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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 1: Early Days

Firemon

Jody Brazil CEO at FireMon This is not a primer on firewalls, nor is it meant to represent a comprehensive picture of the history of the firewall. There are plenty of good resources that outline the history of the firewall, for example Wikipedia: [link]. On this front, stateful inspection won.

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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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FireMon Policy Analyzer Delivers Powerful, Free Solution to Combat Firewall Misconfigurations

Firemon

According to Gartner, 99% of firewall and cloud security failures can be attributed to errors in configuration. According to Gartner, 99% of firewall and cloud security failures can be attributed to errors in configuration. Policy Analyzer is a solution that delivers immediate value to firewall and security administrators.

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Phishers target oil and gas industry amid Covid-19 downturn

The Parallax

The oil-and-gas industry has been taking a beating as severe as any other hit hard by the Covid-19 shutdown. With all that going on, the industry is ripe for hackers to exploit. Attacks are becoming more complex because so many people are working from home and are outside of their employers’ firewalls,” he says.

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Digital Tool Estimates Software Firewall Credits for Your Environment

Palo Alto Networks

Flexible, agile and simple, credit-based licensing is the way to go for software firewalls in virtual and container form factors. Now, with our handy Software NGFW Credit Estimator tool, you can easily figure out when to dial up and down these instances of our industry-leading NGFWs.

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Free 30-Day VM-Series Virtual Firewall Trial

Palo Alto Networks

Take the industry’s leading virtual firewall for a no-obligation spin in your virtualized environments. It’s never been easier, thanks to our 30-day free trial to test the VM-Series virtual firewalls for VMware ESXi and Linux KVM environments. It all starts with filling out this simple form for the virtual firewall trial.

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4 ways CISOs can manage AI use in the enterprise

CIO

But conversely, trying to prohibit the use of and blocking of AI at the firewall would be akin to being considered a Luddite from the Stone Age – you simply cannot prevent access to AI and be a player in the 21 st century. Here are four steps to take now as the industry, technologies, and regulations evolve.