Firewalls are an essential part of network security, yet Gartner says 95% of all firewall breaches are caused by misconfiguration. In my work I come across many firewall configuration mistakes, most ...

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 ...

Intel’s new “Twin Lake” processors are low-cost, low-power chips designed for entry-level computers. The first PCs powered by the chips started to arrive late last year, including systems made for use ...

I have an older Cisco Content Engine running a custom flavor of Linux. The machine has 2.5G RAM, dual onboard NICs, a single-core processor and if my assumption is correct, it'll need an additional ...

Your desktop firewall may not offer enough protection. There are various options available to increase your security. Two of these options are free, while the other has an associated cost. The ...

Cisco's Mesh Policy Engine supports its own firewalls as well as third-party firewalls from vendors including Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Juniper. Cisco next month will deliver a core piece of ...

Globalscale Technologies has created a new open source quad core networking board designed to provide users with high-speed connectivity using the latest Wi-Fi 6 standards, 5G and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

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 ...

Masergy Communications Inc. announced Virtual f(n), a network functions virtualization (NFV) solution that puts networking routing and firewall capabilities entirely into the software realm. The ...