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 ...

Learn how firewalls have progressed from simple packet filtering to more sophisticated application-level filtering. Webopedia.com defines a firewall as “a system designed to prevent unauthorized ...

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 ...

The humble firewall has come a long way since the packet-filtering days of yore. The first firewalls were developed by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) back in the late 1980s. These early ...

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 ...