[The following is excerpted from "Building and Maintaining Effective Firewall Configurations," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Perimeter Security Tech Center.] Much of the innovation ...

Enterprise firewalls must have policies to control traffic, ability to create site-to-site VPNs using standards-based IPsec, translate addresses and port numbers (NAT) when needed, and apply basic ...

Mac OS X has long included a basic firewall, but with the release of Mac OS X 10.5—also known as Leopard—this fundamental security technology is moving in a new and innovative direction. As with any ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0 aces all basic personal firewall ...

For businesses large and small, firewalls mean more than network security, they also mean unknown amounts of network downtime during configuration and loads of extra expense for consultants and ...

Initially, firewalld looks difficult to use, but it really isn't. Services and zones make it easy to put the pieces together and configure Linux firewalls. Although it also works on the netfilter code ...

Network functions virtualization, or NFV, is a continuing hot topic in the network engineering world, but it can be difficult to understand for network engineers and IT managers. What sorts of ...