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Use SLAs In A Web Services Context, Part 5: Firewall Web Services With A SLA Guarantee - Multi-Level Firewalls In SOA
White Papers This paper explains how one can centralize the firewall administration to better control and monitor firewalls for multiple Web services and the associated services and applications in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
Unverified Fields - A Problem With Firewalls & Firewall Technology Today
White Papers Certain firewalls today, will not authenticate the validity of certain protocol fields, within the packet they are processing. Mainly it will be unique patterns of behavior produced by the probed machines answering our crafted queries (or other...
[December 8, 2003, 21:46]
Personal Firewalls: Firewall Protection For PCs And Home Networks
White Papers As a result, firewall protection from these attacks is becoming as important as antivirus protection. With this access, a hacker can browse the hard drive and add or delete files, discover passwords and credit card numbers, and set the system up to...
[November 22, 2003, 6:16]
Human Firewalls Are A Must, Says Mitnick
News The founder of Mitnick Security Consulting (formerly known as Defensive Thinking) also called on companies to properly educate their workforce and strengthen their so-called "human firewall". At a social engineering prevention workshop in Sydney...
[April 14, 2005, 10:15]
Cooking With Linux: A Few Recipes For Easier Firewalls
White Papers A good firewall, then, is an excellent beginning. Security, as you know, is very serious business indeed. Every day, we hear of damage caused by viruses, of new exploits through which crackers compromise systems.
[January 16, 2004, 4:29]
Firewall Market Forecast To Flare Up
News Firewalls -- software that keeps out unwanted intruders -- are a mainstay of corporate security. I see a lot more customers intent on using firewalls in a lot more places, like between business units," he said.
[December 3, 2003, 9:55]
Evolving Firewalls
News Information security experts believe that packet filtering firewalls offer the least security because they allow a direct connection between endpoints through the firewall. Many information security experts believe proxy firewalls offer the highest...
[August 13, 2002, 12:52]
A New Architecture For Conflict-Free Firewall Policy Provisioning
White Papers A network may have multiple firewalls - one at the organizational level and another at each of the departmental levels, with each firewall working in accordance with the global organizational security policy.
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Handling Firewalls
News In the process of filtering Internet traffic, all firewalls have some type of logging feature that documents how the firewall handled various types of traffic. The attacker may not gain access to the system (most firewalls fail to a closed position...
[May 29, 2002, 21:14]
VisNetic Firewall
Downloads VisNetic Firewall is more secure than application-based personal firewalls, yet less expensive than high-end firewalls, providing peace-of-mind through comprehensive intrusion protection. VisNetic Firewall is a stateful packet level firewall...
[August 11, 2007, 3:31]
Multilayer Firewall Strategy
News Whether you want to improve, replace, or initially install a firewall, it's a good time to refresh your knowledge of firewalls and understand the vital steps, such as developing a security policy, that you must take before making any more security...
[February 14, 2003, 20:07]
FirePlotter
Downloads FirePlotter supports all Cisco PIX/ASA Firewalls and FortiNet FortiGate Firewalls. FirePlotter is a real-time session monitor or connection monitor for your Cisco or FortiNet firewall. Unlicensed product (Watch only mode) provides a great overview...
[June 22, 2007, 17:31]
General Firewall White Paper
White Papers This white paper talks about defensive strategies to be applied while implementing firewalls, how to classify firewalls, screening router (Packet Filters), proxy server gateways, inspection techniques and firewall policies.
[September 16, 2007, 22:35]
Windows XP Service Pack 2: A First Look
Talkback I've been using a mixture of hardware and software firewalls and anti-virus protection since the early 90's and have worked on security projects. One of the biggest problems I've seen with the personal firewalls is that they tend to restrict...
[March 25, 2004, 7:19]
Firewalls - Back To Basics
News For a specific question, you can check the Internet Firewalls FAQ but remember that many security problems are caused by half-understood or undocumented changes to a firewall's rule set. Do all firewalls work in the same way?
[October 9, 2002, 8:54]
An NSIS-Based Approach For Firewall Traversal In Mobile IPv6 Networks
White Papers This paper describes the problems and impacts of having firewalls in Mobile IPv6 environments and presents a firewall traversal solution based on the IETF's Next Steps in Signaling framework to address these issues.
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
A Dynamic Stateful Multicast Firewall
White Papers Inspired by the "Stateful" operation of unicast firewalls, multicast firewall blocks unsolicited multicast packets by maintaining state information on multicast group membership and unicast interactions.
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Out With The Old, Bring In The New -- Firewalls?
News While this new breed of firewall must be implemented along with -- and not replace -- traditional network firewalls, InfoWorld has reported that the battle is on between traditional firewall players and a new breed of XML-application firewall...
[January 28, 2003, 10:47]
Usability And Security Of Personal Firewalls
White Papers This paper assesses effective security of 13 personal firewalls by comparing possible granularity of rules as well as the usability of rule set-up and its influence on security. In order to evaluate the firewalls' security, the created rules are...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Windows XP SP2 More Secure? Not So Fast
Talkback Until you "EXPERTS" do a sensible reply, readers go and have aread at www.grc.com about firewalls and you can also check it is working there, Also go to www.sygate.com as you can also do a scan there to see if your firewall is working.
[August 25, 2004, 13:22]
