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More security, more features, and easier to expand your 'home lab' -- not to mention how much you can learn about networking. Do you like fiddling with computers and fancy the idea of taking on a more ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that organizations rely on to protect ...

It is critical to compare the roles of inbound and outbound firewall rules before deploying a corporate firewall to ensure it properly secures an enterprise IT environment. Inbound traffic originates ...

Pretty much all home routers already reject unsolicited connections from the internet, but that’s only half of a firewall’s job. Devices like Smart TVs, cameras, home appliances that talk to you, and ...

Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that organizations rely on to protect their networks. These sentinels stand guard at the network perimeter and screen the packets entering ...

To properly protect your network, you need to know who and what has access to your network, and where all sensitive information is located. To better control access, start by limiting the devices that ...

Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of ...

If you're ignoring or have disabled Windows Firewall, you might be missing out on some good, basic protections that are easy to set up and maintain. Windows Firewall has been enabled by default since ...