Enterprise firewalls must have policies to control traffic, ability to create site-to-site VPNs using standards-based IPsec, translate addresses and port numbers (NAT) when needed, and apply basic ...

Check Point FireWall-1 is the 800-pound gorilla of the commercial firewall industry. Check Point Software Technologies has ported its popular, sophisticated and relatively easy-to-administer firewall ...

Barracuda expanded its NextGen Firewall product family with the new Barracuda NextGen Firewall S-Series, which is designed to empower customers to securely connect thousands of machine endpoints, ...

Lucent Technologies announced two additions to its VPN Firewall portfolio, the VPN Firewall Brick 700 and the VPN Firewall Brick 1200 for large enterprises and service providers. Leveraging Bell Labs ...

Is a firewall designed to catch spam, phishing emails etc., or is that the sole responsibility of a spam-filtering solution? I know with so-called UTM's the line between spam filter and firewall is ...

Two months ago, we published Everything you need to know about IPv6, telling you the following about firewalling IPv6 in relationship to the Network Address Translation that is common in today's IPv4 ...

For businesses large and small, firewalls mean more than network security, they also mean unknown amounts of network downtime during configuration and loads of extra expense for consultants and ...

This newsletter has pointed out in the past that makers of firewall/VPN appliances have started adding other security functions to their boxes – see Multi-function vs. single function devices: Which ...