Todays evolving threat landscape renders stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewalls irrelevant. SPI does not secure your organization against malware passing from the web & mobile devices or enable application control, which can hurt the productivity of your employees & your organization. In addition, as business-critical applications move to the cloud, organizations need to ensure that bandwidth is available so that employees can quickly & easily access vital data. Only deep packet inspection (DPI) can do all this, by inspecting every byte of every packet. However, lesser solutions lack the power & sophistication to accomplish DPI without turning the firewall into a bottleneck for high-speed broadband networks. Organizations should not have to trade advanced DPI security & application control for network performance.