Engineers fix the shortcomings of the traditional firewall

Do you find yourself putting a Band-Aid solution on a legacy firewall, such as strapping on an intrusion-prevention system here or antivirus software there? If the firewall is a security device, why should we have to surround it with other security devices to help it do its job? A group of security engineers addressed those shortcomings with a new kind of firewall built from the ground up.

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