As security threats become more and more advanced, managing your firewall configurations has never been more important. IT professionals spend much of their time worrying about flaws and ...

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 ...

Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of ...

Among the many firewalls available in the security market are router firewalls. Unlike the software firewall, the router firewall attempts and blocks incoming query requests at the server level ...

iptables is the user-space tool for configuring firewall rules in the Linux kernel. It is actually a part of the larger netfilter framework. Perhaps because iptables is the most visible part of the ...

Why would anyone need firewall audit software? If you're already jugging hundreds of rules on multiple firewalls, here's what these tools can do for you. Firewall audit tools automate the otherwise ...

SonicWall has confirmed that an unauthorized actor has accessed firewall configuration backup files for all customers who have used its cloud backup service. The accessed backup files contain ...

SonicWall warned customers today to reset credentials after their firewall configuration backup files were exposed in a security breach that impacted MySonicWall accounts. After detecting the incident ...

A data breach against SonicWall's cloud backup service first disclosed last month is far worse than initially thought. On Sept. 17, network security vendor SonicWall disclosed what it described as a ...

SonicWall's investigation into the September security breach that exposed customers' firewall configuration backup files concludes that state-sponsored hackers were behind the attack. The network ...