computers a "firewall
FireViz: A Personal Firewall Visualizing Tool
White Paper The primary goal of FireViz is to educate typical computer users of the security threats their computers are exposed to when connected to a network and expose any potential loop holes in the firewall's security policies. [10 Jul 2008]
Cisco's PIX Firewall Series and Stateful Firewall Security
White Paper Routers use packet-filtering technology and Access Control Lists (ACLs) to restrict access to particular computers and networks. With the spectacular growth of the Internet and online access, companies that do business on the Internet face greater... [06 Jul 2008]
NAC at the endpoint: Control your network through device compliance
White Paper Protecting IT networks used to be a straightforward case of encircling computers and servers with a firewall and ensuring that all traffic passed through just one gateway. However, the increase in mobile workers, numbers and type of device and the... [30 Jun 2008]
White Paper: Indestructible Firewall in a Box V1.0
White Paper In this paper, the procedure for creating an embedded firewall whose root filesystem is loaded from a flash disk and then executed from a RAMdisk will be illustrated. The type of firewall illustrated herein is a simple packet-filtering... [30 Jun 2008]
ISA Server 2004 Quick Start Guide: Install and Configure ISA Server 2004 for Secure Internet Access
White Paper In addition to the robust security ISA Server 2004 provides for the network, the firewall software also allows connecting all the computers to the Internet. The ISA Server 2004 firewall software has a wide range of capabilities and its feature set... [30 Jun 2008]
PC security warning for banking online
News Section 12.9 of the Banking Code offers advice about how to protect your online banking activities including keeping your PC secure - through up-to-date antivirus and spyware software along with a personal firewall. [16 Jun 2008]
The Virtual Firewall
White Paper The trend towards portable computing means that the traditional security perimeter architecture (where a firewall protects computers in the LAN by controlling access to the outside world) is rapidly becoming obsolete. [31 May 2008]
Intrusion Defense Firewall
White Paper Mobile computers that connect directly to the Internet outside of a company's firewall can introduce risk into the corporate network and thus require a higher level of security to protect against network intrusions. [31 May 2008]
A Firewall Network System for Worm Defense in Enterprise Networks
White Paper The central idea of a traditional "firewall" is to constrain service requests from the Internet to a local network. Based on the "defense-in-depth" principle, the paper presents a "Firewall Network System" for worm defense in enterprise networks... [24 Apr 2008]
Firewall Queries
White Paper An example of a firewall query is "Which computers in the private network can receive packets from a known malicious host in the outside Internet? The function of a firewall is to examine each incoming and outgoing packet and decide whether to... [16 Apr 2008]
Emulating an Embedded Firewall
White Paper The Adventium Labs Embedded Distributed Firewall provides a simple interface for securely managing approved network flows between computers on a network. This paper describes the emulation of the Adventium Labs distributed embedded firewall, using... [11 Apr 2008]
Easy-to-Use Firewall Management for Home Users
White Paper This paper identifies usability challenges presented by internetworking multiple homes, with a special focus on, home network firewall management. However, in order to truly provide security for the home network, the management of the firewall... [11 Apr 2008]
WLAN Security - Why Your Firewall, VPN, and IEEE 802.11i Aren't Enough to Protect Your Network
White Paper It is anticipated that majority of the laptops and notebook computers will have embedded WLAN capability. Wireless Local Area Networks based on the IEEE 802.11 standard (also called 'Wi-Fi', and referred to as 'WLAN' in this paper) have... [11 Apr 2008]
eConceal: The Futuristic Firewall
White Paper Firewall software provides stealth capability to the computer on the network, hiding it from hackers who scour the Internet looking for vulnerable computers that they can gain access to.eConceal Firewall is a comprehensive software firewall... [11 Mar 2008]
Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet
News More worrying, during a second attack the botnet blocked attempts by the websites to stop them using a port firewall while continuing sending out data to carry on the attack. Attackers disguised the build up of traffic from up to 30,000 PC and... [06 Mar 2008]
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