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Fortinet vs Palo Alto NGFWs 2025: Comparison Guide

eSecurity Planet

Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks are two of the best network security providers, offering excellent next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) with strong, independently verified security. Fortinet excels in usability and administration, while Palo Alto has an edge in advanced features and firewall capabilities. 5 Ease of us: 4.7/5

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RSAC Fireside Chat: How a well-placed ‘NGWAF’ can staunch the flow of web, mobile app attacks

The Last Watchdog

At RSAC 2023, A10 announced the addition of a next-generation web application firewall ( NGWAF ,) powered by Fastly, to its core Thunder ADC service. This upgrade, he told me, is expressly aimed at helping companies optimize secure performance of their hybrid cloud environments.

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Introducing next-generation firewall from Palo Alto Networks to support 5G-enabled IoT, OT and IT use cases

CyberSecurity Insiders

Therefore, security teams need to take a closer look at the best technology to support this innovation. Next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks with AT&T Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) solutions are designed to help protect enterprises while optimizing security performance for these new use cases.

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Do Not Confuse Next Generation Firewall And Web Application Firewall

SiteLock

Let us start with the abbreviations that define the categories of information security products: WAF stands for Web Application Firewall , NGFW stands for Next Generation Firewall. NGFW (or Next Generation Firewall) is an evolution of traditional firewalls and serves to delimit access between network segments.

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eSecurity Planet’s 2022 Cybersecurity Product Awards

eSecurity Planet

While there are many other products that might prove best for particular organizations and use cases, these are the products that most stood out to us because of their innovation, breadth of features, and strong security performance. Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW): Palo Alto Networks. Winner : Palo Alto Networks.

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Fortinet FortiGate vs. Forcepoint: NGFW Solutions Compared

eSecurity Planet

An NGFW (next-generation firewall) is an advanced threat protection tool that offers all the features of a stateful network firewall along with integrated intrusion prevention, application and user control, advanced malware detection and threat intelligence feed leveraging. Security Performance. Forcepoint NGFW Features.

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APT Attacks & Prevention

eSecurity Planet

The DazzleSpy backdoor software had interesting features to foil detection, including end-to-end encryption to avoid firewall inspection as well as a feature that cut off communication if a TLS-inspection proxy was detected. See the Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions. Stage 1: Prioritize Security Fundamentals.

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