Touted as "the open source firewall," you'd expect T.REX Firewall to be completely open source. But for the latest release of the product (version 2), no source is available. The firewall itself is a ...

At first glance, stateful packet filtering appears to have conquered the firewall world, both in terms of market share and mind share. The list of products based on stateful packet filtering is a long ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is a critical component of an enterprise security infrastructure, providing a key security layer for web-facing applications and APIs. As web applications mature and ...

The use of a multi-layer dual firewall topology is relatively new in network security, but it is rapidly gaining in popularity. In many respects, a dual firewall topology is similar to that of an ...

We all know that the Web is a nasty place, with denial of service attacks, SQL injection, cross-site scripting and other malware invented hourly to try to pry into your networks. Over the years, a ...

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Microsoft this week released a preview version of its Azure Active Directory (AD) Application Proxy service. Azure AD Application Proxy extends Microsoft's cloud-based authentication service to an ...

Microsoft this week announced various Azure Active Directory improvements. One of those improvements concerns Azure AD Application Proxy on-boarding enhancements. Microsoft made it easier for ...