Cisco is bringing technology obtained through last year’s acquisition of Sourcefire to its firewalls to enable threat-focused security for enterprises. Cisco’s ASA firewalls with Sourcefire’s ...

Firewalls, both hardware and software, protect computers from hackers and other online threats by blocking dangerous pieces of data from reaching the system. While hardware firewalls offer ...

The software that runs Cisco’s new Firewall 4200 Series now includes the ability to see into encrypted traffic without decrypting it, which the vendor says will allow enterprise customers to better ...

Cisco’s Talos research team says it’s monitoring a ‘global increase in brute-force attacks’ against targets including VPN services, while an exploit has been released for a critical vulnerability in ...

BLACK HAT USA — Las Vegas — Cisco's enterprise-class firewalls have at least a dozen vulnerabilities — four of which have been assigned CVE identifiers — that could allow attackers to infiltrate ...

Hardware Firewalls are mostly seen in broadband modems, and are the first line of defense, using Packet Filtering. Before an Internet packet reaches your PC, the Hardware Firewall will monitor the ...

The importance of a firewall cannot be over-emphasized. Firewalls, no doubt, are one of the most important components of your computer (network). A Firewall can block threats that your Antivirus may ...

Cisco fixed a high severity and actively exploited read-only path traversal vulnerability affecting the web services interface of two of its firewall products. If successfully exploited, the security ...

A firewall is a protective system that lies, in essence, between your computer network and the Internet. When used correctly, a firewall prevents unauthorized people from accessing your network. A ...