Next-Generation Firewall
Smart, Adaptive Threat Protection For the Modern Enterprise
For the Modern Enterprise
Traditional firewalls no longer suffice in the age of advanced attacks, encrypted traffic, cloud apps, and lateral movement. Pain points include:
- Inability to see or control modern applications
- Threats that bypass perimeter defenses
- Hidden attacks in encrypted flows
- Fragmented security policies across environments
- Slow threat detection and incident response
- Complexity and overhead in rule management
When firewalls fail to keep up, cyber-risks escalate, breach response is reactive, and business trust suffers.
Key Firewall Challenges
Blindness to Application Layer
Traditional firewalls filter traffic by port, protocol, or IP — but modern threats exploit applications (e.g. SaaS, web APIs).
Threats That Evade Basic Firewalls
Advanced malware, zero-day exploits, command & control tunnels, and evasive threats slip past static rules.
Encrypted Traffic as a Blind Spot
More than half of Internet traffic is encrypted. If you don’t inspect it, you can’t see hidden threats.
Inconsistent Policies Across Zones / Environments
Branches, cloud, data center, remote users often have disjointed security policies.
Slow Detection & Response
Threats often stay dormant or move laterally long before being detected.
Rule Sprawl & Operational Burden
Large rule sets, overlapping policies, redundant rules create complexity, errors, and administrative overhead.
Subnetik Solutions
Blindness to Application Layer
Deep packet inspection + application identification/control allow you to allow, block, throttle, or inspect by app or app feature.
You control the risk profile of every application, not just port traffic.
Threats That Evade Basic Firewalls
Integrate intrusion prevention systems (IPS), sandbox analysis, threat intelligence feeds to detect and block stealthy attacks.
You gain breach prevention, not just reactive blocking.
Encrypted Traffic as a Blind Spot
SSL / TLS decryption engines with selective inspection to examine encrypted flows safely and at scale.
Threats hidden in HTTPS or encrypted tunnels are revealed and mitigated
Inconsistent Policies Across Zones / Environments
A unified policy engine / management platform to enforce consistent segmentation, rules, and context across all domains.
No gaps in coverage, unified observability, consistent security posture
Slow Detection & Response
Real-time analytics, anomaly detection, prioritized alerting, and forensic tracking of threat activity.
You shrink dwell time, rapidly contain threats.
Rule Sprawl & Operational Burden
Intent-based policy modeling, automated rule cleanup, policy templates, and change control.
Operating costs drop, human error shrinks, system clarity grows.
Why This NGFW Approach Works
- Application-Level Control & Context — See and govern by user, device, application context, not just ports or IPs.
- Comprehensive Threat Prevention — Inline IPS, sandboxing, threat intel, prevention of known & unknown attacks.
- Visibility in Encrypted Traffic — Inspect SSL/TLS flows without blind spots.
- Unified Policy & Segmentation — One policy engine across branch, cloud, data center, remote.
- Rapid Detection & Response — Real-time analytics, alerting, forensic tracing.
- Operational Efficiency & Automation — Policy templates, cleanup, intent models reduce manual work.
This architecture also supports scaling across high throughput data-center environments via hardware offload, clustering, and modular scaling.
