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Firewall Rules Analysis
White Papers This paper proposes a method to analyze the firewall policy or rule-set using Relational Algebra and Raining 2D-Box Model. It can discover all the anomalies in the firewall rule-set in the format that is usually used by many firewall products such...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Firewall-fooling flaw exposed
Talkback as zonealarm says its not going to bother fixing this flaw for the free firewall it provides i think ill go find another free firewall provider! how incredibly stupid of them to say theyre not going to fix a flaw, just goes to show how little they...
[October 4, 2005, 17:41]
Firewall Analysis With Policy-Based Host Classification
White Papers For administrators of large systems, testing and debugging a firewall policy is a difficult process. The size and complexity of many firewall policies make manual inspection of the rule set tedious and error-prone.
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
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]
Firewall Facts: What It Can Do to Protect Your Computer
White Papers The whole point of a firewall is to completely isolate the computer from the Internet. Everything that passes in or out of the computer hits this wall to see if it can pass or needs to be blocked. The information that passes through a computer is...
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Firewall Policy Modeling, Analysis and Simulation: A Survey
White Papers This paper will try to survey research e orts in the area of formalization of firewall operational semantics and policy description languages and applications of such formal models and languages for firewall simulation, policy optimization...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Firewall market forecast to flare up
News The market for firewall software and devices will jump 25 percent in the next two years to nearly $2.5bn (£1.45bn) in worldwide sales, research firm Meta Group has predicted in its latest report. While almost every large and mid-sized business...
[December 3, 2003, 9:55]
Firewall-fooling flaw exposed
News Malicious code masquerading as a trusted application could trick a ZoneAlarm firewall into letting it connect to the Internet, security experts have warned. The issue affects the popular free ZoneAlarm firewall and default installations of version...
[October 3, 2005, 16:05]
Firewall management puts UK firms at risk
News The most common security risks relate to basic mistakes in firewall management and the configuration of VPN services, allowing the VPN to be located and profiled, according to Kevin Foster, strategy manager at NTA Monitor.
[June 2, 2003, 10:38]
Firewall not good enough
Member Review Big Microsoft advert in November PCW states enhanced firewall prevents programs from accessing the Internet as a default and will warn you if software attempts to do so. Not so on my machine (fails Leaktest), most reviews also confirm that XP SP2...
[October 4, 2004, 14:57]
Firewall failure plan checklist
White Papers Whether your firewall is hardware- or software-based it's a terrific target for experienced hackers and at some point it will fail. This comprehensive Firewall failure plan checklist contains two sections: a checklist of critical information to...
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
Firewall pioneer: Security needs integration
News To do it right someone would need to start a new company to build a firewall/IDS/VPN/host IDS/host integrity checker/antivirus system/encryption system/secure Web server from scratch -- all designed to work together under a common management...
[February 3, 2003, 13:34]
Firewall Product Testing
White Papers Testing for a wide array of hardware/software levels of the firewall has not only became a recommended procedure but also an essential part because of the sensitivity of the domain it addresses. Network firewalls are systems that enforce access...
[April 28, 2006, 1:00]
ICP Electronics Case Study: Firewall Solution Provider
White Papers They needed two firewall productions to meet SOHO and SMB enterprise needs within two months. The client had strong Software-design capability with limited manufacturing experience. After many discussions, ICP Electronics used their standard...
[December 4, 2007, 0:01]
Who's There? Firewall Advisor
Downloads View, understand and react to access attempts detected by your firewall Provides advice and helps you take action to combat access attempts Enhances the DoorStop X Firewall, Tiger's built-in firewall and others Available standalone or as part...
[November 4, 2007, 6:00]
F-Secure combines antivirus and firewall
News To combat the threat of "blended" virus attacks -- such as MSBlast -- security company F-Secure on Wednesday launched a combined firewall and anti-virus product. Jason Holloway, UK manager at F-Secure, said that instead of having just an anti-virus...
[September 4, 2003, 8:29]
Comparison of Firewall, Intrusion Prevention and Antivirus Technologies
White Papers For effective protection of computer networks, most organizations are deploying multiple layers of security, including firewall, intrusion prevention and gateway antivirus technologies. This paper looks at network security technologies that are...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Informatika Powers High-Security Access to Customer Data With a Linux Firewall on IBM eServer zSeries
White Papers As a solution the company implemented StoneGate Firewall V2.2.3 from Stonesoft Software, Inc.running on Linux in a z/VM partition on IBM eServer zSeries 900. Located in Maribor, Slovenia, Informatika is a specialist outsourcing company offering IT...
[April 24, 2007, 1:00]
Software tunnels through great Firewall of China
News The software lets PC users running Microsoft's Windows XP or 2000 operating systems set up a simple version of what's known as a circumvention Web server, or a computer that essentially digs a tunnel under a firewall set up by a government...
[April 16, 2003, 15:49]
Configuring the Juniper NetScreen Firewall Security Policies to Support Avaya IP Telephony - Issue 1.0
White Papers These Application Notes describe the configuration of the Juniper Networks NetScreen firewall to provide this added level of protection. Avaya Communication Manager and Media Gateways are security hardened network appliances with built in...
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
