Along with permit/deny functions for connections on different network ports, the latest firewall technologies also include functions for monitoring applications running on Internet ports 80 and ...

The key concept to the feasibility of using an SDN-enabled switch as a firewall is the state that it would maintain of the application traffic flows.

Analysis: The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers ...

By Greg Barnes, ANZ Managing Director, A10 Networks In protecting critical applications, IT professionals need to tread a fine line between enforcing application security against increasingly ...

Optimizing firewalls and network devices can improve performance problems that companies might otherwise have had to throw new hardware at. Benefits will be even more noticeable as traffic increases.

Former Solaris chief John McFarlane believes special purpose network boxes should all be consolidated into one big unit--and he's got a group of old pros to help out. Ex-Sun exec's redesigning the ...

Masergy Communications Inc. announced Virtual f(n), a network functions virtualization (NFV) solution that puts networking routing and firewall capabilities entirely into the software realm. The ...

The two new appliances boast up to 120 Gbps of firewall throughput, 100 Gbps of SD-WAN throughput, and 40 Gbps of Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) throughput, Narin said.