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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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Advantages and Disadvantages of Firewall in Computer Network

The Crazy Programmer

Nowadays, the firewall is used mainly in organizations and also by individuals. But do you know what type of advantages users get after installing a firewall on their computer? Are there any disadvantages of using a firewall on computer devices? What is Firewall in Computer Network?

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Web Application Firewalls Aren’t Protecting Cloud-Native Apps

DevOps.com

Your web application firewall (WAF) is humming at the edges of your network, faithfully blocking malicious attacks before they can do any harm. The post Web Application Firewalls Aren’t Protecting Cloud-Native Apps appeared first on DevOps.com. Better yet, it’s a next-generation WAF (NG-WAF).

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Firewall Security: Is a Secure, Firewall-less Network Possible? Perhaps, But Why Would You?

Firemon

Just three years ago, technology headlines were rife with articles stating that the firewall was obsolete. And maybe that prophecy would have come true if we were stuck with the same old firewalls that could only perform simple packet filtering. Learn how FireMon Firewall Security solves your most complex problems.

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VM-Series Virtual Firewalls Beat Fortinet Fortigate in Miercom Testing

Palo Alto Networks

The lift-and-shift of applications to the cloud has accelerated the adoption of virtual firewalls over the past few years. Virtual firewalls have evolved with higher performance and flexibility for private, public and multi-cloud tenants. So, how does our virtual firewall performance stack up against the competition?

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From Phishing to Firewalls: Solving Security with AI

Palo Alto Networks

David Szabo, who conducted the interview, raises an interesting point about the computational requirements of running machine learning models on firewalls. Firewalls need to handle massive volumes of data, making memory optimization essential. I'm most proud of machine learning in the firewall.

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7 Critical Firewall Capabilities to Prevent Cyberattacks

CTOvision

Read Russ Schafer list seven critical firewall capabilities to prevent cyber attacks on Dark Reading : Firewall technology used to be simple and straightforward. A firewall would then filter incoming and outgoing traffic, letting safe traffic into your network, while keeping dangerous traffic out. […].

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