Next-generation firewalls provide protection but add to workload

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A third of organisations have implemented a next-generation firewall to improve protection from attacks.

According to a survey of 130 IT security professionals by AlgoSec, 57 per cent of respondents said that next-generation firewalls seemed to be adding protection but also increase the firewall management workload.

The survey also found that 70 per cent of respondents reported having to make more changes to their next-generation firewalls than traditional firewalls, while 72 per cent suffered an outage or security breach due to an application-related rule change.

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