A Firewall is a piece of hardware and/or software which functions in a networked environment to prevent some communications forbidden by the security policy, analogous to the function of firewalls in building construction. A firewall is also called a Border Protection Device (BPD), or packet filter in BSD contexts. A firewall has the basic task of controlling traffic between different zones of trust.
Webinar Published By: Lumension
Published Date: Jan 22, 2013
Keeping track of 10,000+ of anything is a management nightmare. With ongoing compliance and evolving attacks against vulnerable endpoint devices, getting a handle on managing endpoints becomes more important.
Webinar Published By: PC Mall
Published Date: Jun 22, 2011
This PC Mall webinar discusses the components of a borderless architecture and how technology is impacting network security as well as the benefits and how to of adopting a borderless network.
White Paper Published By: ESET, LLC.
Published Date: Apr 27, 2011
Global Threat Trends is a monthly report created by ESET that includes a review of the current events in the world of information security and the top ten threats of the month.
White Paper Published By: Kingston
Published Date: Feb 15, 2011
Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization
White Paper Published By: Focus
Published Date: Feb 09, 2011
Discover the primary vendor solutions and decision factors that must be considered when selecting a Unified Threat Management product to provide network defense.
White Paper Published By: TraceSecurity
Published Date: Sep 15, 2010
This paper defines the different types of penetration tests, explains why the tests should be performed, details their benefits and even provides guidance for choosing the right vendor.
White Paper Published By: Symantec.cloud
Published Date: Sep 01, 2010
This is the second part of a three-part white paper series. Part 2 describes how organizations can develop a security profile for themselves that will show them which of the Stage 1 controls they most need to build up and strengthen.
White Paper Published By: Athena Security
Published Date: Jan 28, 2010
SIEM solutions detect real attacks from the thousands of events that are happening in the network. When an unexpected and potentially dangerous event is recognized, engineers take a quick (temporary) action to block the security leak, diagnose what really went wrong, determine what else is at risk, and decide on a fix.
White Paper Published By: Athena Security
Published Date: Nov 20, 2009
This paper presents some techniques to cleaning up the rule base along with an effective solution that addresses these automatically for you using Athena FirePAC for Firewall Rule Cleanup.
