Generally speaking, firewall audit tools evaluate individual firewalls, even if they can do so for hundreds of them. Some are slowly moving toward a more networkwide risk-assessment approach and the ...

Auditing firewalls to keep regulators happy and tracking rule changes — especially for businesses buying firewalls (compare products) from multiple vendors — is a burden that a variety of third-party ...

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For businesses large and small, firewalls mean more than network security, they also mean unknown amounts of network downtime during configuration and loads of extra expense for consultants and ...

CyberRatings.org, the independent non-profit organization dedicated to putting confidence into cybersecurity product quality, perhaps can be likened to one of those little “conscience cherubs” who ...

Investing in technology is crucial for businesses to protect their networks, data, devices and users from external threats. Depending on which source you look at, most experts suggest a firewall ...

While it is perhaps the most basic security defense in the IT network toolbox, firewalls present the greatest challenges to today’s CISOs because of their ubiquitous nature. At least that is the ...