How good is your antivirus firewall software program? It is hard to tell as a end user. Sure, you can rely on information provided by test magazines, Internet websites, antivirus and firewall software developers or opinions from friends and colleagues. All of those recommendations are to a degree ba...

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 ...

Ok, network people, time to stand up and be counted.  Or at very least, do some counting. By default, my firewall at work gives me a list of the top twenty five sites visited, among other things.  Every now and then I look at this list, especially when I’m feeling a lot of good will toward m...

Network Security, IT, Software Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: When Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) announced a couple of weeks ago it had acquired Defensio, a Canadian spam filtering Web service, I realized the San Diego software developer had morphed into something bigger and more robust than I remembered. ̶...

Heed well the following XKCD cartoon. Click here for the full-resolution version. “You are not a lawyer” (YANAL) is a fascinating, brief, but effective introduction to the fallacy of using technological reasons for a jury to doubt certain evidence in court, thereby failing to meet the &#...

From Astaro: URL http://up2date.astaro.com/2008/11/axg_v7400_beta_available.html#more What's new in BETA ASG V7.400? The following new features are being introduced: New HTTPS Filtering * Scan and Filter HTTPS Content * Block programs that use HTTPS to circumvent/tunnel around the proxy filters WAN ...

Can someone give me any pointers, tips, or caveats about installing BSD on sun hardware for use as a firewall/router? I've been pondering a while about installing OpenBSD on an old Sun Netra T1. I plan to use it as a firewall/router using pf and maybe squid and Proxy on it. I used to have an old Net...

In 1998, the U.S. Congress enacted the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), a law intended to control child access to sexually explicit material on the Internet. The law was immediately challenged on free speech and other grounds and its enforcement was delayed. After ten years of litigation, on Janu...