When I started writing this column in autumn of 2000, I had the day job of firewall engineer. I enjoyed that type of work, but I was enough of a big-picture kind of guy to be aware that every year, ...

This chapter looks at the management of firewalls. From the perspective of the small office/home user, the firewall is a single device that protects the home network from malicious traffic—it keeps ...

With the whole of the networking worldmoving toward inhabiting a single global village, we inevitablyhave to start thinking about locking our doors and bolting ourwindows. It has to be recognized that ...

Every organization that connects its network to the Internet needs a firewall to protect against intrusions and attacks from "out there." And today's security vendors make firewall products to fit ...