Floodgate-Packet Filter is an embedded firewall from Icon Labs that allows networked devices to control the packets they process. It protects against potentially malicious attacks by filtering packets ...

Firewalls have been on the front lines of network security for 25 years. Over time they’ve evolved beyond simple packet filtering to take on a wider and deeper variety of tasks to block modern threats ...

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 ...

Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet have received a clean bill of health for their firewall protections, while the jury is still ...

A next-generation firewall analyses network traffic and allows or denies traffic transit depending on set firewall policies based on traffic characteristics. Next-generation firewalls can read data ...