Validating Security Configurations and Detecting Backdoors in New Network Devices

By year-end 2014, Gartner predicts that 70% of new firewall purchases will be next-generation firewalls. (Young, 2013) Organizations are quickly realizing the practical benefits of combining deep packet inspection, application awareness, IPS/threat detection, VPN, SSL interception, web filtering, and traditional firewall functionality into a single platform.