Sangfor Athena NGFW (previously known as Sangfor Network Secure) provides comprehensive protection for every network perimeter, ensuring the safety of your valuable assets, data, and users from emerging threats.
1. Leverages real-time, cloud-delivered AI to block over 99% of external threats at the network perimeter.
2. The world's 1st NGFW integrated with NGWAF, delivering network and web application security in a single appliance.
3. The world's 1st NGFW with a built-in SOC Lite module, enabling rapid threat assessment and incident response.
4. The world's 1st NGFW that natively integrates with a holistic security ecosystem, including Athena EPP, SWG, NDR, XDR, MDR, and SASE.
Athena NGFW integrates with Sangfor Engine Zero, an AI-powered malware detection engine. Engine Zero was developed using advanced machine learning models and AI algorithms, enabling Athena NGFW to achieve a 99.76% detection rate for both known and unknown malware across the internet.
Real-Time Threat Intelligence
Athena NGFW leverages Sangfor Neural-X, a cloud-based, AI-powered threat intelligence and analytics platform.
Neural-X is continuously updated to protect against the latest indicators of compromise (IOCs) and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). For example, Athena NGFW can submit a suspicious DNS address to Neural-X for analysis. If it is identified as a known command-and-control (C&C) server, Athena NGFW automatically blocks communications to prevent further damage.
Anti-Ransomware
Athena NGFW integrates with Athena Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) as part of Sangfor’s Anti-Ransomware solution.Forensic threat intelligence data—collected from both network and endpoints—is visualized via the Athena NGFW GUI to reveal hidden ransomware processes. The solution also offers a "one-click quarantine" feature to remove the encryption-controlling application from all infected hosts.
Web Attack Prevention
Simplified Operation
Athena NGFW includes Sangfor’s Next-Generation Web Application Firewall (NGWAF) to provide robust protection for web applications.
Using semantic analysis and the industry’s first WAF with a built-in virtual execution system (VES), Sangfor NGWAF secures web applications from advanced attacks, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
Sangfor believes that firewalls should make life easier for security administrators. Athena NGFW includes a SOC Lite feature that simplifies security operations and incident response.
Instead of analyzing tons of security logs, security administrators can intuitively assess the threat levels of users and hosts through Athena NGFW’s management console. What's more, it provides actionable guidance on how to respond to detected threats.
