[The following is excerpted from "Building and Maintaining Effective Firewall Configurations," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Perimeter Security Tech Center.] Much of the innovation ...

Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These open source products deliver simple routing and networking features, ...

Mac OS X has long included a basic firewall, but with the release of Mac OS X 10.5—also known as Leopard—this fundamental security technology is moving in a new and innovative direction. As with any ...

How we tested Check Point UTM-1 firewall. Fortunately, we were able to save and restore all our policy settings, though we did run into some rough spots discussed in the test article. We also used the ...

Even though gateways are integral to a network security strategy, they are often not utilized fully from a threat mitigation perspective. Businesses relying on basic gateway configuration are missing ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0 aces all basic personal firewall ...

Enterprise firewalls must have policies to control traffic, ability to create site-to-site VPNs using standards-based IPsec, translate addresses and port numbers (NAT) when needed, and apply basic ...

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 ...

There are two schools of thought when it comes to the software firewall built into OS X. One school says that it’s not necessary. Firewalls prevent unapproved connections from opening ports on a ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0 aces all basic personal firewall ...