For Security & Risk Professionals

Market Overview: Firewall Auditing Tools

by John Kindervag, July 30, 2009

In the battle to protect your organization's information and assets, firewalls are the first line of defense for preventing attacks against the network. And for the most part, they've succeeded at keeping the enemy at bay — that is, when the firewall . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

TechRadar™ For Security & Risk Professionals: Network Threat Mitigation, Q3 2009

by John Kindervag, July 22, 2009

The news is filled with reports of networks attacks and stolen data. Consumers routinely undergo the stress of fraudulent charges or compromised credit cards. Terms such as "botnet" have become part of our vocabulary. As a result, security and risk professionals . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

PCI X-Ray: Network Segmentation

by John Kindervag, July 17, 2009

To effectively deal with the broad and complex requirements of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security, you need to break the elements apart to provide enhanced clarity. We've designed the PCI X-Ray series to provide actionable information to help Forrester . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

PCI X-Ray: Firewalls

by John Kindervag, February 13, 2009

To effectively deal with the broad and complex requirements of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security, you need to break the elements apart to provide enhanced clarity. We've designed the PCI X-Ray series to provide actionable information to help Forrester . . .

Symantec Buys Sygate, Takes Client Security Lead

by Natalie Lambert, Robert Whiteley, August 17, 2005

Symantec's acquisition of Sygate will accelerate the integration of client security suites beyond antimalware, firewall, and IPS features. Consolidation of client security, configuration management, and network quarantine products will provide better . . .

Backups Can Poke Holes In Your Firewall

by Bob Zimmerman, March 17, 2005

IT security administrators deploy firewalls to keep your enterprise data safe from intruders. However, you'll always have some important data to manage on the wrong side of your firewall. Here's how: Open and close legitimate ports in your firewall to . . .

Checkpoint Users: Be Selective in Hardware Partner Selection

by Michael Rasmussen, April 26, 2002

Checkpoint currently boasts around two-dozen hardware platform partnerships, which provide a range of hardware platforms. However, the majority of these companies have no significant market penetration and poor long-term viability prospects.

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Cisco Joins the Battle to Build Enterprise-Class, Firewall-Based Site-to-Site VPNs

by Jim Slaby, February 20, 2002

Cisco's announcement is further proof of a sea change that has taken place in the Internet VPN space in the past six months. Giga can now recommend enterprise clients consider firewall-based platforms for their site-to-site Internet VPNs.

Firewall Issues to Consider With Video Conferencing

by Michael Rasmussen, December 28, 2001

Organizations looking to secure video conferencing, without having their firewall implementation resemble Swiss cheese by opening a wide range of ports, are best served by implementing application proxy firewalls.

Choosing a Firewall: Security, Performance and Flexibility

by Michael Rasmussen, December 11, 2001

Firewalls, as with any product, have strengths and weaknesses. A feature that makes a product excel in one area may be the obstacle that causes it to fail in another.

IT Trends 2002: Firewalls

by Michael Rasmussen, November 20, 2001

The maturity of firewalls is driving them to two fronts: fast commodity appliances that provide a level of network protection or specialized application firewalls.

Corporate Firewall Management of Home Broadband Connections

by Michael Rasmussen, September 14, 2001

Giga recommends that organizations provide home workers with personal firewalls. Firewall management should fall into the hands of the user, who should be provided with established remote access policies and configuration guidelines and documentation.

Fast Firewalls for the Demilitarized Zone

by Steve Hunt, July 10, 2001

Giga recommends Check Point Firewall-1 (on Sun Solaris or Nokia platforms) or Cisco PIX stateful packet inspection firewalls. They provide adequate protection for DMZs while processing packets at maximum speed.

The Evolution of the Firewall

by Steve Hunt, June 25, 2001

Firewalls are an assumed fixture in network perimeters, but their role is changing and broadening. The stand-alone enterprise gateway firewall is a commodity platform and will not disappear any time soon.

Firewall Appliance Market Growing Steadily

by Steve Hunt, June 20, 2001

North American and European prospective firewall users are purchasing new firewall appliances about 30 percent of the time, relative to Sun, Hewlett-Packard (HP) or NT-based firewalls. Growth in all firewall purchases is about 20 percent year-on-year.

Best Practices in Security: Implement a Firewall to Protect Intranet's Legal Area

by Phil Rosch, April 12, 2001

A firewall allows authorized access to a company's legal systems, thus ensuring confidentiality while providing an effective account of usage.

Where Firewalls Fail

by Michael Rasmussen, March 20, 2001

With the onslaught of new Web-based systems and Web applications, firewalls fail on two points: (1) when deciding if Internet traffic is allowed, most firewalls only look at the IP header and (2) nonstandard applications often masquerade on other ports.