p Organizations of all sizes depend on their networks to access internal and external mission critical applications. As advances in networking continue to provide tremendous benefts, organizations are increasingly challenged by sophisticated and fnancially motivated attacks designed to disrupt communication, degrade performance and compromise data. Malicious attacks penetrate outdated stateful packet inspection frewalls with advanced application layer exploits. Point products add layers of security, but are costly, difcult to manage, limited in controlling network misuse and inefective against the latest multipronged attacks. p