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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 3: Performance Takes Center Stage

Firemon

As internet speeds increased and firewall adoption inside the enterprise increased, performance drove purchasing decisions. Enter Netscreen, the firewall appliance, and the Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Netscreenintroduced the purpose-built firewall “appliance.”

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Firewall in Computer Network

The Crazy Programmer

Nowadays, the firewall is used mainly in organizations and also by individuals. This application can be installed in the desired hardware and software component of the computer. But do you know what type of advantages users get after installing a firewall on their computer? What is Firewall in Computer Network?

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Just Released and Ready for Download — Software Firewalls for Dummies

Palo Alto Networks

If you want to protect applications and workloads throughout today’s complex and interrelated environments, you need software firewalls. You can better understand the extensive need and numerous use cases for virtual firewalls, container firewalls and managed cloud firewalls with our essential guide, “ Software Firewalls for Dummies.”

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How to Develop IoT Applications: A Complete Guide for 2022

The Crazy Programmer

People create IoT applications; people use IoT applications—the world’s technology grows from the internet to the Internet of Things, from middlemen transaction processes to Smart Contracts. How do you develop IoT applications ? The software is crucial because it links to the hardware through the cloud and the network.

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The AI continuum

CIO

AI’s broad applicability and the popularity of LLMs like ChatGPT have IT leaders asking: Which AI innovations can deliver business value to our organization without devouring my entire technology budget? It provides smart applications for translation, speech-to-text, cybersecurity monitoring and automation.

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CRN 2020 Hottest Cybersecurity Products Include CN-Series Firewall

Palo Alto Networks

We’re proud to announce that CRN lists the CN-Series container firewall one of the hottest cybersecurity products of 2020. CN-Series is the industry’s first containerized Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) designed specifically for Kubernetes environments and addresses growing container usage.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO

Physical security of the Ethernet/fiber cabling, along with the switch hardware interconnecting today’s casino floors, has become a much bigger focus of IT security teams as direct physical access can often be the starting point for unauthorized access.