{"id":5785,"date":"2014-07-24T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2014-07-24T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T05:54:00","slug":"know-firewall-now-quarter-century-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/07\/24\/know-firewall-now-quarter-century-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that the firewall is now a quarter of a century old?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that one crucial application that protects us from the cyber evil out there is already a quarter of a century old?<\/p>\n<p>The first firewall, introduced in 1991, was created to combat computer viruses and Internet worms. Over the years, as attacks and malware have become more sophisticated, the firewall has had to develop and grow with each security breach that has been discovered.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was not until 2003 that the concept of a Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) would be introduced.<\/p>\n<p>The evolution of the firewall has occurred relatively quickly. Here is a quick rundown of the firewall evolution timeline:<\/p>\n<p>1998: An Intrusion Detection System was released<br \/>\n2003: Gartner begins to discuss Next Generation Firewall<br \/>\n2006: Web application firewalls become stronger<br \/>\n2012: An evader tool is launched, as was security-enabled security<br \/>\n2014: The firewall turns 25<\/p>\n<p>A mere 10 years after the conceptualization of NGFW, McAfee was already ahead of the competition with their own NGFW development efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The firewall has had a great evolution, but its development and growth really occurred with each security breach discovered.\u00a0 These events triggered security developers to react with more and more advanced firewall technology,&#8221; said a McAfee blog.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee, part of Intel Security, celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the Firewall with the launch of an infographic showing the last 2.5 decades in review:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/history-of-the-firewall-infographic_FINAL.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5786\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/history-of-the-firewall-infographic_FINAL.png\" alt=\"history of the firewall infographic_FINAL\" width=\"2400\" height=\"5980\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/history-of-the-firewall-infographic_FINAL.png 2400w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/history-of-the-firewall-infographic_FINAL-120x300.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that one crucial application that protects us from the cyber evil out there is already a quarter of a century old?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[790,286,391],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-firewall","tag-it-security","tag-mcafee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}