Why Application and User Context are Vital to Next-Generation IPS

Over the last few years, we’ve increasingly seen a number of products claiming to be “next-generation.” This message is now so frequently used, it’s difficult to really understand whether the message has gotten lost in the technology or vice versa. What makes something “next-generation”?

To quote from my favorite college-unapproved secondary source, Wikipedia, which takes their definition for Next-Generation Firewalls from this article...