Recently, Greg Young of Gartner blogged about Enterprise UTM’s, comparing them to Unicorns and Pixies. I could not have agreed more with everything that Greg has wrote in his blog and would like to focus on his last bullet point. Greg discusses the “Best of breed requirements” that keep enterprises from buying UTM’s.

When asked who’s the best illusionist of all time, you’ll likely hear anything from Harry Houdini to David Copperfield to David Blane, but they don’t have anything on your IPS vendor. I often hear the question, how big or how good is Palo Alto Networks’ vulnerability research team? If you look at the website or [...]

Greg Young and John Pescatore just authored an excellent note on next-generation firewalls (see the liner notes/background in Greg’s blog). In the note, “Defining the Next-Generation Firewall,” Greg and John do an excellent job laying out the definition, the requirements, and their recommendations for next-generation firewalls in the enterprise.  Gartner notes that due to their [...]