Do you feel secure when you open your laptop? But do you know what makes using your PC and browsing the internet so safe? Today, we’ll talk about a firewall – a basic but important part of any ...

What Is a Host Based Firewall and Is it Secure Enough? Your email has been sent Most devices come with a host based firewall, but is it enough? Learn about this vital ...

Firewalls are guard dogs in a box, designed to resist brute-force attacks, foil hackers and generally police everything going in and out of networks. It’s hard not to rely on them. But it’s also easy ...

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

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. A firewall is an essential security tool for ...

Last time, we discussed some of the limitations of the current generation of WAN firewalls, such as the fact that they are blind to the growing number of applications that transit port 80. Today, ...

Defending cloud workloads is big business with multiple vendor technologies in play. Among the most common types of technologies is a cloud network firewall. Much like a regular firewall, this ...

Why waste money on an enterprise firewall when you can build your own from old PC parts?

Selecting UTM firewalls in an enterprise environment is more work than just picking a standard firewall, because the “UTM” moniker doesn’t offer much information about what the firewall actually does.