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Windows Firewall Control 3.1.0.3 (Windows)
January 8, 2012 12:00am PST
Windows Firewall Control is a nifty little application developed to provide quick access to the most frequent options used from Windows Firewall. It sits in the system tray and allows user to...
Provided by: BiniSoft
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Windows Firewall Control 3.1.0.3 (Windows)
January 8, 2012 12:00am PST
Windows Firewall Control is a nifty little application developed to provide quick access to the most frequent options used from Windows Firewall. It sits in the system tray and allows user to...
Provided by: BiniSoft
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Firewall Compressor: An Algorithm for Minimizing Firewall Policies
January 13, 2008 12:00am PST
A firewall is a security guard placed between a private network and the outside Internet that monitors all incoming and outgoing packets. The function of a firewall is to examine every packet and...
Provided by: Michigan State University
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A Cross-Domain Privacy-Preserving Protocol for Cooperative Firewall Optimization
March 27, 2011 12:00am PDT
Firewalls have been widely deployed on the Internet for securing private networks. A firewall checks each incoming or outgoing packet to decide whether to accept or discard the packet based on its...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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What Do Firewalls Protect? an Empirical Study of Firewalls, Vulnerabilities, and Attacks
March 30, 2010 12:00am PDT
Firewalls are a cornerstone of how sites implement "Defense in depth." Many security policies assume that outside attackers must first penetrate a firewall configured to block their access. This...
Provided by: UC Regents
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Automatic Detection of Firewall Misconfigurations Using Firewall and Network Routing Policies
May 12, 2009 12:00am PDT
Firewalls are the most prevalent and important means of enforcing security policies inside networks and across organizational boundaries. However, effective and fault free firewall management in...
Provided by: Carnegie Mellon University
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It's Time to Fix the Firewall: Re-Establishing the Firewall as the Cornerstone of Enterprise Network Security
February 1, 2009 12:00am PST
For the last 15 years, port-blocking firewalls have been the cornerstone of enterprise network security. But much like a stone, they've stood still in the face of rapidly evolving applications and...
Provided by: Palo Alto Networks
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A Systematic Methodology for Firewall Penetration Testing
January 1, 2009 12:00am PST
Firewall testing is one of the most useful of a set of alternatives for evaluating the security effectiveness of a firewall. A major advantage of firewall testing is being able to empirically...
Provided by: SRI Consulting
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Verify Consistency Between Security Policy and Firewall Policy With Answer Set Programming
October 18, 2008 12:00am PDT
Firewalls are core elements in network security, the effectiveness of firewall security is dependent on configuring firewall policy correctly. Firewall policy is a lower-level policy which...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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PolicyVis: Firewall Security Policy Visualization and Inspection
October 8, 2007 12:00am PDT
Firewalls have an important role in network security. However, managing firewall policies is an extremely complex task because the large number of interacting rules in single or distributed...
Provided by: University of Waterloo
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Tuning Cisco IOS Firewall Denial-of-Service Protection
October 1, 2006 12:00am PDT
Prior to Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4(11)T, Cisco IOS Firewall provided Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack protection as a default when either Classic or Zone-Based Policy Firewall was applied....
Provided by: Cisco Systems
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The Margrave Tool for Firewall Analysis
October 21, 2010 12:00am PDT
Writing and maintaining firewall configurations can be challenging, even for experienced system administrators. Tools that uncover the consequences of configurations and edits to them can help...
Provided by: Brown University
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FIREMAN: A Toolkit for FIREwall Modeling and ANalysis
March 6, 2006 12:00am PST
Security concerns are becoming increasingly critical in networked systems. Firewalls provide important defense for network security. However, misconfigurations in firewalls are very common and...
Provided by: University of California
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ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 10.1.079 (Windows)
December 27, 2011 12:00am PST
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall blocks viruses that antivirus alone misses, stops hackers attempting to break into your computer, and unlike the default Windows firewall, provides outbound firewall...
Provided by: ZoneAlarm
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ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 10.1.079 (Windows)
December 27, 2011 12:00am PST
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall blocks viruses that antivirus alone misses, stops hackers attempting to break into your computer, and unlike the default Windows firewall, provides outbound firewall...
Provided by: ZoneAlarm
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Analysis of Firewall Policy Rules Using Traffic Mining Techniques
December 24, 2009 12:00am PST
The firewall is usually the first line of defense in ensuring network security for an organization. However, the management of firewalls has proved to be complex, error-prone, and costly for many...
Provided by: Cyber Defense & Network Assurability (CyberDNA) Center
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Consistency Verification of Stateful Firewalls Is Not Harder Than the Stateless Case
August 11, 2009 12:00am PDT
Firewalls play an important role in the enforcement of access control policies in contemporary networks. However, firewalls are effective only if they are configured correctly such that their...
Provided by: Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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A General Framework for Benchmarking Firewall Optimization Techniques
July 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
Firewalls are among the most pervasive network security mechanisms, deployed extensively from the borders of networks to end systems. The complexity of modern firewall policies has raised the...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Firewall Security for SMB Networks Firewall Security for SMB Networks
November 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
Every year billions of dollars and tens of thousands of productive hours are lost to network security breaches and malicious attacks. One of the critical lines of defense against such attacks is...
Provided by: D-Link
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Easily Cleanup Firewall Clutter: Work More Effectively and Extend Your Hardware's Lifespan
December 17, 2008 12:00am PST
In light of the current economic climate, organizations are increasingly seeking ways to maximize their infrastructure to receive a better return on their technology investments. In addition to...
Provided by: AlgoSec
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