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iPhone, iPad become apple of cyber criminals' eye
Apple devices -- ever more popular in the workplace -- are about to become more popular with cyber criminals.
Thwarted by security at enterprises, cyber criminals target SMBs
Big business -- at least a significant percentage of it -- has apparently heeded the decades-long mantra from information security experts, and...
Public vs. private cyberattack responsibility debate heats up
Should the federal government combine legislative muscle with fear to pressure private enterprise leaders into funding defenses for a cyberwar? Or...
Next-gen firewalls: Off to a good start
When we tested four next-gen firewalls strictly on performance, we found that the products could forward packets at impressive rates, but throughput...
Next-gen firewalls require external visibility tools
Knowing what's happening on your network is a pre-requisite to controlling the traffic. We call that visibility because it combines all of the...
Palo Alto next-gen firewall stacks up well
Palo Alto Networks has bet everything on being a next-generation firewall. Without the next-generation hook, Palo Alto has little chance at breaking...
SonicWall stands tall in SSL decryption testing
If one of the main advantages of a next-generation firewall is application and protocol identification and control, then SSL decryption is a basic...
Check Point takes best approach to URL filtering
URL filtering has become a "checkbox" feature on most Unified Threat Management firewalls, and no wonder: it doesn't require a lot of imagination to...
Basic firewall functionality: Check Point's maturity shows through
Enterprise firewalls must have policies to control traffic, ability to create site-to-site VPNs using standards-based IPsec, translate addresses and...
How we tested next-generation firewalls
We tested next generation firewalls by looking at seven separate areas that we felt would be important to network managers trying to deploy these...
Fortinet has highest catch rate in IPS testing
We tested the intrusion prevention capabilities of each of the next-generation firewalls to determine how well they work and how the IPS integrates...
Could 'bullet time' stop a cyberattack?
Is a cyberattack by Iran against the U.S. a realistic threat? And if so, could it be defeated by a technique called "bullet time"? There is...
Fast-forwarding firewall faceoff
Next-generation firewalls claim to identify application-layer attacks and enforce application-specific policies while delivering top-notch...
Scaling Up With SonicWALL's Supermassive
SonicWALL's initial response to results of our SSL decryption tests was "you've got to be kidding - we go way faster than that." Indeed, the vendor's...
How we tested the next-generation firewalls
We assessed performance using three sets of tests, covering forwarding rates with mixed HTTP content; rates with static HTTP content, and TCP...
Survey: Screwing up network changes one of biggest causes for security, management failures
According to a survey of 182 IT security and operations professionals, one of the biggest security and management challenges they face is ... how...
Dell snaps up SonicWall security
Dell today said it acquired security vendor SonicWall for an undisclosed price. The acquisition is expected to be completed within the next 60 days.
Chinese Firewall's most blocked terms
Terms related to political activists, anti-government movements and state censorship efforts are the most likely to be censored on Chinese blogs and...
Cisco Innovates to Provide More Nimble Network Security
At a special media event hosted by Cisco at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco this week, the company unveiled a new vision for network...
Mozilla gives CAs a chance to come clean about certificate policy violations
Mozilla has asked all certificate authorities (CAs) to revoke subordinate CA certificates currently used for corporate SSL traffic management,...
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