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Mac security focus: Firewalls

2008-10-06 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b7ca98 in Network World on Security
 
Firewalls monitor and regulate the data moving on and off your computer or network. They can keep criminals out while allowing legitimate network traffic in. Mac OS X comes with not one but two firewalls of its own. However, those two aren't always enough
 
Tags: firewalls, network, network traffic, firewalls monitor, mac, criminals, computer, data
 
 
 
 
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Web Security - Scanners, Firewalls and the SDLC

2008-03-15 15:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...firewalls are one such approach. This blog here discusses some of reasons why it can be a good one. Of course, if you use an application firewall as well as regular vulnerability scanning then you'll be mitigating a greater degree of risk. My preference is for security to be built into the development lifecycle - Michael Howard's blog is one...
 
Tags: security, website, website security, ngs typhon, ngs, typhon, subject, applications, immediately subject
 
 
 
 
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The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

2008-11-18 22:47:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...firewalls) to protect $39.5 billion worth of Cisco gear, about 2.3% of the network investment goes to security On the software side, we are buying $150 million of security countermeasures (like static analysis and black box scanners) to protect $98 billion of software (you know the stuff that runs the whole business), roughly coming to about...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security spends, safety information security, versus information security, information security budgets, information security budget, software security, software security space
 
 
 
 
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Leveraging VMWare for Firewall Consolidation - MSSPs

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2008-03-02 15:18:59 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...firewalls within their infrastructure? Wouldn't this be the same as reducing the number of physical servers within your infrastructure Ah, but surely this has been done before?? Cosine had a Virtual Firewall years ago where you could run multiple instances of a Firewall within a single hardware platform. NetScreen had VSYS (Virtual Systems)...
 
Tags: firewall, virtual firewall, ghz cpu, platform, set, ghz, vmware, set specific maximums, single hardware platform
 
 
 
 
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Isn't My Physical Firewall Good Enough?

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2008-02-06 14:33:15 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...firewalls and such in their data center they are protecting those virtual servers The answer to the question on whether physical firewalls are good enough is no. Physical Firewalls and some virtual security products sit inline between the virtual machines and the physical network. These physical firewalls or virtual security products provide...
 
Tags: security, security solution, virtual security products, physical firewalls, virtual security switch, virtual servers, secure virtual servers, communication path, enforce security policy
 
 
 
 
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Leveraging VMWare for Firewall Consolidation - MSSPs

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2008-03-02 15:18:59 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...firewalls within their infrastructure? Wouldn't this be the same as reducing the number of physical servers within your infrastructure Ah, but surely this has been done before?? Cosine had a Virtual Firewall years ago where you could run multiple instances of a Firewall within a single hardware platform. NetScreen had VSYS (Virtual Systems)...
 
Tags: firewall, virtual firewall, ghz cpu, platform, set, ghz, vmware, set specific maximums, single hardware platform
 
 
 
 
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Isn't My Physical Firewall Good Enough?

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2008-02-06 14:33:15 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...firewalls and such in their data center they are protecting those virtual servers The answer to the question on whether physical firewalls are good enough is no. Physical Firewalls and some virtual security products sit inline between the virtual machines and the physical network. These physical firewalls or virtual security products provide...
 
Tags: security, security solution, virtual security products, physical firewalls, virtual security switch, virtual servers, secure virtual servers, communication path, enforce security policy
 
 
 
 
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RIP Cisco PIX

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2008-02-06 06:46:31 by HASH0x8bc6004 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...firewalls on July 28th of this year. I don't think this announcement came as a shock to anyone. They had discontinued their VPN 3000 concentrators a year ago and it was only a matter of time that the PIX boxes went the same way. For me personally the PIX firewalls just seemed to always be there. Yes Checkpoint was the "cool" firewall when I...
 
Tags: pix, box, utm box, utm, pix boxes, boxes, pix owners, utm duty, analyst
 
 
 
 
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RIP Cisco PIX

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2008-02-06 07:00:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...firewalls on July 28th of this year. I don't think this announcement came as a shock to anyone. They had discontinued their VPN 3000 concentrators a year ago and it was only a matter of time that the PIX boxes went the same way. For me personally the PIX firewalls just seemed to always be there. Yes Checkpoint was the "cool" firewall when I...
 
Tags: pix, box, utm box, utm, pix boxes, boxes, pix owners, utm duty, analyst