For many people network security starts and stops with firewalls. The foundational technology of perimeter based security, firewalls have grown more complex and sophisticated over the years. Today ...

Several readers commenting on last week’s newsletter about Vyatta, an open source routing company, said this approach sounded similar to several other open source network device projects. Vyatta uses ...

pfSense and OPNsense are open-source firewall and router operating systems that share a common lineage but have diverged in philosophy and development over the years. pfSense originated as a fork of ...

There's a good chance you're using a router from your internet service provider (ISP), but did you know it's easy to build your own firewall? Attach a switch and access point, and you'll have a ...

Despite their reputation for sometimes being substandard, open-source security products are becoming more technologically sophisticated, on par with some of the most advanced data security products on ...

In the winter of 2000, the company&'s founders developed an open-source firewall called SmoothWall GPL Open Source. Within a few months, over 70,000 copies of the software had been downloaded, and in ...

The firewall is one of the most important security features in a computer environment. In the classic sense, a firewall is set up on an appliance, such as a computer that fulfills just a single, ...