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Global Network Firewall Market—Evolution Towards Hybrid Data Center Security and SASE

  • Report

  • 59 Pages
  • August 2021
  • Region: Global
  • Frost & Sullivan
  • ID: 5410188

Network firewalls are one of the oldest solution categories in the cybersecurity market. Much like firewalls that isolate parts of a building to prevent the spread of fire, network firewalls emerged to separate organizations' private networks from the public internet. Early firewalls enabled organizations to inspect incoming and outgoing traffic. Over time, firewalls evolved to include additional functionalities that allow organizations to examine traffic more deeply and provided organizations with more active security controls.

While network firewalls have been evolving in the past years, they did not emerge to secure environments that fully or partially rely on the cloud. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transformation of the organizational perimeter. Since nearly all employees became remote and started using external applications, organizations faced a new challenge of securing decentralized and distributed environments. Because of that, a growing number of organizations will choose the newer generation of firewall solutions that are better suited for today’s infrastructure. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) will take the central stage in the network security market, with the firewall as a service (FWaaS) component gradually replacing legacy firewalls.

Organizations will turn to a new set of networking and security practices with zero trust principles at their core. Vendors will attempt to reinforce the importance of traditional network firewalls within the new security architecture, but their role will be declining. At the same time, although organizations are migrating workloads to the cloud, their data centers will not cease to exist. While some organizations may be slow in adopting the cloud, others may choose to keep their data centers for compliance reasons or privacy concerns. The continued reliance on traditional data centers against the backdrop of the cloud migration trend indicates that the use-cases for network firewalls will continue to be in demand in the foreseeable future.


Table of Contents

Strategic Imperatives
Why is it Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
The Strategic Imperative 8™
The Impact of the Top Three Strategic Imperatives on the Global Network Firewall Market
Growth Opportunities Fuel the Growth Pipeline Engine™

Growth Opportunity Analysis - Network Firewall Market
The Evolution of Network Security
Network Firewall Market Scope of Analysis
Network Firewall Market Segmentation
Key Competitors for the Network Firewall Market
Key Growth Metrics for the Network Firewall Market
Distribution Channels for Network Firewall Market
Growth Drivers for the Network Firewall Market
Growth Restraints for the Network Firewall Market
Forecast Assumptions - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast by Product - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast by Region - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast by Industry Verticals - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast by Company Size - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast Analysis - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast Analysis by Region - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast Analysis by Industry Vertical - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast Analysis by Company Size - Network Firewall Market
Pricing Trends and Forecast Analysis - Network Firewall Market
Competitive Environment - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Share - Network Firewall Market
Revenue Share Analysis - Network Firewall Market

Growth Opportunity Analysis - Virtual Network Firewall Market
Key Growth Metrics for the Virtual Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast - Virtual Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast by Region - Virtual Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast Analysis - Virtual Network Firewall Market

Growth Opportunity Analysis - On-premise Network Firewall Market
Key Growth Metrics for the On-premise Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast - On-premise Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast by Region - On-premise Network Firewall Market
Revenue Forecast Analysis - On-premise Network Firewall Market

Growth Opportunity Universe - Network Firewall Market
Growth Opportunity 1: Expansion Into the Latin American Market, 2021
Growth Opportunity 2: Hybrid Security Offerings, 2021
Growth Opportunity 3: Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), 2021

Insights for CISOs
The Hybrid Security Model
Recommendations

Next Steps
Your Next Steps
List of Exhibits
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