Most system administrators in Qatar not very much familiar with McAfee next generation firewalls, it is less popular here compared to Sonicwall,Cyberoam and fortinet. But may in Government using McAfee NGFW and McAfee Web gateway products. It has very special features that attracts big corporates and government companies. HTSQatar did many such implementations, our sales engineers will be very happy to share project details.

As a technical person, following are the main features that attracts me.

1- Clustering.
2- Centralized mangement
3- Very detailed work flow that we can define ourself.
4- Virtual or appliance option.
5- Web Caching.
6- Very sophisticated and flexible method to handle https traffic.

Eventhoung Fortinet and Sonicwall and Cyberoam to an extend introduced deep packet inspection, I must has we are very much impressed the way McAfee Web gateway handling HTTPS traffic.

Will write more. Watch this space.