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 have to say first of all I'm not a networking expert. I work at a large university that is centralizing its IT. As such, when a department on boards their IT, the desktop support team - which I am ...

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 ...

Embedded control systems manage our cars, automate our factories, and maintain the power grid. Yet many developers don’t include a firewall to protect against cyber-attacks, believing their devices ...

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 ...

I've been writing a multipart series on building a transparent (bridging) firewall using Linux. Specifically, I'm using the distribution OpenWrt running on a Linksys WRT54GL broadband router, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...