Before the era of UTM (Unified Threat Management or next-generation firewall), we most often dealt with stateful firewall devices. The principle of operation of the stateful firewall is primarily operating on the headers of the third network layer (L3) and the fourth transport layer (L4) of the OSI model. Thanks to the understanding of headers […]

Often, during meetings with clients, network engineers and security specialist there is following question posed: “What firewall product best suits their environment and which one is the best currently on the market?” Like almost always the answer could be “Well, it depends” …