The University will evaluate three vendors. “We will only look at those who clai

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The University will evaluate three vendors. “We will only look at those who claimed to have a next-generation firewall,” says Kat. Hint: Reference the Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls and a minimum of 3 demo sites. Hint: search - online firewall demo Compare and contrast products and make a recommendation for a product(s) to specify along with an estimated cost. You solely are responsible for the product specification and your continued employment is dependent on your selection. Write a no fluff management summary (min 3ish pages) that will convince management to spend the money.

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Answer:

As per Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls has four quadrants namely - Challengers, Leaders, Niche Players and Visionaries. Under these quadrants, following companies are specified:

From this, companies from Leaders and Visionaries quadrants can be considered. These companies are:

Comparison of features of Next Gen Firewall (NGFW) of these companies: See the details below:

Features

Palo Alto Networks

Fortinet

Check Point Software Technologies

Forcepoint

Sophos

Security

Application Visibility & Control (ACC)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

User Visibility & Control

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

IPS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Anti-Malware

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Command & Control

Yes

Yes

-

-

-

Passive DNS

Yes

-

Yes

-

-

Data Filtering

Yes

-

Yes

-

-

Policy Control

Yes

Yes

-

Yes

Yes

Decryption

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automated Correlation Engine

Yes

-

-

-

-

Exploit Protection

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Network Security & Management

Logging and Reporting

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Enterprise-class Management Functionality

Yes

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

System & Deployment

Virtual Systems

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

-

Redundancy

Yes

-

-

-

-

Integration and Automation

Yes

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

Networking

IPv6

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

-

VPN

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Network Integration

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Recommendation: From this comarison, solution from Palo Alto Networks seems to be more comprehensive, hence can be considered, if feasible, for deployment.

Quadrant Companies Challengers Cisco, Huawi Leaders Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies Niche Players Barracuda Networks, Juniper Networks, Sangfor, WatchGuard, Hillstone, AhnLab, StormShield, Sonicwall Visionaries Forcepoint, Sophos

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