Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Does your firewall rulebase remind you of that drawer in your kitchen where you throw all ...

I've been looking at ways to implement redundancy at the edge of a small business network (dual ISPs, dual firewalls). One particular setup has 2 ISPs followed by 2 switches that branch off into 2 ...

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...

The use of a multi-layer dual firewall topology is relatively new in network security, but it is rapidly gaining in popularity. In many respects, a dual firewall topology is similar to that of an ...

Due to consolidation in the firewall industry as well as development of next-generation firewalls, it is possible today for the network security designer to acquire a bundled multi-layer dual firewall ...