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.

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.

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 ...

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.