1 Rethink Your Firewalls to Meet the Needs of Digital Transformation The Future of Firewalls Is Software THE NEED FOR SPEED2 This report invites you to rethink the use of legacy firewalls, to reevaluate your security posture, and to consider micro-segmentation as an addition or alternative to legacy firewalls in your organization. What do we mean by legacy firewalls? For the purposes of this research, we define legacy firewalls as a network of next-generation firewalls (NGFW) appliances, including virtual firewall appliances. Legacy firewalls encompass both stateful and NGFW. Stateful firewalls provide inspection of incoming and outgoing network traffic, while next-generation firewalls often include additional features such as threat intelligence, intrusion prevention (IP

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