Understanding the stateful firewall vs stateless firewall distinction will help you decide on the best strategy for protecting your network. A stateful firewall keeps track of the state of network ...

Security continues to be the biggest concern for IT managers and, in turn, design engineers developing firewall systems. With more viruses popping up and hackers attacking more often, corporations are ...

Stateful firewalls, like the PIX sound pretty impressive, and they are but they are not without their drawbacks as well. They do offer speed and transparency but remember, a packet has to make its way ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Firewalls have historically formed the ...

NetActuate, a global provider of edge infrastructure and Anycast network solutions across 45+ markets worldwide, today ...

A stateless firewall is an efficient, low-maintenance way to screen lots of network traffic quickly — but there are a few important drawbacks. In networking, “state” refers to the context or session ...

When deciding on a firewall implementation, most Unix-savvy administrators have usually chosen to use ipfilter on OpenBSD for their combination of capabilities and stability, as the capabilities of ...

Many people anticipated that enterprise organizations would adopt Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies later than service providers or multi-tenant data centers and cloud service providers. We ...

British banks are wasting thousands of pounds on firewalls that are not doing their job, according to network security pioneer Nir Zuk. Zuk, who is widely credited with co-developing the stateful ...

In a marketing world that sees words and phrases like "new," "improved," and "next-generation" thrown around like New Year's confetti, is the "next-gen firewall" label meaningful or just more ...