Alternatives to VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall

Compare VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall in 2026. Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business.

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    ThreatLocker

    ThreatLocker

    ThreatLocker

    ThreatLocker is a Zero Trust Platform that prevents cyber threats by blocking unknown applications, enforcing least privilege, and controlling what can run across your environment. Using Allowlisting, Ringfencing, Network Control, and more, ThreatLocker stops ransomware, zero-day attacks, and unauthorized activity before execution, rather than relying on detection after the fact. Built for modern IT and cybersecurity teams, the platform delivers centralized visibility and policy management across endpoints, users, and applications. ThreatLocker reduces attack surface, limits lateral movement, and supports compliance with detailed audit logs. With fast deployment, a large built-in application library, and streamlined approvals, organizations can strengthen security while minimizing operational overhead and maintaining business continuity.
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    enforza

    enforza

    enforza

    The cost-effective alternative to AWS Network Firewall, Azure Firewall, and cloud-native NAT Gateways. Same features. Less cost. No data processing charges. enforza is a cloud-managed firewall platform that helps you build a unified multi-cloud perimeter with powerful firewall, egress filtering and NAT Gateway capabilities. With easy cloud management at its core, enforza is truly multi-cloud, enabling you to apply consistent security policies across multiple clouds and regions. - Install the agent on *your* linux instance (cloud or on-prem) with one command. - Claim your device on the portal. - Manage your policies.
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    12Port Horizon
    Our agentless platform allows you to quickly segment network workloads and restrict unauthorized traffic to prevent lateral movement and stop breaches. Protecting IT assets across physical, virtual, and cloud environments is increasingly complex. Traditional security can't counter sophisticated threats. Microsegmentation isolates workloads, monitors east-west traffic, and prevents lateral movement, ensuring attackers can't spread to critical areas and enhancing overall network security. Build and enforce security policies based on asset classification using hierarchical taxonomies and tagging. Enforce strict access controls and routinely monitor service traffic, aligning with zero trust principles to provide a comprehensive and flexible security strategy. 12Port Horizon features an agentless architecture, simplifying deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments without adding complexity.
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    Google Cloud Firewalls
    Google Cloud firewalls are fully embedded in the cloud networking fabric, highly scalable, and granular to meet your enterprise’s unique security needs. Flexible and customizable: Benefit from protection at the organization, folder, and project level with flexible control over firewall rules and policies. Visibility and optimization: Gain insights into firewall rule usage and optimization opportunities to help you keep your deployment safe and easy to manage. Granular controls: Leverage network tags and service accounts to define granular control for both north-south and east-west traffic.
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    Cisco Multicloud Defense
    Simplify security and gain multidirectional protection across any public or private cloud to block inbound attacks, lateral movement, and data exfiltration using a single solution. Manage security across public and private clouds from one place. Create, enforce, and update policies across all your clouds in real-time. Ingress, egress, and east-west protection stop inbound threats, block command and control, and data exfiltration, and prevent lateral movement. Proactively close security gaps within your cloud environment using real-time asset discovery. Automate underlying cloud network constructs and integrate with infrastructure as code for greater agility, flexibility, and scale. Cisco Multicloud Defense secures your cloud data and workloads from all angles. Organizations are adopting multi-cloud environments for greater agility, flexibility, and scale.
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    Check Point CloudGuard

    Check Point CloudGuard

    Check Point Software

    The Check Point CloudGuard platform provides you cloud native security, with advanced threat prevention for all your assets and workloads – in your public, private, hybrid or multi-cloud environment – providing you unified security to automate security everywhere. Prevention First Email Security: Stop zero-day attacks. Remain ahead of attackers with unparalleled global threat intel. Leverage the power of layered email security. Native Solution, at the Speed of Your Business: Fast, straightforward deployment of invisible inline API based prevention. Unified Solution for Cloud Email & Office Suites: Granular insights and clear reporting with a single dashboard and license fee across mailboxes and enterprise apps. Check Point CloudGuard provides cloud native security for all your assets and workloads, across multi-clouds, allowing you to automate security everywhere, with unified threat prevention and posture management.
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    Avocado

    Avocado

    Avocado

    Eliminate lateral movement and data exfiltration with Avocado's agentless, app-native security and visibility. App-native, agentless security powered by runtime policies & pico-segmentation. Designed for simplicity and security at scale. Contain threats at the smallest definable threat surface by creating microscopic perimeters around application subprocesses. Inject runtime controls natively into application subprocesses, enabling self-learning threat detection and automated remediation, no matter the language or architecture. Automatically protect your data against east-west attacks with no manual intervention and near-zero false positives. An agent-based signature, memory, and behavioral detection solutions are not capable of dealing with vast attacks surfaces and laterally moving persistent threats. Without a foundational change in attack detection, zero-day and misconfiguration-related attacks will continue unabated.
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    ColorTokens Xtended ZeroTrust Platform
    The cloud-delivered ColorTokens Xtended ZeroTrust Platform protects from the inside out with unified visibility, micro-segmentation, zero-trust network access, cloud workload and endpoint protection. Visibility across on-premise & multiclouds. Micro-segment for cloud workload protection. Stop ransomware from owning your endpoints. See all communication between processes, files, users, applications, and workloads. Identify security gaps with built-in threat and vulnerability assessment. Simple and faster time-to-compliance (for HIPAA, PCI, GDPR). Easily create ZeroTrust Zones™ and drastically reduce the attack surface. Dynamic policies that protect workloads migrating to the cloud. Block lateral threats without cumbersome VLANs/ACLs or firewall rules. Lockdown any endpoint by automatically allowing only whitelisted processes. Block zero day or fileless exploits, and stop communication to C&C servers.
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    Trellix Intrusion Prevention System
    Stop new and unknown attacks with signature-based and signature-less intrusion prevention systems. Signature-less intrusion detection finds malicious network traffic and stops attacks where no signatures exist. Support network virtualization across private and public cloud platforms to scale security and evolve with changing IT dynamics. Scale hardware performance to speeds up to 100 Gbps and leverage data from multiple products. Find stealthy botnets, worms, and reconnaissance attacks hiding across the network landscape. Collect flow data from switches and routers and integrate with Network Threat Behavior Analysis to correlate unusual network behavior. Discover and block advanced threats on-premises, in virtual environments, software-defined data centers, and private and public clouds. Gain east-west network visibility and threat protection across virtualized infrastructure and data centers.
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    COSGrid NetShield

    COSGrid NetShield

    COSGrid Networks

    COSGrid NetShield is a big data & ML based Network Detect and Response (NDR) solution that provides real-time and historical visibility, baselining, correlation, anomaly & threat detection and threat mitigation. Advantages: - Real time Traffic Analysis: Continuously analyzes raw network traffic and flow records to generate baseline of normal network behavior. - Threat Detection: Applying ML & other analytical techniques (non-signature) to detect suspicious traffic. - Automated Response: Analyses east/west traffic to detect lateral movements and performs automated response.
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    Tigera

    Tigera

    Tigera

    Kubernetes-native security and observability. Security and observability as code for cloud-native applications. Cloud-native security as code for hosts, VMs, containers, Kubernetes components, workloads, and services to secure north-south and east-west traffic, enable enterprise security controls, and ensure continuous compliance. Kubernetes-native observability as code to collect real-time telemetry, enriched with Kubernetes context, for a live topographical view of interactions between components from hosts to services. Rapid troubleshooting with machine-learning powered anomaly and performance hotspot detection. Single framework to centrally secure, observe, and troubleshoot multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud environments running Linux or Window containers. Update and deploy policies in seconds to enforce security and compliance or resolve issues.
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    Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    Get comprehensive protection for on-premises and multi-cloud deployment using the firewall built in and for the cloud. Frictionless, cloud-hosted Advanced Threat Protection detects and blocks advanced threats, including zero-day and ransomware attacks. Gain rapid protection against the newest threats with the help of a global threat intelligence network fed by millions of data collection points. Modern cyber threats such as ransomware and advanced persistent threats, targeted attacks, and zero-day threats, require progressively sophisticated defense techniques that balance accurate threat detection with fast response times. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall offers a comprehensive set of next-generation firewall technologies to ensure real-time network protection against a broad range of network threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits, including SQL injections, cross-site scripting, denial of service attacks, trojans, viruses, worms, spyware, and many more.
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    Zero Networks Access Orchestrator
    Achieve least privilege networking automatically and in a scalable way for every user and machine without agents. Zero Networks automatically and continuously observes network access to identify the network permissions necessary for day-to-day activity. Zero Networks actively restricts access to only common non- risky access to get a unique balance of maximum security without impacting usability and performance. Abnormal or risky activity undergoes MFA verification to focus protection on privileged accounts and administrative protocols that attackers prefer. With an airtight, properly segmented network, dramatically reduce the likelihood of ransomware spreading through your network. Enforce only required network access between workloads, and between environments. Microsegmenting all workload communication across East-West as well as Identity-based segmentation for user access for North-South.
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    LinkShadow

    LinkShadow

    LinkShadow

    LinkShadow Network Detection and Response (NDR) ingests network traffic and uses machine learning to detect malicious activity and to understand security risks and exposure. It combines detection for known attack behavior with the ability to recognize what is typical for any given organization, flagging unusual network activity or session that can indicate an attack. Once a malicious activity is detected, LinkShadow NDR responds using third-party integration like firewall, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Network Access Control (NAC) etc. NDR solutions analyze network traffic to detect malicious activity inside the perimeter—otherwise known as the east-west corridor—and support intelligent threat detection, investigation, and response. Using an out-of-band network mirror port, NDR solutions passively capture network communications and apply advanced techniques, including behavioral analytics and machine learning, to identify known and unknown attack patterns.
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    RidgeShield

    RidgeShield

    Ridge Security

    RidgeShield cloud workload protection, is your first line of defense, providing zero-trust micro-segmentation technology to protect cloud workloads, regardless of whether they are deployed on-premises, in hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud environments. With RidgeShield, organizations can ensure the security posture of their network against sophisticated security threats. As an innovative host based micro-segmentation platform, RidgeShield supports a wide range of operating systems and workloads, continuously monitoring traffic across workloads and enforcing unified security policies across any environment.
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    NextRay NDR

    NextRay NDR

    NextRay AI

    NextRay NDR is a Network Detection & Response (NDR) solution that automates incident response, provides comprehensive visibility across North/South & East/West traffic, easily integrated with legacy platforms and other security solutions, offers detailed investigations of your network vulnerabilities, in addition to its advanced threat hunting, swift deployment, real-time correlation across all ports and protocols, and advanced file extraction and analysis. With NextRay NDR, SOC teams can detect and respond to cyberattacks across all network environments with ease.
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    VMware vDefend ATP
    Get complete network traffic inspection with the industry’s highest fidelity insights into advanced threats with VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention (formerly known as NSX Advanced Threat Prevention). Detect known threats and new, evolving threats that have never been seen before. Identify malware specifically designed to evade standard security tools. Get complete visibility into both north-south and east-west traffic, including a comprehensive overview of abnormal behavior across the network. Combine multiple related alerts, across many different assets and hops, into a single intrusion, enabling your security team to quickly understand the scope of the threat and prioritize its response. Eliminate blind spots and inspect all network traffic to detect and prevent known threats from gaining access to critical systems and data. Accelerate threat remediation by baselining network behavior using ML algorithms.
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    Skylight Interceptor NDR
    The right response for when your network is being targeted. The Skylight Interceptor™ network detection & response solution can help you to shutdown impending threats, unify security & performance, and significantly reduce MTTR. You need to see the threats your perimeter security is missing. Skylight Interceptor provides deep visibility into your traffic. It does this by capturing and correlating metadata from both north-south and east-west. This helps you protect your entire network from zero-day attacks, whether in the cloud, on-prem, or at remote sites. You need a tool that helps simplify the complexity of keeping your organization secure. Gain comprehensive high-quality network traffic data for threat-hunting. Achieve the ability to search for forensic details in seconds. Receive correlation of events into incidents using AI/ML. Review alerts generated on only legitimate cyber threats. Preserve critical response time and valuable SOC resources.
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    Cisco Secure Firewall
    Intelligent control points everywhere, with unified policy and threat visibility. Today's dynamic applications run everywhere. To help you keep pace, Cisco's NetWORK security vision includes solutions integration. Dynamic policies work for you, coordinating protection at the network firewall and workload levels. Defending networks against increasingly sophisticated threats requires industry-leading intelligence and consistent protections everywhere. Improve your security posture today with Cisco Secure Firewall. As networks become more interconnected, achieving comprehensive threat visibility and consistent policy management is difficult. Simplify security management and gain visibility across distributed and hybrid networks. Cisco Secure Firewall sets the foundation for integrating powerful threat prevention capabilities into your existing network infrastructure, making the network a logical extension of your firewall solution.
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    Check Point Cloud Firewall

    Check Point Cloud Firewall

    Check Point Software

    Check Point Cloud Firewall is a cloud-native network security solution that provides advanced threat prevention and unified security management across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The platform helps organizations secure cloud workloads, applications, and network traffic with enterprise-grade protection against malware, ransomware, zero-day attacks, and other sophisticated cyber threats. Designed to simplify cloud adoption, it enables businesses to extend existing on-premises security policies and controls into cloud environments while maintaining centralized visibility and management. The solution integrates with infrastructure-as-code tools, APIs, and CI/CD workflows to automate security deployment and streamline cloud operations. Unified management capabilities provide consistent policy enforcement, monitoring, reporting, and control across hybrid infrastructures from a single platform.
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    Akamai API Security
    Akamai API Security is a vendor-neutral, platform-agnostic API threat protection solution that works across SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments, giving enterprises full visibility into their API estate regardless of where the APIs are deployed. It provides continuous API discovery and inventory, automated posture assessment of exposed APIs, runtime monitoring of API traffic (both north-south and east-west), behaviour analytics to detect anomalous or abusive API usage, and integrates with development workflows to test and remediate API-specific vulnerabilities earlier in the lifecycle. Key benefits include enabling teams to create a comprehensive inventory of APIs, identify and protect vulnerable endpoints, automate API security testing, and respond to API threats in real time, while integrating with existing gateways, WAFs, and infrastructure without requiring replacement of those tools.
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    Signal Sciences

    Signal Sciences

    Signal Sciences

    The leading hybrid and multi-cloud platform that provides next-gen WAF, API Security, RASP, Advanced Rate Limiting, Bot Protection, and DDoS purpose built to eliminate the challenges of legacy WAF. Legacy WAFs weren’t designed for today’s web apps that are distributed across cloud, on-premise or hybrid environments. Our next-gen web application firewall (NGWAF) and runtime application self protection (RASP) increase security and maintain reliability without sacrificing velocity, all at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).
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    Cisco Secure Workload
    Achieve the security required for today's heterogeneous multicloud environment with Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration). Protect workloads across any cloud, application, and workload--anywhere. Automate and implement a secure zero-trust model for micro-segmentation based on application behavior and telemetry. Proactively detect and remediate indicators of compromise to minimize the impact to your business. Automate micro-segmentation through customized recommendations based on your environment and applications. Granular visibility and control over application components with automatic detection and enforcement of compliance. Track the security posture of applications across your entire environment. Make informed decisions using automatic NIST vulnerabilities data feed.
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    ARIA SDS Packet Intelligence

    ARIA SDS Packet Intelligence

    ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions

    The ARIA Packet Intelligence (PI) application gives OEMs, service providers, and security professionals a better way to use SmartNIC technology to support two important use cases: advanced packet-level network analytics and cyber-threat detection, response, and containment. Network analytics: ARIA PI provides complete visibility into all network traffic and feeds valuable analytics data to packet delivery accounting tools, quality of service systems, and SLA monitoring applications. All of this helps companies provide better service and maximize revenues tied to usage-based billing. Cyber-threat detection, response, and containment: ARIA PI also feeds metadata to threat detection tools for complete visibility into all network traffic, including east-west data flows. This improves the effectiveness of existing security solutions, such as SIEMs and IDS/IPS tools, and gives security teams a better way to detect, respond, contain, and remediate even the most advanced cyber threats.
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    Forcepoint NGFW
    The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has multiple layers of defenses that protect your network, your endpoints, and your users against modern, advanced threats. Ability to manage large quantities of firewalls and fleets of firewalls at scale without compromising performance. Ease of management, the granularity of controls, and scalability of management capabilities. Assessed block rate, IP Packet Fragmentation/TCP Segmentation, false-positive testing, stability, and reliability. Assessed ability to protect against evasions, HTTP evasions, and a combination of evasion techniques. Designed like software, rather than hardware, NGFW gives you the flexibility to deploy on hardware, virtually or in the cloud. Open API's let you customize automation and orchestrations to your own specifications. Our products routinely undergo rigorous certification testing to meet the most stringent needs of sensitive and critical industries, agencies, organizations and governments around the world.
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    Illumio

    Illumio

    Illumio

    Stop ransomware. Isolate cyberattacks. Segment across any cloud, data center, or endpoint in minutes. Accelerate your Zero Trust journey and protect your organization with automated security enforcement, intelligent visibility, and unprecedented scale. Illumio Core stops attacks and ransomware from spreading with intelligent visibility and micro-segmentation. Get a map of workload communications, quickly build policy, and automate enforcement with micro-segmentation that is easy to deploy across any application, cloud, container, data center, and endpoint. Illumio Edge extends Zero Trust to the edge to contain malware and ransomware to a single laptop instead of thousands. Turn laptops into Zero Trust endpoints, contain an infection to a single machine, and give endpoint security tools like EDR more time to detect and responds to threats.
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    Quantum Firewall Software R82
    New AI innovations prevent millions of new zero-day attacks, accelerate security for DevOps, and increase data center operational simplicity and scale. Quantum Firewall Software R82 provides uncompromising security and operational simplicity for Quantum on-premises and CloudGuard Network firewalls. AI-powered, adaptive threat prevention for novel and encrypted threats. Dynamic tools to accommodate rapidly changing environments. Automatically keep up with business growth & unpredictable traffic spikes. NIST-certified encryption to protect against quantum computing hacking​. Find hidden relationships and traffic patterns to prevent novel malicious campaigns and brand impersonation. Increases the effectiveness of website categorization to make the most of your security policies. R82 delivers powerful new protection from the most evasive phishing, malware, and DNS attacks, even in encrypted traffic.
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    Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
    Centralize and simplify your firewall admin and intrusion prevention. With visibility across ever-changing and global networks, you can manage modern applications and malware outbreaks in real-time. Easily switch between managing hundreds of firewalls, controlling applications, and blocking intrusion attempts and the spread of malware. Write a policy and scale its enforcement across multiple security controls within your network. Enjoy unified management and control over firewalls, applications, intrusion prevention, and file and malware protection. Comprehensibly manage your firewalls using our on-premises hardware or from any virtual environment of your choice. Flexibly deploy the same manager on your public cloud infrastructure, or boost productivity one step further with our cloud-delivered solution. Detect the most sophisticated threats sooner across all vectors and prioritize by impact for faster responses.
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    Zil.US

    Zil.US

    Zil US

    Zil.US offers international wire transfers. Open a checking account without visiting the US. Zil.US provides you with a one-stop solution for all your business needs. The platform also offers ACH, virtual cards, check mailing, and more. Zil.US is a financial technology company, not a bank or an FDIC member. Zil.US offers banking services through partnerships with FDIC member banks Silicon Valley Bank, Texas National Bank, and East-West Bank.
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    vSRX Virtual Firewall

    vSRX Virtual Firewall

    Juniper Networks

    Organizations are increasingly moving workloads to the cloud to capitalize on virtualization benefits—but with that move comes new security requirements. Enter the vSRX Virtual Firewall, providing scalable, secure protection across private, public, and hybrid clouds.
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    AWS Network Firewall
    With AWS Network Firewall, you can create firewall rules that provide fine-grained control over network traffic and easily deploy firewall security across your VPCs. Automatically scale your network firewall to protect your managed infrastructure. Protect your unique workloads with a flexible engine that can define thousands of custom rules. Centrally manage security policies across existing accounts and VPCs and automatically enforce mandatory policies on new accounts. With AWS Network Firewall, you can define firewall rules that provide fine-grained control over network traffic. Network Firewall works together with AWS Firewall Manager so you can build policies based on Network Firewall rules and then centrally apply those policies across your virtual private clouds (VPCs) and accounts. Inspect traffic flows using features such as inbound encrypted traffic inspection, stateful inspection, protocol detection, and more.
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    Securd DNS Firewall
    Make sure the Internet is always safe and available, to all your worldwide users, with our global, anycast dns firewall and dns resolver featuring 10ms resolutions, real-time threat protection, and a zero-trust posture to reduce your attack surface at the edge. Anti-virus protection can't keep up with the pace of modern malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks. It takes a layered approach to defend your assets from these threats. Deploying DNS filtering reduces the risk of a successful cyber attack by blocking access to malicious domains, disrupting downloads from compromised sites, or preventing malware from exfiltrating your data. DNS firewalls also provide real-time and historical visibility into endpoint DNS queries and resolution, which is necessary to hunt down and remediate infected and compromised devices quickly. Securd DNS Firewall is powered by a worldwide anycast network.
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    Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW
    Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW for AWS delivers advanced network security designed specifically for cloud environments. It offers easy deployment with no infrastructure to manage, allowing users to protect AWS VPCs quickly through a managed service available on AWS Marketplace. The firewall provides consistent policy management, supports automation through APIs and Terraform, and integrates with Panorama for unified management. Cloud NGFW blocks intrusions, data exfiltration, and command-and-control traffic while enforcing Zero Trust principles. Its deep learning capabilities detect and prevent zero-day attacks in real time, offering full Layer 7 protection against web-based threats and evasions. This service streamlines cloud security by eliminating complex legacy appliances and securing traffic crossing trust boundaries.
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    CIRA DNS Firewall
    CIRA's DNS Firewall provides protection against malware and phishing attacks by blocking access to malicious websites. CIRA combines advanced data science with decades of experience managing the DNS to provide a critical element of your defense-in-depth strategy. Cybersecurity is a game of layers. No one cybersecurity solution is 100% effective. Whether you have traditional endpoint or firewall protection, a defense-in-depth strategy that includes a DNS firewall is essential. DNS Firewall adds a cost-effective, low-maintenance layer to your cybersecurity footprint. By monitoring and analyzing your DNS traffic, DNS Firewall can block users from accessing malicious websites, prevent phishing attacks, and even stop malware already on your network from accessing the internet. Faster data can optimally route on networks in Canada to improve performance. Private with all data kept secure and sovereign.
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    Sophos Firewall
    The world's best visibility, protection, and response. Superior visibility into risky activity, suspicious traffic, and advanced threats helps you regain control of your network. Powerful next-gen protection technologies like deep learning and intrusion prevention keep your organization secure. Automatic threat response instantly identifies and isolates compromised systems on your network to stop threats from spreading. XG Firewall makes it easy to extend your secure network to employees anywhere. Sophos Connect provides an intuitive VPN connection client that’s easy to deploy and configure. Give your remote workers secure access to resources on the corporate network from Windows and macOS devices. Our small, ultra-affordable XG 86(w) and SD-RED devices provide the ultimate in SOHO protection with always-on dedicated or split-tunnel VPN that’s easy to deploy and manage with a variety of flexible options.
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    NetFortris Total Control Firewall
    NetFortris Total Control Firewall prevents unauthorized access to corporate data, while giving your employees the access they need to do their jobs. NetFortris delivers flexible and scalable Firewall and Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions to protect our single-location and multi-site customers, their data, and their customers from unwanted malicious traffic.
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    OPNsense

    OPNsense

    OPNsense

    Simple packet filters are becoming a thing of the past. Even the open-source domain is moving towards Next-Generation Firewalls. And OPNsense is a top player when it comes to intrusion detection, application control, web filtering, and anti-virus. No network is too insignificant to be spared by an attacker. Even home networks, washing machines, and smartwatches are threatened and require a secure environment. Firewalls are a component of the security concept. They protect against known and new threats to computers and networks. A firewall offers the highest level of protection if its functions are known, its operation is simple, and it is ideally positioned in the surrounding infrastructure. OPNsense accepts the challenge and meets these criteria in different ways. This book is the ideal companion for understanding, installing and setting up an OPNsense firewall.
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    GajShield

    GajShield

    GajShield

    GajShield is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution designed to provide in-depth protection against various attacks by tightly integrating key security functions and securely connecting remote offices and partners. It combines ICSA Certified Firewall appliances, Data Leak Prevention (DLP), Cloud Security, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Virtual Private Network (VPN), URL Filtering, Virus Screening, and Bandwidth Management into a single appliance to deliver layered network security. GajShield's Contextual Intelligence Engine enables advanced visibility of data transactions by breaking down data packets into multiple small data contexts, allowing for granular policy enforcement and efficient threat detection. The DLP solution acts as an enforcer of data security policies, detecting and preventing unauthorized transmission of confidential information through deep content inspection and contextual security analysis.
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    Palo Alto Networks VM-Series
    Meet demand with automatable, scalable and easy-to-deploy virtual firewalls ideal for environments where deploying hardware firewalls is difficult or impossible. VM-Series virtual firewalls provide all the best-in-class, ML-powered capabilities of the Palo Alto Networks next-generation hardware firewall in a virtual machine form factor, so you can secure the environments that are vital for your competitiveness and innovation. Now you can leverage a single tool to safeguard cloud speed and software-defined agility by infusing segments and microsegments with threat prevention.
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    Trellix Cloudvisory
    Uniform visibility into disparate, multi-cloud infrastructure through a single console. Reduce risk of cloud security misconfiguration resulting in exposure and compliance violation. Proactive cloud security posture using machine learning to intelligently detect anomalies. As companies continue the rush to the cloud, new threats bring additional challenges to cyber defense. At the same time, cyber security teams must shift from being perceived as a bottleneck to an enabler of business. Learn from seasoned experts, with real world examples of how to move at the speed of cloud while keeping your organization secure. Cloud-native governance of microsegmentation policies via cloud-native firewalls and security controls. Orchestrated remediation of compliance failures & governance of desired-state security policies.
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    Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls
    Palo Alto Networks offers ML-powered Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) that use inline deep learning to detect and stop the most evasive and unknown zero-day threats. These firewalls provide zero-delay signature updates, ensuring threats are blocked within seconds across the network. The platform delivers detailed visibility into IoT and connected devices, profiling them accurately to prevent unmanaged access. With AI-driven operations, it maximizes security effectiveness while minimizing downtime and resource costs. Recognized as a leader by industry analysts like Forrester, Palo Alto Networks’ NGFWs protect organizations of all sizes and complexities. They support a wide range of deployment environments including branch offices, data centers, public cloud, and 5G networks under a unified security architecture.
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    Check Point Quantum Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW)
    Check Point gateways provide superior security beyond any Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). Best designed for Sandblast Network’s protection, these gateways are the best at preventing the fifth generation of cyber attacks with more than 60 innovative security services. Based on the Infinity Architecture, the new Quantum Security Gateway™ line up of 18 models can deliver up to 1.5 Tbps of threat prevention performance and can scale on demand. Delivers the highest-caliber threat prevention with award winning SandBlast Network Zero Day protection out of the box. On-demand hyperscale threat prevention performance providing enterprises cloud level expansion and resiliency on premises. R81 unified security management control across networks, clouds, and IoT increases efficiency cutting security operations up to 80%.
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    Check Point Spark Firewall

    Check Point Spark Firewall

    Check Point Software

    Check Point Spark Firewall is an AI-powered next-generation firewall solution designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses and managed service providers seeking enterprise-grade cybersecurity protection. The platform delivers advanced threat prevention, malware protection, phishing defense, IoT security, SD-WAN functionality, and secure connectivity through an all-in-one network security appliance. With AI-driven threat intelligence and a malware block rate of up to 99.9%, Spark Firewall helps organizations defend against evolving cyber threats while maintaining high network performance. The solution supports simplified deployment through zero-touch provisioning, cloud-based management, and centralized policy administration, making it easier to manage distributed environments. Integrated features such as Wi-Fi 7, optional 5G connectivity, dual ISP support, and automated failover provide reliable and resilient business connectivity.
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    F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager
    DDoS attacks saturate bandwidth, consume network resources, and disrupt application services. Can your infrastructure successfully fend them off? Advanced Firewall Manager mitigates network threats before they disrupt critical data center resources. Unifies application configuration with network security policy for tighter enforcement. Identifies and mitigates network, protocol, DNS threats, before they reach critical data center resources. Supports SNMP, SIP, DNS, IPFIX collectors, and protects log servers from being overwhelmed. Protects data center resources with purpose-built defenses augmented by F5 threat data. Understand traffic patterns into the data center with customizable reports and analytics. Mitigate sophisticated zero-day threats or gather critical forensics using F5 iRules. Defends your network infrastructure and mobile subscribers from attacks such as DDoS.
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    Xshield

    Xshield

    ColorTokens

    Gain comprehensive visibility into deployed assets and traffic via an intuitive user interface. Simplify creation of least-privilege micro-segmentation policies through centralized policy management, eliminating the need for subnets, hypervisors, and internal firewalls. Minimize exposure by automatically extending security controls to new cloud-native workloads and applications on creation. Implement a single solution across bare-metal servers, end-user computers, or cloud-hosted virtual machines, containers, or instances. Deploy across hybrid and multi-vendor heterogeneous networks, whether on-premises or in the cloud — without replacing any hardware or infrastructure. Avoid compliance violations by isolating and controlling all communications within and across segmented groups. Rich, contextual visibility into network flow from largest trend to workload service.
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    Sangfor Athena NGFW

    Sangfor Athena NGFW

    Sangfor Technologies

    Sangfor Athena NGFW is a next-generation firewall that provides comprehensive protection for network perimeters using AI-powered threat detection. It blocks over 99% of external threats in real time through cloud-delivered AI and integrates network and web application security into a single appliance. The firewall includes a built-in SOC Lite module for rapid threat assessment and incident response. Sangfor’s solution connects with a holistic security ecosystem, including endpoint protection, secure web gateways, and extended detection and response tools. Recognized for its proven security effectiveness, Athena NGFW holds top ratings in independent cybersecurity tests. It is trusted by enterprises across industries to safeguard valuable data and maintain stable network performance.
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    Falcon Firewall Management
    Falcon Firewall Management makes it easy to create, manage and enforce policies with a simple, centralized approach. Defend against network threats, and gain instant visibility to enhance protection and inform action.Delivered via the same lightweight Falcon agent, management console and cloud-native architecture, it deploys and is operational in minutes. Simplifies operations by using the same lightweight Falcon agent, management console and cloud-native architecture. Deploys and is operational in minutes without requiring reboots, fine-tuning or complex configuration. Streamlines workflows and increases visibility across endpoint security controls due to the single management console for both endpoint protection and host firewall management. Automatically identify and view specific activities, potential threats and network anomalies.
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    Kerio Control

    Kerio Control

    GFI Software

    Detect threats, block viruses and secure VPN with the firewall built for SMB. Configure your firewall with easy-to-use traffic rules, controlling in- and outbound communications by URL, application, traffic type and more. Intrusion detection and prevention using the Snort system constantly monitors inbound and outbound network communications for suspicious activity. Log or block the communications depending on the severity. Prevent viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware from entering your network. Kerio Control goes beyond just checking files for malicious code; it scans your network traffic for potential attacks. Create secure, high-performance server-to-server connections between your offices running Kerio Control with an easy-to-setup VPN technology. Or, you can create a secure VPN connection to a remote office that doesn’t have Kerio Control deployed, using industry-standard VPN protocols.
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    SonicWall Next Generation Firewall
    Advanced threat protection, from small businesses to global enterprises and cloud environments. Discover network security made boundless. Whether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, whether in your home or in the cloud, SonicWall next-generation firewalls (NGFW) provide the security, control and visibility you need to maintain an effective cybersecurity posture. SonicWall’s award-winning hardware and advanced technology are built into each firewall to give you the edge on evolving threats. With solutions designed for networks of all sizes, SonicWall firewalls are designed to meet your specific security and usability needs, all at a cost that will protect your budget while securing your network. The SonicWall NSv Series virtual firewall offers you all the security advantages of a physical firewall with the operational and economic benefits of virtualization, including system scalability and agility, speed of system provisioning, simple management and cost reduction.
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    NSFOCUS NGFW
    As the digital attack surface grows, both the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks increase. The resulting data theft and network disruptions can both threaten your reputation and business, a comprehensive security solution is an absolute necessity in every IT infrastructure. NSFOCUS delivers a fully integrated Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) to meet the changing needs of your cloud-enabled enterprise network. It provides NGFW capabilities and collaborates with other security devices to proactively defend against cyber threats, and improve user and application experience while lowering the total cost of ownership. A dedicated AI-based content moderation module effectively recognizes content in texts, images, and videos. Use honeypots and AI algorithms to trap attacks. AI algorithms recognize attacks and apps in encrypted traffic. Scalable AI-based AV engine increases virus detection rate.