Many people anticipated that enterprise organizations would adopt Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies later than service providers or multi-tenant data centers and cloud service providers. We ...

Firewalls and IDSes traditionally have been separate functions, but vendors such as NetScreen Technologies and Check Point Software Technologies are beginning to integrate the technologies together.

Increasingly, we find organizations looking to a layered firewall model where the first line of defense is not in a rack in the data center, it’s in the cloud. Organizations are turning to cloud-based ...

Home computer users and small-business entrepreneurs usually know enough about broadband Internet security to protect their data with a firewall. In most of these cases, a single firewall at a point ...

Ask any security-conscious enterprise sys admin (hopefully they are all born with the security gene) and they will tell you that they dread outside social networks. In more cases than not, these ...

For businesses large and small, firewalls mean more than network security, they also mean unknown amounts of network downtime during configuration and loads of extra expense for consultants and ...

Hackers are now targeting individual Internet users and their unprotected home computers for nefarious purposes, such as launching denial-of-service attacks. This makes firewall protection for any ...

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Hosted service vendor Telco Systems is hoping to make it easier for businesses to buy cloud-based routers and firewalls, but the company first has to convince service providers it’s a good idea.