I frequently get asked if Microsoft's Windows Firewall is a good firewall. Here's my response: Windows Firewall works well as an inbound firewall, but it does not do outbound blocking. It's free with ...

One of the biggest challenges when it comes to operating today’s sophisticated data centers is the fact that they touch almost all aspects of an organization’s IT department and business processes.

Simone Margaritelli, the VP of Research at Zimperium, has created a Linux port of Little Snitch, a wildly popular macOS firewall application. Named OpenSnitch, the Linux port works on the same ...

Fresh faced startup Illumio is bringing a new twist on an old technique to create something simple and powerful. Take host-based firewalls--in Linux, Windows, containers--that already exist and ...

In a previous article, we talked about the importance of patch management in an enterprise network and the various options you have to deploy those patches in companies of various sizes. This week ...

COMMENTARY--Anyone who reads my column on a regular basis knows that I loathe to focus too much on new technology or products as an answer to security concerns. Even I recognize, however, the ...

3 tier architecture, multiple software stacks which should also have some segregation from each other. Data protection is important. In light of the above, what firewall approach would one take?

Host-based IDS software complements the capabilities of other security products such as network-based IDS, decoy-based IDS and firewalls. If the security threats of the past few weeks have taught us ...

News about viruses and ransomware seems to be a daily occurrence. In some cases systems are breached because of direct attacks on the system or through other means such as via email attachments or ...