Every security team has at least one staff member spending time updating software, monitoring logs and tweaking rule settings for on-premise firewalls in order to continually manage risk by balancing ...

Firewalls act as gatekeepers that regulate data flow between internal and external networks based on security rules, while ...

Anyone running multiple firewalls in a complex, enterprise environment knows how difficult it can be to catch misconfigurations, avoid conflicting rules, identify vulnerabilities and meet auditing and ...

Poorly managed firewall rules can lead to security disasters. Here, security managers in the IT Central Station community review the top firewall management suites: Tufin, AlgoSec, FireMon and RedSeal ...

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. announced that its Quantum Firewall Software R82 has achieved Common Criteria EAL4+ certification, reinforcing its credibility as a security solution for ...

Mike Chapple is associate 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 ...

Altor Networks has rewritten its firewall for virtual machines so the software plugs directly into VMware hypervisors, boosting the performance of the firewall by a factor of 10, the company says.

Most companies rely on firewalls – as a basic element of network security to control access to users and application resources to protect the business – but the IT landscape is changing and so must ...

Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. Finding a firewall that can take on many functions streamlines management and reduces costs for the Albert Gallatin Area School ...

ABOUT A DECADE AGO, I learned the hard way why protecting the desktop is one of the most difficult tasks. A virus infection came into our shop through an outside contractor, and it spread everywhere.