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whitepaper The webcast outlines how Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows XP Embedded provides a multilayered security approach that includes an application-centric firewall, application control, intrusion prevention and detection, antivirus and policy...
[18 May 2008]
whitepaper To police network traffic, firewalls must be configured with a set of filtering rules. The existence of errors in this set is very likely to degrade the network security policy. The management of these configuration errors is a serious and complex...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security policy, in a sequential manner. Unfortunately packet filtering in this fashion can result in significant traffic delays, which is problematic for...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security policy, in a sequential manner. Unfortunately packet filtering in this fashion can result in significant traffic delays, which is problematic for...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper presents a framework for automatic testing of the firewall policy enforcement or implementation using efficient random traffic and policy generation techniques. Generating random traffic to test the functionality of firewall matching is...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper It show that naive deployment approaches can easily create a temporary security hole by permitting illegal traffic, or interrupt service by rejecting legal traffic during the deployment. Firewall policy management is challenging and error-prone.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper propose a novel firewall testing technique using policy-based segmentation of the traffic address space, which can intelligently adapt the test traffic generation to target potential erroneous regions in the firewall input space.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper A firewall policy error either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not tragic...
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper These firewall rules are mostly custom-designed and hand-written thus in constant need for tuning and validation, due to the dynamic nature of the traffic characteristics, ever-changing network environment and its market demands.
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper An error in a firewall policy either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not...
[04 May 2008]
whitepaper A firewall policy error either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not tragic...
[03 May 2008]
whitepaper Whenever domains intersect, there is a potential need for security to control traffic allowed into the network. Firewall technology can be used to filter this traffic. A network security domain is a contiguous region of a network that operates...
[03 May 2008]
whitepaper Firewalls protect a trusted network from an untrusted network by filtering traffic according to a specified security policy. A diverse set of firewalls is being used today. As it is infeasible to examine and test each firewall for all possible...
[24 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This webcast, presented by McAfee, explains the security issues that pose a threat to the messaging and Internet traffic, and the options available to filter the valuable information, help optimize resources, increase productivity and prevent...
[12 Apr 2008]
News Nicholas Bohm, the FIPR's general counsel, said last week "the illegality stems… from the fact that the system intercepts internet traffic". The Home Office] gave an opinion, not a legal opinion, of their understanding of how the law was [to be...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This proposes FLIP, a high-level firewall configuration policy language for traffic access control, to enforce security and ensure seamless configuration management. Multiple firewalls typically cooperate to provide security properties for a...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper VPN-1 Pro ensures the security of all VPN traffic and gives UMHS one central point of control. VPN-1 Pro also provides easy One-Click VPN deployment and security management architecture (SMART), which enables all elements of a security policy to be...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This guide is intended to cover only local computer IPSec policy that uses IPSec transport (not tunneling) to secure traffic between a source computer and a destination computer. It does not cover using Group Policy in the Active Directory to...
[24 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Although IPS and IDS both examine traffic looking for attacks, there are critical differences. IPS and IDS both detect malicious or unwanted traffic. But an IPS is an in-line device designed for automatic enforcement of network policy, whereas an...
[28 Feb 2008]
whitepaper To effectively address these concerns, organizations must reduce the volume of illegitimate traffic at the gateway, manage legitimate messages, and integrate efforts with a variety of new systems, processes and workflows.
[12 Dec 2007]
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