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Greg Young is a research vice president in Gartner and the lead analyst for network security. Mr. Young has experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security… Read Full Bio

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New Network Firewall Magic Quadrant Published

by Greg Young  |  November 24, 2008  |  Comments Off

The 2H09 Enterprise Network Firewall Magic Quadrant (MQ) was published on Friday here.

This edition of the firewall MQ was more challenging than most years because the acquisition of Secure Computing by McAfee, and the announcement by Nokia of changes to their security appliance business happened in the middle of the analysis.  Also, my coauthor John Pescatore and I wanted to dig further into branch office specific requirements to reflect the changes we see in enterprises.

This year’s edition saw a significant change in the evaluation criteria weighting.  The Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) capabilities we weighted more heavily, and we narrowed the focus more on the purely enterprise capabilities.  We were able to do this as we published the first MarketScope for SMB Multifunction Firewalls this year.  For the IPS market, we have the Enterprise Stand Alone IPS Magic Quadrant, and we cover the "in the firewall" IPS in the firewall MQ.

Adam Hils is currently working on a Critical Capabilities research note for SMB Multifunction Firewalls, which looks at three use-cases – SMB, enterprise branch office, and business-to-business (B2B).

Here is a graphic of how we cover the firewall and IPS markets in our major market notes:

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