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Fast forward twenty-seven years, and a firewall is still an organization’s first line of defense against cyber attacks.Deliver unified and comprehensive visibility for cloud-native, custom web applications to help ensure optimal service levels and user satisfaction with key business services 2017, large scale, multi-vector, mega attacks using advance attack tools and is driving advance threat prevention solutions.īack in 1993, Check Point CEO Gil Shwed introduced the first stateful inspection firewall, FireWall-1. 2010, rise of targeted, unknown, evasive, polymorphic attacks which affected most businesses and drove anti-bot and sandboxing products.

Generation 3, Early 2000’s, exploiting vulnerabilities in applications which affected most businesses and drove Intrusion Prevention Systems Products (IPS).

Generation 2, Mid 1990’s, attacks from the internet affected all business and drove creation of the firewall.

Generation 1, Late 1980’s, virus attacks on stand-alone PC’s affected all businesses and drove anti-virus products.

Though packet filtering firewalls are still in use today, firewalls have come a long way as technology has developed throughout the decades.

Firewalls have existed since the late 1980’s and started out as packet filters, which were networks set up to examine packets, or bytes, transferred between computers.

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