Evolution of Firewalls: Toward Securer Network Using Next Generation Firewall
Evolution of Firewalls: Toward Securer Network Using Next Generation Firewall
Firewalls: Toward
Securer Network
Using Next
Generation Firewall
Junyan Liang , Yoohwan Kim
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 02
Introduction IN-DEPTH
Firewall Evolution Review Firewall Types and
and Need for NGFW Applications
03 04 05
IN BRIEF Contribution Conclusion
Next-Generation Firewall The Most Recent NGFW Summary of Firewall
and Key Features Applications Differences
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01
Introduction
Firewall Evolution Review
and Need for NGFW
2
Firewall Evolution
Next-Generation
Application Layer Firewall (NGFW) was
Firewall coined by Gartner
Stateful Firewall
1997 2009
1990
2004
1988 1991 2020
3
02
IN DEPTH
Firewall Types and Applications
4
Traditional Firewall
Circuit-Gateway Firewall
+ Legitimate TCP connections between
the client and the server
- Does not provide any packet-level
defense
6
Traditional Firewall
Web-Application Firewall Unified Threat Management
+ Protects back-end web application server + Provides all defense mechanisms from
- Does not confront unknown vulnerabilities previous firewalls
- Single point of failure
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03
IN BRIEF
Next-Generation Firewall
and Key Features
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Primary Objective of
Next-Generation Firewall
9
What Is and Is not NGFW
What is
01
NGFW can identify and control traffic at the
application layers by looking deep into the
application layer
What is not
02
NGFW targets an enterprise-level environment
and offers high performance
10
NGFW Key Features
03 04
Application Multiple
01 Awareness Performance 06
User Simple
Identification Configuration
02
Content 05
Inspection and All Layer
heuristic analysis Protection
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Vendors
Juniper
Palo Alto Network
Network
Cisco
F5 BIG-IP
Firepower™ Sophos
Next-Generation Network
Product
Firewall
Fortinet
Firewall Huawei
Network
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04
Contribution
Next-Generation
Firewall Applications
13
NGFW Applications
15
Comparison of Firewalls
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THANKS!
Do you have any questions?
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Reference
[1] J. Liang and Y. Kim, “Evolution of Firewalls: Toward Securer Network Using
Next Generation Firewall.” 2022 IEEE 12th Annual Computing and
Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), 2022, doi:
10.1109/ccwc54503.2022.9720435
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