Sangfor Athena NGFW

Next-generation firewall from Sangfor with AI-driven malware detection, formerly sold as Network Secure. It is available as a virtual appliance. Among the capabilities recorded for it are application control, deep packet inspection, intrusion prevention (ips) and stateful inspection. Its record also notes vpn gateway. It is aimed at Enterprise and small and medium business buyers.

Current Version

8.0.107

Product Page

sangfor.com/…/next-generation-fir…

Market

EnterpriseSMB

Licence

Paid

Price

Quote

Record Created

2026-09-19

Last Updated

2026-10-10

Sangfor is a Shenzhen company, founded in 2000 and listed in Shenzhen, that sells three things a Western buyer would usually buy from three different suppliers: network security, cloud infrastructure and the connectivity between sites. Its hyper-converged infrastructure and SD-WAN businesses are as large as its security one, and the products are designed to be bought together. On the security side, Sangfor NGAF is its next-generation firewall, Sangfor Endpoint Secure the endpoint agent, Sangfor Cyber Command the detection and response platform that correlates the two, and Sangfor Athena the more recent AI-driven line. Sangfor Access covers secure remote and branch connectivity. It is one of the larger Chinese security vendors with a deliberate international presence, selling across Southeast Asia in particular. Its products enter the Western public test cycles occasionally rather than routinely, so its laboratory record here is thinner than its size would suggest. Vendor page →

Website

sangfor.com

Country

🇨🇳China

Headquarters

🇨🇳Shenzhen, China

Year Established

2000

Customers

100K organisations

Users

12M devices protected

Revenue

≈ $1.1B (2025)