COMMENTARY--Anti-virus software won't protect you from the latest type of worm affecting Windows systems: you need a personal firewall. Here's why there's never been a better time to take this extra ...

Need a dedicated firewall appliance? OPNsense is a free, open-source solution, ready to protect your network from intrusion. The protection of your network is one of the most important jobs in the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It seems like every day we hear of a computer security breach in the news: A hacker who has stolen records from one company or another; ...

One of the editions is ready to use VMware Virtual Appliance and the second edition is a software application. You will need a dedicated computer to use the Sophos firewall application. By dedicated, ...

In this Recipe, I'll explain both the options for firewall protection and the differences between hardware and software implementations. By the end, you should be able to point a client to the ...

Linux 2.4's Netfilter firewall code and its front end, iptables, deserve the praise and popularity they've garnered. They've brought Linux firewalls to the same level as commercial stateful ...

Comodo Firewall 5 stealths ports as it should, but its program control is effectively off by default. Its Defense+ behavior-based protection blocks both good and bad programs, pushing security ...