Learn how to keep your network secure without slowing it down or causing latency. Understand everything from unified threat management (UTM) and proxys to purchasing advice and firewall placement.

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

Firewalls act as gatekeepers that regulate data flow between internal and external networks based on security rules, while antivirus tools detect malicious activity in a computer or network system ...

Firewalls can be difficult to manage. Often times rules lack granularity due to a lack of understanding of the application traffic or trying to keep up with the speed of business. Firewalls get more ...

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 ...

A variety of firewalls are available that examine different aspects of network traffic. All firewalls compare this traffic against a set of rules that mediate the flow of packets. As a business grows, ...