Network appliances don't always offer all the firewalling features a user needs -- you know, the advanced port blocking and security procedures we'd like to keep our little home network fiefdoms ...

Your desktop firewall may not offer enough protection. There are various options available to increase your security. Two of these options are free, while the other has an associated cost. The ...

I would like to revisit my question from earlier last week, when I asked if it would be possible to have a PC acting as a firewall filter specific ports on specific IP addresses, without resorting to ...

What Does a Firewall Do To Protect My Home Network Your email has been sent Understanding what firewalls do (and don't do) takes just a few minutes. Learn what a firewall does to keep intruders out in ...

Mike Chapple is a 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 protect ...

This week Tipping Point is introducing a multi-function security box for smaller sites that includes as part of its features a firewall and VPN. As noted in the last newsletter, this firewall/VPN mix ...

If your computer won't connect to your network, diagnosing the precise problem can be difficult. Any number of factors, including the computer's own security measures, may be the culprit. An obtrusive ...

As a follow-up to Network World’s previous rounds of baseline Unified Threat Management testing, we conducted a second high-speed test of only the firewalls shipping within the UTM boxes. These ...

Network firewalls are as relevant to information security today as they were 20 years ago, according to industry pioneer Gil Shwed, co-founder and chief executive of security software firm Check Point ...