To keep up with the ever-changing threat landscape and identify, investigate, and block modern cyberthreats such as targeted attacks, ransomware, advanced persistent threats etc., firewalls need sophisticated technologies to ensure accurate and real-time network protection. With the immense growth in web-based applications, today’s network security devices not only need to understand the network, but they also need to be fluent in the language of applications – they must be “application-aware”. Identifying an application, its services, or its application family using advanced deep packet inspection (DPI) technology allows firewalls to become intelligent, providing granular visibility and real-time analytics to ensure the highest level of security. Expand your traditional firewall functions by integrating DPI to provide your clients with next-generation firewalls, including more layers of the OSI model.