Firewall audits can help prove how secure a network actually is -- as opposed to how secure your customer thinks it is. Here, Hamelin, chief security architect at Tufin Technologies, provider of ...

Generally speaking, firewall audit tools evaluate individual firewalls, even if they can do so for hundreds of them. Some are slowly moving toward a more networkwide risk-assessment approach and the ...

Why would anyone need firewall audit software? If you're already jugging hundreds of rules on multiple firewalls, here's what these tools can do for you. Firewall audit tools automate the otherwise ...

Misconfigured firewalls are more common than you'd think: With the massive number of firewall rules that accrue in a large network and the typically manual process, mistakes happen, and often. But ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Firewalls are a key part of the overall security posture in higher ...