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Evaluation of the Direct Packet STNS Firewall Traversal Solution
White Papers Traditionally, the majority of videoconferencing sessions were conducted internally, involving primarily internally-deployed conferencing systems. However, the enhanced reliability and performance of IP-based videoconferencing has generated...
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
Linux MPS Firewall Supplement
White Papers A firewall evaluates each data packet and determines whether or not to pass the packet to one's account. A firewall monitors and controls the traffic coming into and out of the account. A firewall prevents the account from receiving an overwhelming...
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
Airscanner Mobile Firewall
Downloads ***Winner of the 2005 Best Software Award for Security by Pocket PC Magazine's Board of Experts***Protect your Pocket PC from the latest Windows CE exploits, viruses and TrojansAirscanner Mobile Firewall for Windows Mobile Pocket PC is a low...
[September 10, 2004, 8:00]
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. Thus, a vulnerability in a protocol that could slip by a packet filter or...
[August 13, 2002, 12:52]
Firewalk X
Downloads Features:Independent; does not rely on or use Mac OS X's built-in firewall, ipfwTCP, UDP, and ICMP packet filtering, both incoming and outgoingSelf optimizes to current network activityInteractive, real-time alertingTime expiring firewall...
[September 27, 2004, 8:00]
Firewall Queries
White Papers The function of a firewall is to examine each incoming and outgoing packet and decide whether to accept or to discard the packet based on a sequence of rules. Because a firewall may have a large number of rules and the rules often conflict...
[August 28, 2009, 1:24]
Designing a Hardware-Accelerated Firewall With Two 10 Gbps Ports
White Papers The firewall is designed to process data at full speed, without any packet loss. High-speed packet filtering should be one of the first steps in securing any modern computer network. This paper describes the design of a two-port firewall for 10...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Are Commercial Firewalls Ready for IP Version 6?
White Papers The paper finds the limited support for IPv6 stateful packet inspection across the commercial firewall product sector quite worrisome. Many vendors extend stateful packet inspection techniques to provide additional application-level protection...
[November 5, 2008, 0:01]
Airscanner Security Combo for WM5/WM6
Downloads Fast, optimized scanning speed based on patent pending technology.Real-time background virus scanning.Firewall DescriptionAirscanner Mobile Firewall for Windows Mobile Pocket PC is a low-level, bi-directional, packet filtering firewall that...
[September 23, 2008, 8:00]
Attack Prevention Technology White Paper
White Papers It includes the attack prevention function allows a firewall to detect network attacks including Denial of Service (DoS), scanning and snooping, and malformed packet attacks. The attack prevention measures include blacklist filtering, packet attack...
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
Windows XP: Internet and networking review
Reviews It has a fairly simple-minded packet filtering firewall that blocks port scans and hides printer and file sharing. Windows XP includes a fairly simple-minded packet filtering firewall that blocks port scans and hides printer and file sharing.
[October 30, 2001, 15:24]
Firewalls failing to protect banks, says security expert
News In other words, a stateful firewall analyses each packet in context, not in isolation. Intrusion detection and prevention technologies, which allow systems to examine each packet for malware, are also used.
[October 9, 2009, 8:13]
Academic breaks the Great Firewall of China
News The IDS uses a stateless server, which examines each data packet both going in and out of the firewall individually, unrelated to any previous request. By forging the source address of a packet containing a "sensitive" keyword, people could trigger...
[July 3, 2006, 13:00]
Systematic Structural Testing of Firewall Policies
White Papers To achieve high structural coverage effectively, three automated packet generation techniques are developed: the random packet generation, the one based on local constraint solving, and the most sophisticated one based on global constraint solving.
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
Check Point, Nokia team up for security
News The market is evolving from large-packet traffic to small-packet traffic and from long-term connections to short-term connections," said MacDonald. Firewall maker Check Point Software and communications giant Nokia have expanded their alliance and...
[December 13, 2001, 9:42]
Nortel and Symantec prepare network security product
News This began last December when the two companies started working on a "prototype security engine" which used deep packet inspection to identify viruses and other malicious code. Deep packet inspection looks at all of the data within packets entering...
[September 20, 2005, 18:00]
Defend your network against idle scanning
News The attacker will then send a SYN (synchronisation) request packet to the port of his or her target with a source IP of the public host. If the port is open, the target will send a SYN|ACK packet to the public host.
[September 30, 2005, 16:55]
Win a D-Link wireless networking bundle review
Reviews The router provides firewall security using Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) and hacker attack logging for Denial of Service (Dos) attack protection. SPI inspects the contents of all incoming packet headers before deciding which packets are allowed...
[December 27, 2006, 8:48]
Firewall vendor lays down UK roots
News The first-generation firewalls were router or packet filter based; that is now inadequate," Hembrough said. The US company will operate out of Reading, Berkshire, providing on-site support for its reseller channel on the Eagle family of firewall...
[July 26, 1996, 15:42]
Firewall pioneer: Security needs integration
News What's sad to me is that firewalls could almost be enough except that the vision of firewall designers ended with "fast packet inspection" and never went further. To do it right someone would need to start a new company to build a firewall/IDS/VPN...
[February 3, 2003, 13:34]
