Firewalls are computers dedicated to filtering particular kinds of network traffic between two networks. They are usually employed to protect a LAN from the rest of the Internet. Securing every box on ...

Many organizations don't turn on logging in their firewalls because of misconceived concerns about adverse performance. Don't let that be you. The firewall is a barrier between your organization and ...

Managing firewall rules has proven to be a complex, error-prone, expensive, and inefficient for many large-networked organizations, according to a new research. A firewall is the safety barrier ...

My network at home is behind a Netgear router/NAT as is common these days. On one of the PC's I turned on the Windows firewall log and I visited a few websites and it reports to me that it blocked a ...

I'm looking for some free (preferable) or relatively cheap software that will do some log analysis on an SG580 firewall. I've got the logs streaming to a syslog server, but the raw data isn't any fun ...

This chapter looks at the management of firewalls. From the perspective of the small office/home user, the firewall is a single device that protects the home network from malicious traffic—it keeps ...