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 ...

Citing an increase in attacks that take advantage of holes in existing firewall technology, NetScreen Technologies Inc. said on Monday that it will release new “deep packet inspection” features across ...

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 ...

I'm a real newbie to firewalls but need to learn about them. When comparing products I keep seeing these two terms used, but I don't understand what they mean--what is the firewall actually ...

Our Special Focus author (tgreene@nww.com) this week takes a look at the world of deep packet inspection. First there were packet filters. Then stateful inspection firewalls; then intrusion detection.

It’s easy to turn a deaf ear to the controversy surrounding recent copyright protection bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the PROTECT IP Act, which threatened to curtail free speech on ...

Check Point FireWall-1 is the 800-pound gorilla of the commercial firewall industry. Check Point Software Technologies has ported its popular, sophisticated and relatively easy-to-administer firewall ...