So what’s firewall as a service? Firewall as a service, or FWaaS, relies on technology in the cloud. A user or application connects to the FWaaS via the internet, and the service applies domain rules, ...

Question: What does a firewall do and is it something I need to get? Answer: In the early days of the internet, we often connected through a dial-up modem or some other form of direct connection. When ...

According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, it takes 280 days to discover and control a typical hack, during which significant damage can occur. Keeping our digital possessions and smaller ...

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Traditional firewalls can’t stop modern DDoS attacks. Learn why high-volume, multi-layer attacks overwhelm perimeter defenses—and how to build real DDoS resilience.

A firewall is a device that protects you from a possibly hostile network by monitoring and restricting TCP/IP communications based on the policies that you set. The device is traditionally dedicated ...

Touted as "the open source firewall," you'd expect T.REX Firewall to be completely open source. But for the latest release of the product (version 2), no source is available. The firewall itself is a ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. As state and local governments adopt cloud resources, they need to ...

Other things have changed, too. Today, standalone firewall products are more the exception than the rule. I took a look at five major firewalls on the market today, and almost everything that came my ...

As the federal government works to improve its customer experience, it’s discovering the challenges that come with complex, always-on environments. Agencies are building complicated hybrid ...

A few weeks back, after the Working Mac column about scanning your Mac for viruses I received an email message from Yolanda: Hope you can help your readers with something that I haven’t found. I’ve ...