With cybercrime taking the enterprise ecosystem by storm, the issue of securing a network infrastructure along with restricting employee access to unwanted internet resources is a top-of-mind priority ...

A firewall technology that ensures that all inbound packets are the result of an outbound request. Also called "stateful packet inspection" (SPI), it was designed to prevent harmful or unrequested ...

Enterprises have seen an explosion of new applications, devices and classes of users on their LANs, which makes it harder than ever for IT to ensure network performance, secure corporate assets and ...

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So unlike static packet filtering (an earlier technology) which examined packets based on the information in their header, stateful inspection can actually track each connection across all interfaces ...

I'm a real newbie to firewalls but need to learn about them. When comparing products I keep seeing these two terms used, but I don't understand what they mean--what is the firewall actually ...

Your Netgear router's Stateful Packet Inspection firewall protects your business network by monitoring packets of data passing through the router and blocking malicious attacks from infiltrating your ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Firewalls have historically formed the ...

We're looking at upgrading our switch infrastructure at our 30 or so sites. We have two subnets at each site, one protected and one unprotected. Currently this is handled off of a 10/100 interface on ...

When deciding on a firewall implementation, most Unix-savvy administrators have usually chosen to use ipfilter on OpenBSD for their combination of capabilities and stability, as the capabilities of ...

A column of mine in Communication Systems Design has drawn some flak. It warns of the ability of the new domestic Northern Command to use technologies developed by the Space Command to support global ...