Now you're ready for the next step: configuring the firewall rule-set, or policy file. A rule-set specifies what services to let through your firewall, and which ones to keep out. A rule defines the ...

Securing your home network is more critical than ever, as the Internet is a scary place full of terror, and automated tools have made the job of cybercriminals even easier. Setting up a powerful ...

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Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that organizations rely on to protect ...

After years of use, the rule bases that drive your network firewalls get unwieldy — clogged with expired, obsolete, duplicative and conflicting policies. For better performance, stronger security and ...

Two research studies have shown there is a direct correlation between firewall rule set complexity and the likelihood of configuration errors. One study shows most firewalls are badly configured and ...

Eliminating unused firewall rules can help improve network performance Journey of a firewall policy rule As all firewall managers know, creating firewall policies can be long and tortuous, with not ...

We have a vendor that wants to start using Samsung tablets managed via Samsung Knox in a secure environment. I'm using wildcard FQDNs (so *.samsung.com instead of long lists of subdomains), locked ...

If you want to remove duplicate Windows Firewall rules, this article is for you. Sometimes, the firewall recreates rules after an update, after some configurations, or after installing a program on ...