Many organizations don't turn on logging in their firewalls because of misconceived concerns about adverse performance. Don't let that be you. The firewall is a barrier between your organization and ...

Firewalls are computers dedicated to filtering particular kinds of network traffic between two networks. They are usually employed to protect a LAN from the rest of the Internet. Securing every box on ...

Managing firewall rules has proven to be a complex, error-prone, expensive, and inefficient for many large-networked organizations, according to a new research. A firewall is the safety barrier ...

Firewall logs. There's never enough time to review them, but you can't ignore them. Here's one way to look for malicious connections without spending a lot of time at it. Firewall logs always contain ...

I'm looking for some free (preferable) or relatively cheap software that will do some log analysis on an SG580 firewall. I've got the logs streaming to a syslog server, but the raw data isn't any fun ...

Karen Scarfone is the principal consultant for Scarfone Cybersecurity. She provides cybersecurity publication consulting services to organizations and was formerly a senior computer scientist for the ...

My network at home is behind a Netgear router/NAT as is common these days. On one of the PC's I turned on the Windows firewall log and I visited a few websites and it reports to me that it blocked a ...