The different types of vendors in the network firewalls market include large network security vendors, use-case-specific firewall vendors, and native players. Key capabilities of network firewalls include application awareness and control intrusion detection and prevention advanced malware detection logging, and reporting. According to the researcher, “network firewalls secure traffic bidirectionally across networks.” Though these firewalls are mainly deployed as hardware appliances, customers are increasingly implementing virtual appliance firewalls, cloud-native firewalls from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, and Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) offerings hosted directly by vendors. has released its 2021 Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls. The editors at Solutions Review highlight what’s changed since the last iteration of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls and provide an analysis of the new report.Īnalyst house Gartner, Inc.