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 ...

I am currently tasked with creating a single firewall for wired endpoint devices like desktops, printers, etc. Departmental servers behind these individual firewalls will be migrated elsewhere. We ...

While firewalls can secure Internet access, protect mission-critical information, and leverage the Internet to connect a global enterprise, they’re just the starting point for building a security ...

News about viruses and ransomware seems to be a daily occurrence. In some cases systems are breached because of direct attacks on the system or through other means such as via email attachments or ...

Firewalls can be difficult to manage. Often times rules lack granularity due to a lack of understanding of the application traffic or trying to keep up with the speed of business. Firewalls get more ...

Is your firewall infrastructure coming up for a hardware refresh? More importantly, do you even know if it is time to upgrade? If you answered "no" to those two questions, then it might be time for a ...

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...

To defend against data loss and theft, companies need as much protection as possible from external threats. Hardware and software firewalls prevent malicious traffic from reaching computers connected ...

Firewall penetration testing examines the firewall as a security control and identifies the weaknesses that allow unwanted traffic to reach internal systems.  It helps to make the network secure by ...