So what is the so-called Next Generation Firewall? Abbreviated as NGFW, it’s a term popular with vendors, and favored by the Gartner consultancy, to describe newer types of firewalls that go far ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

If you're upgrading your firewall, or installing one on your network for the first time, you'll discover that firewall technology has changed a lot in the last several years. How do you select one ...

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 ...