The results of our soon-to-be-published Advanced Cloud Firewall (ACFW) test are hard to ignore. Some vendors are failing badly at the basics like SQL injection, command injection, Server-Side Request ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of a Basic edition of the Azure Firewall service, which is available at the preview stage. Azure Firewall is Microsoft's "stateful firewall as a service," ...

Microsoft this week announced that Azure Firewall Basic is now at the "general availability" commercial-release stage. Azure Firewall Basic is a new product aimed at small-to-medium (SMB) ...

With the whole of the networking worldmoving toward inhabiting a single global village, we inevitablyhave to start thinking about locking our doors and bolting ourwindows. It has to be recognized that ...

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The ufw (uncomplicated firewall) represents a serious simplification to iptables and, in the years that it’s been available, has become the default firewall on systems such as Ubuntu and Debian. And, ...

When I first started using Linux, back in '97, working with the built-in firewall was not something just anyone could do. In fact, it was quite complicated. Starting around 1998, if you want to manage ...

No doubt, you’ve heard the term “firewall” in regard to computing, but do you know what it is? When it comes to security, we should all be educated consumers, so this is an introduction to the basic ...

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 ...

Few businesses would choose to operate without a series of locks, alarms and security cameras to protect their premises and inventory from intrusions and theft. Protecting your computer systems is ...