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 ...

Knowing what’s happening on your network is a pre-requisite to controlling the traffic. We call that visibility because it combines all of the information the firewall knows, including session and ...

After 20-plus years of service, the technology remains a core part of the IT security stack despite its long predicted demise Phil Cummings says network firewalls will continue to be a critical piece ...

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 ...

Building on the Project Monterey enterprise virtualization strategy it outlined at its VMworld conference last month, VMware Inc. today announced a framework for network, security and physical ...

As recently as a few years ago, IT personnel were trained to harden their network perimeter, barring outsiders entirely. In contrast, today’s security environment is far less clear-cut — and the role ...

Selecting UTM firewalls in an enterprise environment is more work than just picking a standard firewall, because the “UTM” moniker doesn’t offer much information about what the firewall actually does.

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That may be tough to do on your own, so you should have an approval process set up for allowing new services through your firewall. Someone on your executive management team, your network engineering ...

While it is perhaps the most basic security defense in the IT network toolbox, firewalls present the greatest challenges to today’s CISOs because of their ubiquitous nature. At least that is the ...

Juniper Networks is throwing down the gauntlet in the security market by enhancing its Software-Defined Secure Networks (SDSN) framework, which it says opens up new software revenue opportunities for ...