Businesses are accumulating data faster than they can accumulate people to analyse it, one consultant has pointed out as data-intensive security proves both more promising and more problematic than ever.
David Braue | 04 Aug | Read more
An intrusion prevention system (IPS) includes all the features of an intrusion detection system but also has the ability to act upon malicious traffic. Since the IPS usually sits in line with network traffic it can shut down attacks, typically by blocking access from the attacker or blocking access to the target. In some cases, the IPS can talk to the firewall to block an attack.
Phil Lerner, VP technology, Stonesoft Americas | 26 Nov | Read more
Palo Alto Networks founder and CTO Nir Zuk took to the stage to deliver the closing keynote address at the company's first-ever user conference here by trumpeting his company's success in firewall innovation and what he described as his competitors' weak attempts to follow.
Ellen Messmer | 15 Nov | Read more
Palo Alto Networks wants its next-generation firewall to be the center of enterprise security, giving it a malware-detection and analysis capability called WildFire that's intended to inspect all traffic passing through the firewall to detect targeted attacks within 30 minutes.
Ellen Messmer | 14 Nov | Read more
Palo Alto Networks Tuesday unveiled the first virtualized version of its next-generation firewall, server-based software intended to run on the VMware platform to allow security managers to set up firewall application-layer controls in virtual machines (VM).
Ellen Messmer | 13 Nov | Read more
For enterprises looking at Next-Generation Firewall’s, the most important consideration is: Will this new technology empower your security teams to securely enable applications to the benefit of the organization? It's not about blocking applications, but safely enabling them.