A Firewall / Gateway Security device will address safety, security and productivity concerns with controls to enforce Internet use policies and block access to harmful and unproductive web content. Control and manage both business and non-business related applications with granular, application-specific policies providing application classification and policy enforcement to protect against bots, malware, spyware, ransomware, worms, trojans, software vulnerabilities, and other intrusions by scanning all network traffic for malicious or anomalous patterns, thereby increasing network reliability and performance.