The latest Internet defense technology – deep packet inspection firewalls – is being touted as the best line of defense against worms that can sneak past earlier technology to wreak havoc in corporate ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is a critical component of an enterprise security infrastructure, providing a key security layer for web-facing applications and APIs. As web applications mature and ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is needed to protect web applications and APIs from cyber threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other malicious attacks. With cyberattacks on web ...

A hot new trend in firewalls is the application-layer firewall, sometimes called an application shield. Although the attack sequences we used in this roundup could be described as “application layer” ...

NetScreen Technologies later this year will improve its security products to help customers combat attacks disguised as innocuous traffic that might sneak by traditional firewalls. By incorporating ...

Learn how to keep your network secure without slowing it down or causing latency. Understand everything from unified threat management (UTM) and proxys to purchasing advice and firewall placement.

In the world of the Linux operating system and open source software, the iptables firewall provides a full featured and stable packet filtering infrastructure. Commercial-grade capabilities such as ...

In a business environment dominated by cloud computing, mobility and Web-based applications, enterprises need smarter, application-aware networks to ensure performance. But while application awareness ...

A firewall is software or hardware that sits between two networks -- typically, between your LAN and the Internet -- and allows some sorts of network traffic through while preventing others. It works ...

AI and cybersecurity have been inextricably linked for many years. The good guys use AI to analyze incoming data packets and help block malicious activity while the bad guys use AI to find and create ...