A firewall is a device that protects you from a possibly hostile network by monitoring and restricting TCP/IP communications based on the policies that you set. The device is traditionally dedicated ...

The basic firewall appears to be a much-overlooked security measure. A recent survey commissioned by McAfee of 1,000 small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in Hong Kong, found a high 86 percent of ...

Firewall architectures have been changing for 35 years, sometimes to accommodate better technology and hardware, but just as ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A common misconception about firewalls is that they are ...

Karen Scarfone is the principal consultant for Scarfone Cybersecurity. She provides cybersecurity publication consulting services to organizations and was formerly a senior computer scientist for the ...

For businesses large and small, firewalls mean more than network security, they also mean unknown amounts of network downtime during configuration and loads of extra expense for consultants and ...

Attacks targeting FortiGate firewalls are surging amid fears that two recent Fortinet vulnerabilities have not been properly patched.

Zero-trust security startup Illumio Inc. today announced the general availability of a new integrated solution, designed in partnership with Microsoft Corp., to bring zero-trust enforcement to the ...

Other things have changed, too. Today, standalone firewall products are more the exception than the rule. I took a look at five major firewalls on the market today, and almost everything that came my ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global network security firewall market is expected to post a CAGR of close to 12% during the period 2020-2024, according to the latest market research report by Technavio ...

If one was to ask a group of strangers on the street to name some of the most popular computer security tools, one of the first things that would pop into their minds is firewalls. Though other ...