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 ...

Every security team has at least one staff member spending time updating software, monitoring logs and tweaking rule settings for on-premise firewalls in order to continually manage risk by balancing ...

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. announced that its Quantum Firewall Software R82 has achieved Common Criteria EAL4+ certification, reinforcing its credibility as a security solution for ...

Poorly managed firewall rules can lead to security disasters. Here, security managers in the IT Central Station community review the top firewall management suites: Tufin, AlgoSec, FireMon and RedSeal ...

Mike Chapple is associate 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 ...

Altor Networks has rewritten its firewall for virtual machines so the software plugs directly into VMware hypervisors, boosting the performance of the firewall by a factor of 10, the company says.

Enterprise firewalls have been the quintessential security device for decades, standing guard at the perimeter, inspecting all inbound and outbound traffic for malware. So, what happens to firewalls ...

ABOUT A DECADE AGO, I learned the hard way why protecting the desktop is one of the most difficult tasks. A virus infection came into our shop through an outside contractor, and it spread everywhere.

Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. Finding a firewall that can take on many functions streamlines management and reduces costs for the Albert Gallatin Area School ...