The next-generation firewall was essentially born out of a need to provide much-needed visibility and control over users and their applications. The app control report looks like this in most cases:
This sampling of app control reports that a majority of traffic in modern firewalls is going unidentified, it’s unclassified, unknown, generic HTTP or Generic HTTPS. This is considered as the biggest problem in the fastest growing world because organizations reported that up to 90% of their application traffic was unidentified.
It’s because all firewall app control relies on signatures to identify applications and of course, some custom vertical market apps will never have a signature, some apps are evasive, constantly changing their behavior and signature, and others have simply resorted to using generic web browser like connections to communicate out through the firewall because those are generally unblocked on most firewalls. The problem is resolved by Sophos through:
- Synchronized App Control
Automatically identifies hundreds of unknown, evasive, and custom Windows and Mac applications to easily prioritize the apps you want, and block the ones you don’t.
- CASB and Cloud App Visibility
Cloud Application Visibility identifies all browser applications and cloud services to identify Shadow IT and data at risk to get it under control quickly and easily.
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