One of the things that is making this transition to Check Point Software easier is the community of people that support, use, and sell what used to be called Firewall-1, but now goes by a few different names and offers many more functions than just firewalling and VPNs. It’s a community I have...

Image by PhoneBoy via Flickr I recently went through the trouble of installing a Nokia IP260 as a firewall at home. It was one of the only machines I felt I could keep running in my office for any length of time and not cringe at the fan noise being thrown off. Clearly, our security appliances are n...

Seeing as how I have my Check Point CCSE again, and it’s likely I’m going to be working for Check Point at some point in the near future, I figure it’d be worth my while to get a “proper” Nokia firewall going again. I opted for the following: NGX R65 HFA_40 SmartCenter ...

Check Point annuncia la disponibilità di ZoneAlarm Extreme Security: la nuova suite all in one che integra tecnologie core e massima sicurezza per il browser per garantire agli utenti la miglior difesa contro le sofisticate minacce a cui sono oggi soggetti i computer . ZoneAlarm Extreme Security, i...

If you’ve been following my Twitter feed, you’re probably wondering why I’ve made references to needles and haystacks lately, and more recently, history books. Twitter only gives you 140 characters and what I’ve been working on is a little hard to describe succinctly. However...

Is it me or does it seem that Israeli startups are hotter than a stolen tamale? IBM (IBM) announces it’s buying ANOTHER Israeli startup. This time its FilesX, a company providing data recovery and back-up solutions for business continuity. This is on top of Big Blue’s purchase of XIV ear...