Content Inspection security technology, led by anti-virus AV) and intrusion detection systems (IDS), is converging on network firewalls. This research note looks at the technology trend of firewalls ...

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A personal firewall complements traditional defenses such as gateway firewalls and anti-virus efforts. In a world of remote/mobile users and wireless access points, every endpoint PC extends your ...

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?

Last month, we discussed consolidating multiple security functions and management into a single overlay intrusion-prevention firewall architecture from a company called iPolicy. If that idea intrigued ...

Yup, I think we're in a stew just waiting to hear some more specific requirements that a firewall/router can actually address. As for that hardware you linked, it is interesting. Obviously simple NAT ...