Touted as "the open source firewall," you'd expect T.REX Firewall to be completely open source. But for the latest release of the product (version 2), no source is available. The firewall itself is a ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is needed to protect web applications and APIs from cyber threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other malicious attacks. With cyberattacks on web ...

At first glance, stateful packet filtering appears to have conquered the firewall world, both in terms of market share and mind share. The list of products based on stateful packet filtering is a long ...

We all know that the Web is a nasty place, with denial of service attacks, SQL injection, cross-site scripting and other malware invented hourly to try to pry into your networks. Over the years, a ...

Microsoft this week released a preview version of its Azure Active Directory (AD) Application Proxy service. Azure AD Application Proxy extends Microsoft's cloud-based authentication service to an ...

Learn how firewalls have progressed from simple packet filtering to more sophisticated application-level filtering. Webopedia.com defines a firewall as “a system designed to prevent unauthorized ...

Learn how to keep your network secure without slowing it down or causing latency. Understand everything from unified threat management (UTM) and proxys to purchasing advice and firewall placement.

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...

It is as if the application level attack did not exist. The only potential for risk mitigation is in the second firewall's application proxy. As far as the attacker is concerned during an application ...