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- InterGate Policy Manager 9.3.1 (Mac)
- InterGate Policy Manager - A comprehensive Internet access management solution, providing fine grained control of web content access, usage of Peer to Peer, Instant Messaging and Skype networks, logging and reporting of user activity, as well a core IP router and firewall to provide advanced protection to your network. Advanced...
- Software downloads 2009-10-09
- Asus Wireless-N RT-N16 router offers 300Mbps throughput
- ASUS on Tuesday announced the RT-N16 router, touting speed for data transfers, simplicity for usage and security. The RT-N16 offers a maximum wireless speed throughput of 300Mbps and enables 24/7 downloads to wireless clients, even when PCs are off. The router comes with...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Botnet exploiting MS0867 flaws (Inside the botnets that never make the news)
- Botnet exploiting MS0867 flaws Inside the botnets that never make the newsBlock IRC traffic completelyThat's the solution. IRC traffic has no place in business environments.Image 5...Did you do the obfuscating? If not, how do you know they're all on the same server?How pray tell?You're forgetting, any type of...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- The Dirty Secret Behind the UTM: What Security Vendors Don't Want You to Know
- Until the late 1990s, network security threats were predominantly written by programmers seeking notoriety, or those who just wanted to test their skills and have some fun, at the expense of other computer users. As a result, early threats were limited in scope and capabilities, and were easily thwarted using...
- White papers 2009-04-17
- Are Commercial Firewalls Ready for IP Version 6?
- IP version 6 transport is not broadly supported by commercial firewalls. If organizations attempt to "Go native IPv6" today, they will be limited to choosing among the 31% of the firewall products surveyed that support IPv6 transport. The paper does note, however, that although fewer than one in three products...
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Using Cisco IOS Zone-Based and Classic Firewall in High-Availability Network Environments
- Businesses increasingly rely on data networks to carry mission-critical information. This is particularly true for businesses that rely on IP data networks to carry voice-over-IP data for packet telephony. Data networks must offer high-availability capabilities so that business continuity is not interrupted by scheduled maintenance or unexpected downtime due to...
- White papers 2008-04-01
- SMC SMCWGBR14-N Barricade N router
- You may not be familiar with SMC, but you should if you're shopping for a Draft N router. The company's SMCWGBR14-N Barricade N router finished at or above the average of the group of recent Draft N 2.0 routers we've tested while exhibiting impressive range. It also boasts a generous...
- Product reviews 2008-03-13
- The Advantages of a Multi-core Architecture in Network Security Appliances
- Network security has become increasingly complex. Network communications no longer rely simply on store-and-forward applications like email, but have expanded to include real-time collaboration tools, Web 2.0 applications, Instant Messenger IM and peer-to-peer applications, Voice over IP VoIP, streaming media and telepresence conferencing, each presenting conduits for potential attack. The...
- White papers 2008-02-21
- Check Point NGX CCSA/CCSE
- Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic, ZDNet, or BNET! Offer ends June 26, 2009.View Available Dates and LocationsThere are more Check Point firewalls protecting networks than any other firewall on the market. Check Point's patented stateful packet inspection sets the standard for other...
- Training 2008-01-01
- Essentials of Information Security - Security+
- Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends June 26, 2009.View Available Dates and LocationsIn this intense, hands-on course, you will not only prepare for the Security+ certification, but you will also gain the foundation security knowledge to protect...
- Training 2008-01-01
- How Cisco IT Migrated to Stronger Firewall Protection for Large Sites
- Like other companies, Cisco Systems needs to connect its intranets to the public Internet to remain competitive and successful. But while connecting to the Internet is critical to Cisco's survival, it also exposes the network to potential attacks from anywhere in the world. Cisco IT and Cisco Information Security InfoSec...
- Case studies 2007-12-21
- The Corporatenet will be a big 2008 trend
- Having beaten back attempts to mandate net neutrality, phone and cable giants are busy hijacking the Internet for their own purposes. (Big Brother poster from TomGPalmer.Com.) I tried to download a new copy of OpenOffice yesterday, using the BitTorrent client suggested on the OpenOffice Web site. It...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- NetVeda Safety.Net 3.8 (Windows)
- Safety.Net offers inbound and outbound firewall protection, filtering, parental controls and e-mail safety for home office. It protects all computers on the network from hackers, worms, Trojans and intruders with multi layer deep packet stateful inspection. Users control which applications and components are trusted to access the network. Advanced Firewall...
- Software downloads 2007-10-02
- Can Mac users rely on Apple to protect them from security threats?
- Can Mac users rely on Apple to protect them from security threats?Yeah, you must really love shovin' that one down everyone's throatsFunny a lot of your Mac posts are in regard to the blindness under Apple and the utter disregard Mac users have for security.Really, you should get out more...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- When is a firewall not a firewall? When it's Vista's built-in firewall
- When is a firewall not a firewall? When it's Vista's built-in firewallEver seen an ordinary user...... confronted with ZoneAlarm's free firewall? One person I know allowed everything in and out, of course, and was looking for a button to press to make the program stop asking. Somehow the...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-05
- Secure your network with stateful inspection and application layer filtering from an ISA 2004 firewall
- Unlike traditional packet filter based stateful hardware firewalls, the ISA firewall is able to perform stateful application layer inspection, meaning it fully inspects the communication streams passed by the ISA firewall from one network to another. It analyzes and makes decisions on all layers of the communication, including...
- Book chapters 2007-01-30
- Learn to build a separate guest and internal WLAN on Cisco 871W
- The Cisco 871W router is a relatively low cost device ($500 to $700 depending on licensing options) that can perform a wide range of duties described in this earlier blog. Anyone can purchase one or two of these routers for a lab in their IT department to practice with...
- Blog posts 2006-08-04
- Denial of Service Tuning for Cisco IOS Software Firewall and Intrusion Prevention System
- Cisco IOS Stateful Packet Inspection maintains counters of the number of "Half-open" TCP connections, as well as the total connection rate through the firewall and intrusion prevention software. These half-open connections are TCP connections that have not completed the SYN - SYN/ACK - ACK handshake that is always used by...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- A painful Vista networking bug
- When I installed the latest Windows Vista release - the February Customer Technology Preview CTP, build 5308 - I ran into an odd networking bug. After a little research, I discovered I'm not alone.The symptoms are baffling. The network adapter installs correctly, and Vista can see all the other computers...
- Blog posts 2006-02-24
- Best of Show Systems-Munich
- It took two days but my tour of the six halls of this 5 day expo is complete. Here are a few companies that I found worth a second look:BalaBit. This Hungarian startup was launched from the development of open source syslog tools: syslog-ng. Their product, Zorp,...
- Blog posts 2005-10-25
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