FRAMINGHAM — The conventional firewall sits between the trusted (internal) and the untrusted (Internet) networks, where it filters inbound and outbound traffic to provide safe access to and from the ...

I’ve recently had the opportunity to listen in on a couple of debates regarding firewalls and their utility, as well as their future in the corporate and educational environment. Now there are two ...

ZDNET's key takeaways 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 ...

According to ICT Results, researchers for a EU-funded project named WISDOM are developing an optical firewall which aims to clear Internet security bottlenecks. WISDOM is an acronym for 'Wirespeed ...

Firewalls were born in the 1990s, alongside Windows 95 and Internet Explorer. They've been a staple of network security since, which prompts the question: Are firewalls still relevant? The determining ...

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced Secure Firewall 3100 Series, a midrange multipurpose firewall appliance with a new architecture designed expressly with hybrid work in mind. Secure Firewall 3100 ...

Microsoft Corp. has touted Windows Vista as providing significant security improvements over Windows XP, and it offers the Windows Firewall, with its new two-way filtering feature, as one example of ...

A few weeks back, after the Working Mac column about scanning your Mac for viruses I received an email message from Yolanda: Hope you can help your readers with something that I haven’t found. I’ve ...