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 ...

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 ...

I'm a real newbie to firewalls but need to learn about them. When comparing products I keep seeing these two terms used, but I don't understand what they mean--what is the firewall actually ...

To be more specific, the Cisco PIX appliances are network layer firewalls that use stateful inspection to keep the bad guys out of the network. The way this works is that these firewalls allow ...

Check Point FireWall-1 is the 800-pound gorilla of the commercial firewall industry. Check Point Software Technologies has ported its popular, sophisticated and relatively easy-to-administer firewall ...

Citing an increase in attacks that take advantage of holes in existing firewall technology, NetScreen Technologies Inc. said on Monday that it will release new “deep packet inspection” features across ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that organizations rely on to protect ...

A firewall technology that ensures that all inbound packets are the result of an outbound request. Also called "stateful packet inspection" (SPI), it was designed to prevent harmful or unrequested ...

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 ...

A FIREWALL protects networked computers from intentional hostile intrusion that could compromise confidentiality or result in data corruption or denial of service. A FIREWALL protects networked ...