Four basic types of firewall protection exist--network level, circuit level, application-level and stateful multilayer. Each type has advantages and disadvantages, ranging from ease of implementation ...

You may think cyberattacks only happen to big companies like Target, but small businesses are vulnerable due to their limited resources and security. If you want to take steps to keep your business ...

Understanding firewalls and the role they play in Industrial Internet of Things applications is key to ensuring network security and resiliency. With the implementation of the Industrial Internet of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Network security is the practice of preventing and protecting against unauthorized intrusion into corporate networks. As a philosophy, it complements endpoint security, which focuses on individual ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Campus networks carry almost every type of network traffic imaginable. Faculty and staff computers ...

The Linux kernel includes some of the most powerful and flexible firewall code in any general-purpose operating system. This code is called Netfilter, though most of us refer to it by the name of its ...