A security vendor regarded as a pioneer of firewall products.
Credited as the company that first established the commercial firewall product category, it now offers a unified security platform. Founder Gil Shwed's 1993 product, FireWall-1, is credited as the first commercial implementation of stateful inspection -- a technique that tracks the context of a connection rather than inspecting packets in isolation -- and it remains foundational to how most firewalls work today.
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