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US Firms Are Over-Reliant on Firewalls to Protect Against DDoS Attacks
More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.
US firms over-reliant on firewalls to defend against DDoS attacks
More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.
How we tested next-generation firewalls
We tested next generation firewalls by looking at seven separate areas that we felt would be important to network managers trying to deploy these products in enterprise networks.
Next-gen firewalls: Off to a good start
When we tested four next-gen firewalls strictly on performance, we found that the products could forward packets at impressive rates, but throughput dropped when advanced security features were turned on. We now dive deep into application identification and control - the defining features of next-gen firewalls - to find out what works and what doesn't.
U.S. Firms Over-Reliant on Firewalls to Defend Against DDoS Attacks
More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.
Next-gen firewalls require external visibility tools
Knowing what's happening on your network is a pre-requisite to controlling the traffic. We call that visibility because it combines all of the information the firewall knows, including session and application information, traffic volumes, and rate information, into a way to "see" into your network -- to give you visibility.
Basic firewall functionality: Check Point's maturity shows through
Enterprise firewalls must have policies to control traffic, ability to create site-to-site VPNs using standards-based IPsec, translate addresses and port numbers (NAT) when needed, and apply basic bandwidth management to traffic. They must also support features such as high availability (active/passive or active/active), virtual LANs, Ethernet link aggregation, and global management systems.
Fortinet firewalls, a potent UTM option for consultants
Fortinet ranked at the top of Gartner's leaders/visionaries quadrant in a recent Magic Quadrant report. Learn more reasons why Fortinet firewalls are worth a look.
Facebook 'rewarding, thanking' hackers for breaking through site's firewalls
Washington, May 6 (ANI): Facebook is 'rewarding' and 'thanking' hackers who break through the social networking site's firewalls, according to a report.
Firewalls cannot resolve issues facing some European countries, warns IMF
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund Wednesday warned that risk of another acute crisis in Europe remains a possibility, despite the progress made so far on building "firewalls" or bailout funds.
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