Eliminating unused firewall rules can help improve network performance Journey of a firewall policy rule As all firewall managers know, creating firewall policies can be long and tortuous, with not ...

January 14, 2009, Lisle IL, Athena Security, the leader in sophisticated yet affordable products for reducing the cost to manage and understand complex firewalls, announced today the general ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that school districts rely on ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that organizations rely on to protect ...

Firewalls can be difficult to manage. Often times rules lack granularity due to a lack of understanding of the application traffic or trying to keep up with the speed of business. Firewalls get more ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Does your firewall rulebase remind you of that drawer in your kitchen where you throw all ...

Last month we used Firewall Builder to create a set of reusable objects for iptables policies. In this month's column, I show you how to use Firewall Builder to create two such rule sets: one for a ...