Usually, it is recommended to use IPS to strengthen protection against network threats, and Web-proxy to control user Internet connections. This requires integration with external systems or modules to identify the user.

There is a solution to minimize the deployment time of integrated network protection, which combines the above functionality and solves problems from a single point of management that is a Next Generation Firewall.

A Next Generation Firewall includes the following functions: IPS, URL filtering and categorization, prioritization of traffic based on severity, analysis of encrypted traffic, contextual blocking of malicious files.