Firewall has evolved through several stages of development. The third generation of the firewalls is intent-oriented. This new generation of firewall will address increasingly sophisticated, multi-stage attacks, blended attacks, and even outright sabotage. It has become, from a security perspective, it has become the fundamental component around which a CISO needs to build his/her security architecture. The latest incarnation implements the strategic pillars of Segmentation, Access Control, and Real-time analytics/action to realize intent-based.”]
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