Firewall architectures have been changing for 35 years, sometimes to accommodate better technology and hardware, but just as ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A common misconception about firewalls is that they are ...

As recently as a few years ago, IT personnel were trained to harden their network perimeter, barring outsiders entirely. In contrast, today’s security environment is far less clear-cut — and the role ...

Keeping your home network or home lab safe is essential to securing private data and your personal devices. While I've got a prebuilt hardware firewall on my main network these days, my home lab often ...

A firewall is software or hardware that sits between two networks -- typically, between your LAN and the Internet -- and allows some sorts of network traffic through while preventing others. It works ...