson and Sprint?
Those firewalls that allow extend the perimeter. Nowadays, there is a issue with the static perimeter and all is going to change in the next semesters. In my opinion, solutions like Netskope are offering this extended perimeter functionality and they could lead the market.
Well with the SD-WAN raising it is common to see cloud firewall implementations, like ZScaler.
but as data center firewall, I don’t see any new player comes out unless it will come with a new surprising feature as the market have so many good vendors.
In those days we are closer to see companies like Untangle. They are growing really fast and offering nice solutions, a reasonable price, and support.
See the links: https://www.untangle.com/untan... and https://www.untangle.com/compa...
Those guys are evolving into a good alternative!
CIsco is losing terrain with Huawei, SonicWall loose Dell Support, Palo Alto is too expensive, Check Point is under the same conditions, PFSense now is Netgate, Sophos is rising prices.
Thank God for new alternatives.
I think SonicWall has been doing a great work with two technologies, Capture ATP with recently won the ICSA Labs in detecting 100% threats during the evaluation.
Their new Client capture is an AV. They don't use firm update technology but AI with a restore point for a Windows server and PC.
I would recommend FireWalla Gold, a rising star that has all the attributes of becoming the best firewall with features that match and even exceed the well-known ones like Sophos, SonicWall and even Fortinet.
It is very affordable, as you only need to pay once as compared to the annual payments for the ones like Sophos and SonicWall. See https://www.techradar.com/revi...
Geeesz Louise... You CANNOT answer a Magic Quadrant leader...
Something like Untangle without a doubt... I have removed useless EXPENSIVE Fortis and Sophis because they were badly configured by the previous installer.
Drop Untangle in on an i5 8GB multi NIC PC... 1000 users later no more breaches and issues.... easy peasy.
Prophaze WAF, having a disruptive technology that eliminates false positive and false negatives. Visioned for the future as it's built on the Kubernetes platform. The key thing about the product is, it can do auto profiling and can learn typical user behaviour as part of its ML algorithm .
Look into Cisco security portfolio . Cisco have great overall Management skills to handled the big security scoop. Fortinet and PaloAlto is great to.
Meraki / Fortinet / SonicWall
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter - Firewall: low cost and great performance.
Prophaze WAF - the first SDWAF that includes the following:
1) Entire stack is behavioral-based
2) Built on Kubernetes not as a sidecar, but as an ingress controller
3) Cloud WAF supports all public/private/multi/hybrid/service mesh architecture
4) Integrates with more than a dozen threat intelligence sources
5) Supports all SIEM solutions
6) Layer 7 DDoS mitigation and Volumetric Mitigation
Hi,
In my opinion, Sophos firewall XGS will gain power in the market, not for its internal's functions and services, but with the "Sophos Synchronized Security", interconnecting firewalls, endpoints, mobiles, etc., centralized in a cloud console.
This system can interact with all the security elements, to enhance the security response to cyber attacks. Also, with analyzing tools like XDR, EDR, rapid response services, etc.
Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Cisco Systems, Fortinet, Juniper
They are Gartner Certified , Price point and customer satisfaction.
We position Hillstone.
@Hasan Zuberi ( HZ ), can you please provide any reasons why? Thanks
It,s totally depends on your security requirements.
Checkpoint
@Mukesh_Sharma can you elaborate on how you think Checkpoint is competing against market leaders for firewall products?
Everyone wants to bring clients to their Hosted (cloud site) and control likely clients mini-clouds. My humble opinion will be these that can allow the client host their device.
City Networks vs Rural areas still many issues
AI based firewall