A software firewall is a standard tool for protecting computers from viruses and other malware. Some routers -- the device that carries packets of data between your network and the Internet -- offer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Such a solution was often called a plain-packet filtering router. For the most part, dedicated packet-filtering firewalls are no longer used. Instead, access control lists (ACLs) can be configured on ...

When you hear of the term firewall, you might believe there is only a single type, but that is not the case. There are different types of firewalls, and luckily for you, this is something we aim to ...

Following are the different methods used to provide firewall protection, and several of them are often used in combination. See firewall. Allows one IP address, which is shown to the outside world, to ...

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 ...

One of the most useful tools in firewall engineering today is the DMZ, or DeMilitarized Zone, a network where all publicly accessible services are placed so they can be more closely watched and, also, ...

The humble firewall has come a long way since the packet-filtering days of yore. The first firewalls were developed by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) back in the late 1980s. These early ...

I'v got a relatively new ASUS n56u router. I turned on logging of dropped packets the other day and notice that a couple times a minute there are dropped packets being logged from IP addresses I don't ...