Eliminating unused firewall rules can help improve network performance Journey of a firewall policy rule As all firewall managers know, creating firewall policies can be long and tortuous, with not ...

I'm looking to create a rule or combination of rules in Windows Firewall on Win 7 (and possibly Win 8 and/or 10) that will allow connections for a specific program on a specific port only for specific ...

Do note that you have to launch Windows PowerShell as an administrator, otherwise, the commands will not execute and you will receive an error in PowerShell. Let’s ...

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 ...

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. Firewalls that protect enterprise networks play a crucial role on the front line of defense. The ...

Firewalls can be difficult to manage. Often times rules lack granularity due to a lack of understanding of the application traffic or trying to keep up with the speed of business. Firewalls get more ...