{"id":3137,"date":"2013-02-12T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2013-08-13T10:34:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T17:34:22","slug":"on-gartners-magic-quadrant-for-enterprise-network-firewalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/on-gartners-magic-quadrant-for-enterprise-network-firewalls\/","title":{"rendered":"On Gartner\u2019s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who missed it, Gartner, Inc.<\/a> recently released its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls and it gives me pleasure to announce that we are again positioned in the \u201cLeaders\u201d quadrant. If you\u2019re interested in reading the full report and see all of Gartner\u2019s findings, you can get it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/span><\/div><\/a> <\/p>\n

While the full report has a number of interesting data points about the enterprise network firewall market that are worth noting, there are three that I find particularly interesting and want to highlight to you.<\/p>\n

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  1. Gartner\u2019s report offered guidance to customers on what they should assess when they\u2019re analyzing next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities. According to Gartner, \u201cAdvances in threats have driven mainstream firewall demand for next-generation firewall capabilities. Buyers should focus on the quality, not quantity, of the features and the R&D behind them. This market includes mature vendors and new entrants.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. The report also reflects on the increasing install and purchasing rates of next-generation firewalls by stating that, \u201cLess than 10% of Internet connections today are secured using NGFWs. By year-end 2014, this will rise to 35% of the installed base, with 60% of new purchases being NGFWs.\" <\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Gartner reports that customers are not necessarily looking for a homogenous vendor environment when it comes to their network, sharing research that shows, \u201cThrough 2015, more than 75% of enterprises will continue to seek network security from a vendor different from their infrastructure vendor.\u201d<\/em> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Our interpretation of Gartner\u2019s report<\/a>, and these data points, lead us to believe that enterprises continue the widespread migration to NGFWs and the report articulates the reasons why. While these were the highlights that stood out to me, there\u2019s much more worth reading in the entire Magic Quadrant report and I encourage you to read the complete report to learn about all of Gartner\u2019s findings. <\/p>\n

    I wanted to close by sharing feedback one of our customers gave us after reading Gartner\u2019s report:<\/p>\n

    \u201cGartner\u2019s evaluation of Palo Alto Networks technology is refreshing to me. Four years ago we needed to refresh our firewall\/IDS\/IPS\/web protection strategy. It was clear to me that this technology vertical needed to be reinvented. I realized then that Palo Alto was a game changer. Our investment in Palo Alto technology over the years has been critical to the success of our organization.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

    We thank our customers - our partners in this journey - that continue to advocate to their peers, stakeholders, and the broader analyst community that Palo Alto Networks is the definitive leader in this transformed network security market.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For those who missed it, Gartner, Inc. recently released its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls and it gives me pleasure to announce that we are again positioned in the \u201cLeaders\u201d quadrant. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[117,116,111],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","tag-gartner","tag-magic-quadrant","tag-ngfw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}