A firewall is a protective system that lies, in essence, between your computer network and the Internet. When used correctly, a firewall prevents unauthorized people from accessing your network. A ...

Microsoft Corp. this week announced an enterprise-level firewall and Web caching technology that the software vendor billed as its first product aimed purely at IT security uses. The new Internet ...

Firewalls, both hardware and software, protect computers from hackers and other online threats by blocking dangerous pieces of data from reaching the system. While hardware firewalls offer ...

A firewall that is provided by software. It often refers to a personal firewall in a user's computer, but software firewalls may be installed in servers as well. Contrast with hardware firewall. See ...

In this Recipe, I'll explain both the options for firewall protection and the differences between hardware and software implementations. By the end, you should be able to point a client to the ...

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. announced that its Quantum Firewall Software R82 has achieved Common Criteria EAL4+ certification, reinforcing its credibility as a security solution for ...

Assistant Professor Yupeng Zhang and his team, along with researchers from the University of California, Irvine, received a ...

A firewall is an essential security tool for your Mac. Not only does it help keep your Mac safe from security threats online, but it also improves your privacy by allowing you to keep an eye on data ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced its new Check ...

Free firewalls offer the outbound monitoring that's missing in XP's firewall and off by default (and impractical) in Vista, but third-party tools may create problems of their own. Dennis O'Reilly ...

Check Point Software has been named a Leader and Outperformer in GigaOm's Enterprise Firewall report for its innovative Quantum Security Solutions. Check Point Software Technologies has been ...

We are in a slow period at work now, so I would like to fill some of my time by learning firewall systems. Our shop uses Cisco PIX and ASA firewalls, which were set up long ago by engineers that have ...