What is the Difference Between Traditional Firewall & Next-Generation Firewall
IPS --- Intrusion Prevention System
AMP--- Advanced Malware Protection
AV ------- Anti Virus
--> Next-Generation Firewalls can filter the traffic based upon applications that are not possible in Traditional Firewalls. ( Application Visibility & Control)
Ex: If you want to block Facebook Chat while allowing users to browse Facebook or you want to block WhatsApp application which is only possible in Next-Generation Firewalls.
--> Next-Generation Firewalls are created to replace the Traditional Firewalls in the Firewall Industry.
--> Traditional Firewall cannot check the data which is passing through firewall they can only check port or IP address information for filtering the traffic.
--> Below are the advantages of Next-Generation Firewalls compared to Traditional Firewalls:
1) Next-Generation Firewalls can even inspect SSL/ SSH encrypted traffic by doing SSL/SSH Decryption.
2) Next-Generation Firewalls also does Intrusion Prevention/ Intrusion Detection Services.
3) Next-Generation Firewalls can also detect Malware and Viruses in the network.
4) URL Filtering is also possible with Next-Generation Firewalls.
5) We can create the policies based upon username/User ID
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Great. Very well explained (y).
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