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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today’s next-generation firewalls are “application aware” but they aren’t aware of the connectivity needs among applications. It’s common for a change in a firewall rule for one application to break ...

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

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.

Connecting your network to the Internet without a firewall is like leaving the front door of your office wide open when you leave on vacation. Chances are high that someone will eventually walk in and ...

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 ...

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.

Firewalls, both hardware and software, protect computers from hackers and other online threats by blocking dangerous pieces of data from reaching the system. While hardware firewalls offer ...