Working out of offices at Greylock and Sequoia, he came back with the next-generation firewall.

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Next Generation Firewall and Unified Threat Management are two names for the same thing.

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To this end, Nir has focused on putting together a top-notch team to build next-generation firewall technologies.

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As you listen to Francois, compare his story to that of the so-called Next Generation Firewall vendors who have settled on a subset of network protections to define NGF, namely IPS and application awareness.

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Check Point created the first firewall using "stateful inspection" -- the second-generation of firewall technology widely used today.

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