Citing an increase in attacks that take advantage of holes in existing firewall technology, NetScreen Technologies Inc. said on Monday that it will release new “deep packet inspection” features across ...

With cybercrime taking the enterprise ecosystem by storm, the issue of securing a network infrastructure along with restricting employee access to unwanted internet resources is a top-of-mind priority ...

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 ...

Our Special Focus author (tgreene@nww.com) this week takes a look at the world of deep packet inspection. First there were packet filters. Then stateful inspection firewalls; then intrusion detection.

While the market needs to mature, Chenxi Wang says deep packet inspection can provide much more than just security benefits Deep packet inspection (DPI) is a technique that has seen success in traffic ...

The appearance of devices implementing Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Unified Threat Management (UTM) technologies at the network edge over the last five years is not the first time network ...

Imagine a device that sits inline in a major ISP's network and can throttle P2P traffic at differing levels depending on the time of day. Imagine a device that allows one user access only to e-mail ...

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 ...