Check Point FireWall-1 is the 800-pound gorilla of the commercial firewall industry. Check Point Software Technologies has ported its popular, sophisticated and relatively easy-to-administer firewall ...

A virtual private network (VPN) is a tool that enables the secure transmission of data over untrusted networks such as the Internet. VPNs commonly are used to connect local area networks (LANs) into ...

The Internet is great. But, connecting a computer—or a computer network—directly to a broadband access device, like a cable modem or DSL router, is asking for trouble. Crackers prey on small-office or ...

A security researcher has found flaws with two of PureVPN's Linux clients The impacted apps may leak IPv6 traffic under certain circumstances and interfere with local firewall settings PureVPN has ...

Instead of using Linux, OPNsense is powered by HardenedBSD, which is a security oriented fork of FreeBSD. The firewall distro is designed to serve as a firewall and routing platform and besides ...

German Linux seller SuSE has expanded its firewall software, which protects computers against intrusion, with a new feature to support encrypted communication channels called virtual private networks ...

Linux is only as secure as you make it.

I recently moved my computer to a friend's place and subsequently set us up a Linux box using Netfilter to do NAT and stateful firewalling. It currently does its job admirably. I'm slowly tricking the ...

FireWall-1 is also the most powerful commercial firewall solution now available for the Linux platform. FireWall-1 isn’t the only well-known solution to move into the Linux camp. AXENT Raptor Firewall ...

SAN JOSE — Network professionals will be able to more easily set up and configure Linux-based virtual private networks (VPN) in branch offices with software, services and hardware from OpenReach Inc.