Securing your home network is more critical than ever, as the Internet is a scary place full of terror, and automated tools have made the job of cybercriminals even easier. Setting up a powerful ...

I'm looking to create a rule or combination of rules in Windows Firewall on Win 7 (and possibly Win 8 and/or 10) that will allow connections for a specific program on a specific port only for specific ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that organizations rely on to protect ...

Poorly managed firewall rules can lead to security disasters. Here, security managers in the IT Central Station community review the top firewall management suites: Tufin, AlgoSec, FireMon and RedSeal ...

Two research studies have shown there is a direct correlation between firewall rule set complexity and the likelihood of configuration errors. One study shows most firewalls are badly configured and ...

Eliminating unused firewall rules can help improve network performance Journey of a firewall policy rule As all firewall managers know, creating firewall policies can be long and tortuous, with not ...

We have a vendor that wants to start using Samsung tablets managed via Samsung Knox in a secure environment. I'm using wildcard FQDNs (so *.samsung.com instead of long lists of subdomains), locked ...