In today’s interconnected world, the relentless surge in cyberattacks is more than just a cause for concern; it’s a full-fledged crisis. The cyberattacks have witnessed an unprecedented rise, posing an existential threat to individuals, businesses, and even entire nations. In the past year alone, there has been a staggering 400% increase in daily cybercrime complaints, as reported by the FBI Cyber Division. To put it in perspective, that’s a jump from 1,000 to a whopping 4,000 complaints per day. This exponential growth underscores the gravity of the situation and highlights the urgency for robust cybersecurity measures.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we witnessed an unprecedented acceleration of digital transformation. The pandemic’s disruption led to a fundamental shift in the way we work, conduct business, and interact with the digital world. Remote work, cloud-based collaborations, and increased online transactions became the new norm. However, this rapid shift also opened new avenues for cybercriminals, who capitalized on the chaos. The numbers tell a sobering story: a global increase of 63% in cyberattacks in the first half of 2020, with over 36 billion records exposed. The Cyber Pandemic is upon us, and it’s evolving faster than ever before.
Here are the top 5 network security firewalls known for their utmost reliability in preventing cyberattacks-
WiJungle: WiJungle is an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-based Unified Network Security Gateway product. It enables organizations to manage and safeguard their entire network by means of a single window. Product is the world’s first comprehensive appliance that eradicates the need to have standalone security silos like Network Firewall, Web Application Firewall, Routers, Proxy Servers, SD-WAN, DLP, Hotspot Gateway, Vulnerability Assessment, etc. and reduces the capital investment of an organization by up to 60 percent. It further simplifies the day-day management and scalability challenges. The product has 42 variants to serve all levels of organizations.
Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls are easy to deploy into your organization’s network and purposefully designed for simplicity, automation, and integration. Available in hardware and virtualized platforms with prevention-focused architecture that’s easy to deploy and operate–and incredibly effective.PA Series NGFW provides consistent protection to your entire network perimeter–from your headquarters and office campus, branch offices, and data center to your mobile and remote workforce.
Sophos: Sophos XG Firewall provides comprehensive next-generation firewall protection that exposes hidden risks, blocks unknown threats, and automates response. Sophos is protecting more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyber threats. Powered by SophosLabs, our cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions are able to adapt and evolve to secure endpoints and networks against never-before-seen cybercriminal tactics and techniques. Multi-Core architecture appliances with a high no. of expansion slots make scalability a convenience.
Fortinet: FortiGate NGFWs enable security-driven networking and consolidate industry-leading security capabilities such as intrusion prevention system (IPS), web filtering, secure sockets layer (SSL) inspection, and automated threat protection. Fortinet NGFWs meet the performance needs of highly scalable, hybrid IT architectures, enabling organizations to reduce complexity and manage security risks. They are powered by artificial intelligence (AI)-driven FortiGuard Labs and deliver proactive threat protection with high-performance to stay ahead of the rapidly expanding threat landscape.
