Floodgate-Packet Filter is an embedded firewall from Icon Labs that allows networked devices to control the packets they process. It protects against potentially malicious attacks by filtering packets ...

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 ...

What is firewall and what are its benefits is a question that is often asked by companies. A firewall is a computer network security device that limits internet traffic entering, leaving, and moving ...

For those of you who have taken the plunge and upgraded from kernel 2.2.X (or even 2.0.X) to 2.4.X, congratulations. If, like a number of folks, you're running some form of firewall using either ...

Every organization that connects its network to the Internet needs a firewall to protect against intrusions and attacks from "out there." And today's security vendors make firewall products to fit ...

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 ...

Firewalls monitor and regulate the data moving on and off your computer or network. They can keep criminals out while allowing legitimate network traffic in. Mac OS X comes with not one but two ...

A next-generation firewall analyses network traffic and allows or denies traffic transit depending on set firewall policies based on traffic characteristics. Next-generation firewalls can read data ...

The Linux kernel includes some of the most powerful and flexible firewall code in any general-purpose operating system. This code is called Netfilter, though most of us refer to it by the name of its ...

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, this is something we aim to ...