When it comes to firewalls, most system administrators prefer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) rather than a command-line interface (CLI), a new academic study published over the summer has ...

Linux firewalls can be very complicated. With the help of a GUI, firewall configuration is easier. These GUIs are easy to install and free to use. A firewall is often the heart and soul of desktop ...

Back in 2003, m0n0wall started as a GUI to manage a firewall. Manuel Kasper, its developer, once said that no option out ...

We just got a new Juniper SSG-140 firewall. I've never worked with these things before. My experience is with Cisco and, to some extent, Sonicwall, so you'll have to bear with me as I am still ...

I am just testing the waters here, but here's the situation: our main firewall (ASA) has several networks. Two important ones are our main LAN and a VLAN that has special authentication and ...

A new product introduced last week at the RSA Conference 2001 in San Francisco by 3Com Corp. and Secure Computing Corp. aims to halt, or at least deter, network mischief carried out by insiders. San ...

This chapter looks at the management of firewalls. From the perspective of the small office/home user, the firewall is a single device that protects the home network from malicious traffic—it keeps ...

Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of ...

OS X’s built-in firewall is good enough to protect most Mac users from hacker attacks. But it doesn’t have many bells and whistles and isn’t very easy to customize. So to find out whether you can get ...