http://www.perimeterfirewall.com This website is about Firewalls and Network Security Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:40:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the best ways to protect against the main threats not covered by traditional firewalls is to use unified threat management (UTM). These are multipurpose security solutions/devices that at a minimum have a firewall, VPN, antivirus, and intrusion detection/prevention system (IDS/IPS).  Some UTMs- sometimes known as super UTMs- also ... http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=102 Even with a firewall, there are many areas of risk. One of the current dangerous is malware. Malware is malicious software that is installed on computers without the user knowing it is there. This includes Trojan horses, viruses, worms, spyware, phishing schemes. One of the most prevalent ways to get ... http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=97 Other duties of a firewall include gateway defense, enforcing security policies, hiding internal networks, reporting on threats and firewall activity, and now providing antivirus, web traffic filtering, and in some cases spam filtering. The firewall is evolving into what we call a UTM firewall. A Unified Threat Management device. While ... http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=94 A firewall is a system designed to prevent access from an external network (such as the internet) to an inside private network. The firewall is placed between the untrusted network and the trusted network and monitors all traffic between the two. Early firewalls tended to just block all inbound traffic ... http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=90 Firewalls have become a common word in the business world. With the introduction of the internet to business operations, security has become a major concern. Over the last few years breaches have become a common place and the firewall has evolved. Over the last few years, the security threats to ... http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=87 How to configure a custom install package for your secure vpn clients. There are many options here but I want to do a simple one and then elaborate on it further in another post. Download the latest client build from Checkpoint Obtain the MSI packaging tool provided by Checkpoint.  If you have the ... http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=84 Check Point, the leader in network security has released its latest security architecture.  Security Blades is the new security innovation from Check Point.  These are logical independent security blocks that are centrally managed.   For example ,you can have your standard Firewall blade and then add an IPS blade to further ... http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=82 This was a surprise but not completely.  In the past Nokia was the dominant hardware source for Check Point security software.  With the move by Check Point into its own hardware line, it was a question of how long Nokia would stay in the field.  What will be the outcome of ... http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=80 Sometimes  you want to know how much memory you have on a Linux box.  There are several ways to do this but I have found the best and easiest way is to us the top process. At the command line enter type top or vmstat. Example: [root@ftp ~]#top top - 15:49:46 up 53 days, ... http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=78 Internet security gurus and leading vendors are urging the U.S. federal government to rapidly deploy security and authentication mechanisms at the top level of the DNS hierarchy, which is known as the root zone. Read Full Article on Network World here http://www.perimeterfirewall.com/?p=76