Which lesser known firewall product has the best chance at unseating the market leaders?

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2020-07-20T12:40:00Z

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Which lesser known firewall product has the best chance at unseating the market leaders?

Answered Aug 06, 2020

There are so many products in the market today. Who are we going to be talking about 3-5 years from now?

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Fortweb677 (SE at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees)

Netscope, Zscaler if they continue route they are on now. FIrewalls needs great deal of automation on each end, datacenter and endpoint. In between you have branch office. So blending EPP and firewall on enduser machine + blending branch office with datacenter firewall will take place.
Sophos is doing something on SMB side which may simplify operations. However, they are yet to put big box in to data center and I believe they are due next year. Fortinet has lost itself in so many products. CP, PA missing some key products in unified portfolio.
So, Sophos, Netscope or Zscaler if they blend with some traditional vendor and integrate.

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2020-07-21T05:56:24Z21 July 20

Rony_Sklar

Would you mind elaborating on why you think Netscope and Zscaler are on the way up? What are they doing that sets them apart from other vendors?

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2020-07-22T08:30:29Z22 July 20

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Stuart Berman

I doubt we will see a new firewall vendor, but I believe we will see new architectures that leverage the advanced capabilities of NGFW delivery through ISPs, think of it is a clean pipe for Internet access. The ISPs will use firewalls (virtualized and segmented by customers) to do the filtering before it hits your networks, just like we see with spam filtering.I also believe we will see more edge networking, 5G networking where the firewall function will be built into the network at the edge. We already are seeing early versions of the with things like Curiosity OS by Sprint working with Ericsson. I think they will easily add existing VM firewalls to their platform and not reinvent the wheel.

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2020-07-21T17:34:53Z21 July 20

Rony_Sklar

@Stuart Berman Interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing. Are there examples of companies working together like Ericsson and Sprint?

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2020-07-22T08:44:27Z22 July 20

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ISRAEL DIAZ DOMINGUEZ

Those firewalls that allow extend the perimeter. Nowadays, there is a issue with the static perimeter and all is going to change in the next semesters. In my opinion, solutions like Netskope are offering this extended perimeter functionality and they could lead the market.

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2020-07-21T13:26:56Z21 July 20

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Nehad Elkordi

Cisco Portfolio is focusing on total security inside and outside including cloud security,two factor authentication & SDWAN.
Forti Portfolio is focusing on total security too inside and outside including cloud security & two factor authentication.
both are working with Sandbox which is important for 0 day attack.
Therefore If R&D for both vendors will keep as they are today i think they'll be market leaders and away by far for the next 5 years

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2020-07-21T13:11:27Z21 July 20

Rony_Sklar

@Nehad Elkordi Cisco and Fortinet are currently top players - are there other products that are less known that you think are going to compete with Cisco and Fortinet?

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2020-07-22T08:53:41Z22 July 20

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Lipaz Hessel

Well with the SD-WAN raising it is common to see cloud firewall implementations, like ZScaler.
but as data center firewall, I don’t see any new player comes out unless it will come with a new surprising feature as the market have so many good vendors.

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2020-07-20T17:16:31Z20 July 20

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BrianCook

I can think of 2 Firewalls that should be doing much better then they are, Kerio Control and ZyXEL ZyWall. Both have been around for a long time but have never gained the market share I feel they should have and I often find people have never heard of them.

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2020-08-04T13:03:07Z04 August 20

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Ian MacFarlane

Meraki / Fortinet / SonicWall

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2020-07-21T03:17:27Z21 July 20

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Mukesh_Sharma

It,s totally depends on your security requirements.

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2020-08-06T03:12:10Z06 August 20

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Mukesh_Sharma

Checkpoint

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2020-07-21T22:13:47Z21 July 20

Rony_Sklar

@Mukesh_Sharma can you elaborate on how you think Checkpoint is competing against market leaders for firewall products?

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2020-07-22T08:56:25Z22 July 20

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Victor Trejo

Everyone wants to bring clients to their Hosted (cloud site) and control likely clients mini-clouds. My humble opinion will be these that can allow the client host their device.
City Networks vs Rural areas still many issues

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2020-07-21T21:57:11Z21 July 20

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VishalGilatar

AI based firewall

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2020-07-21T17:02:24Z21 July 20

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Mats Wahnberg

Look into Cisco security portfolio . Cisco have great overall Management skills to handled the big security scoop. Fortinet and PaloAlto is great to.

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2020-07-21T11:00:21Z21 July 20

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Would you mind elaborating on why you think Netscope and Zscaler are on the way up? What are they doing that sets them apart from other vendors? — Rony_Sklar
@Stuart Berman Interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing. Are there examples of companies working together like Ericsson and Sprint? — Rony_Sklar
@Nehad Elkordi Cisco and Fortinet are currently top players - are there other products that are less known that you think are going to compete with Cisco and Fortinet? — Rony_Sklar
@Mukesh_Sharma can you elaborate on how you think Checkpoint is competing against market leaders for firewall products? — Rony_Sklar

Fortweb677 (SE at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees) · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-21T05:56:24Z

Netscope, Zscaler if they continue route they are on now. FIrewalls needs great deal of automation on each end, datacenter and endpoint. In between you have branch office. So blending EPP and firewall on enduser machine + blending branch office with datacenter firewall will take place.
Sophos is doing something on SMB side which may simplify operations. However, they are yet to put big box in to data center and I believe they are due next year. Fortinet has lost itself in so many products. CP, PA missing some key products in unified portfolio.
So, Sophos, Netscope or Zscaler if they blend with some traditional vendor and integrate.

Would you mind elaborating on why you think Netscope and Zscaler are on the way up? What are they doing that sets them apart from other vendors? — Rony_Sklar

Which lesser known firewall product has the best chance at unseating the market leaders?

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