Security continues to be the biggest concern for IT managers and, in turn, design engineers developing firewall systems. With more viruses popping up and hackers attacking more often, corporations are ...

Stateful firewalls, like the PIX sound pretty impressive, and they are but they are not without their drawbacks as well. They do offer speed and transparency but remember, a packet has to make its way ...

A stateless firewall is an efficient, low-maintenance way to screen lots of network traffic quickly — but there are a few important drawbacks. In networking, “state” refers to the context or session ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Firewalls have historically formed the ...

In a marketing world that sees words and phrases like "new," "improved," and "next-generation" thrown around like New Year's confetti, is the "next-gen firewall" label meaningful or just more ...

With cybercrime taking the enterprise ecosystem by storm, the issue of securing a network infrastructure along with restricting employee access to unwanted internet resources is a top-of-mind priority ...

Many people anticipated that enterprise organizations would adopt Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies later than service providers or multi-tenant data centers and cloud service providers. We ...

When you hear of the term firewall, you might believe there is only a single type, but that is not the case. There are different types of firewalls, and luckily for you, we aim to explain them in this ...

British banks are wasting thousands of pounds on firewalls that are not doing their job, according to network security pioneer Nir Zuk. Zuk, who is widely credited with co-developing the stateful ...

When deciding on a firewall implementation, most Unix-savvy administrators have usually chosen to use ipfilter on OpenBSD for their combination of capabilities and stability, as the capabilities of ...