traffic such as firewalls
Firewall Load Balancing With Serveriron
White Paper Scaling a secure network at such an explosive rate makes it necessary to deploy multiple firewalls for scalability and availability. Foundry's ServerIron firewall load balancing capability simplifies the deployment and management of multiple... [10 Jul 2008]
Hardware Assisted Packet Filtering Firewall
White Paper This paper presents an overview of existing packet classification schemes, with particular attention to the ones that deal with classification based on multiple fields, are suitable for firewalls, and have possibility of efficient implementation... [10 Jul 2008]
Blocking Instant Messaging and Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Applications With Cisco IOS Software Release 12.3(14)T
White Paper Furthermore, some P2P networks can act as a conduit for malicious software such as worms, offering an easy path around firewalls into an organization to compromise desktop computing resources. This paper offers some sample configurations to use... [02 Jul 2008]
Maximizing Firewall Availability: Techniques on Improving Resilience to Session Table DoS Attacks
White Paper Modern day firewalls are expected to withstand ever increasing amounts of traffic loads while providing higher resilience and lower latency. As firewall filtering technologies have improved, so have some techniques used to exploit them. [30 Jun 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Deploying ISA Server 2004 to Protect Internal Network Segments From RPC-Based Attacks (Level 300)
White Paper This webcast outlines best practice ISA Server architecture and real-world deployment scenarios, and details how to successfully deploy ISA servers as internal firewalls in the organization. This webcast describes how deploying an application layer... [01 May 2008]
An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol
White Paper Skype claims that it can work almost seamlessly across NATs and firewalls and has better voice quality than the MSN and Yahoo IM applications. Analysis is performed by careful study of Skype network traffic. [26 Apr 2008]
Specifications of a High-Level Conflict-Free Firewall Policy Language for Multi-Domain Networks
White Paper Multiple firewalls typically cooperate to provide security properties for a network, despite the fact that these firewalls are often spatially distributed and configured in isolation. FLIP guarantees that the rules generated will be conflict-free... [11 Apr 2008]
Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit
News A major threat is browser scripting attacks, which use web browsers to get through corporate firewalls, allowing access to confidential information. Website attacks, which plant browser exploits to compromise users, are also becoming more a problem... [09 Apr 2008]
Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying SSTP Remote Access
White Paper Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is a new form of VPN tunnel with features that allow traffic to pass through firewalls that block PPTP and L2TP/IPsec traffic. SSTP provides a mechanism to encapsulate PPP traffic over the SSL channel of the... [28 Mar 2008]
High Performance Network Security
White Paper Unlike traditional devices like firewalls which examine packet headers alone, an IPS examines the entire packet - called deep packet inspection - and is capable of detecting and blocking application level attacks such as the Blaster worm that... [07 Feb 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Windows Firewall With Advanced Security (Level 200)
White Paper This webcast take a look at features of firewalls in general and specifically the firewall included with Windows operating systems. This webcast discuss ways to configure exceptions for better control over incoming and outgoing traffic. [14 Jan 2008]
On the Design and Use of Internet Sinks for Network Abuse Monitoring
White Paper In contrast to traditional intrusion detection systems or firewalls, iSink includes an active component that generates response packets to incoming traffic. The paper describes the architecture and implementation of the Internet Sink (iSink) system... [08 Jan 2008]
Protecting Mobile Devices From TCP Flooding Attacks
White Paper Network firewalls have played a crucial role in reducing unwanted traffic by blocking unsolicited incoming data. In wireline networks, this problem can partially be solved by opening dedicated pinholes in the network firewalls to allow unsolicited... [20 Dec 2007]
Application Switching: Scaling Next-Generation Networks
White Paper In turn, application (Layer 4-7) switching has emerged to manage, route, and load balance traffic across data center devices including application servers, firewalls, caches, and gateways. In addition to connectivity and packet routing services... [16 Sep 2007]
Building a Strong Foundation for SIP-Based Networks Using F5 Networks' BIG-IP Traffic Manager
White Paper Deploying a SIP-based infrastructure using F5's BIG-IP product, along with smart routing engines; security components including edge proxy, firewall control proxy and media-enabled firewalls, helps ensure a truly extensible network - one that can... [26 Jul 2007]
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