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Firewall

The legal barrier between banking and broker/dealer operations within a financial institution created to prevent the exchange of inside information.

Chinese Wall

Informal; the imposed lack of communication between the investment banking and brokerage services of a financial institution. The Chinese wall exists in order to prevent brokers and investment bankers working for the same company from deliberately or accidentally sharing inside information that could lead to illegal insider trading. The Chinese wall protects both the financial institution at large and the individual investment bankers and brokers.

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"Sophos can identify this traffic because the endpoint knows exactly what applications are running and it can share this data with the firewall through the Sophos Security Heartbeat.

Sophos XG Firewall Delivers a Breakthrough in Network Visibility with Synchronized App Control

Application control goes deeper with detailed usage reports, while change management, security reporting, event trends, and a detailed compliance report for firewall configuration creates an immediate ROI for customers to present back to their stakeholders."

ManageEngine now WatchGuard Gold Technology Alliance Partner

FireMon have announced the release of its 2016 State of the Firewall Report.

Firewalls are a key measure to securing cloud services

There is no software to download and configure and the Tiny Hardware Firewall protects mobile devices from hacking attempts and encrypts all of the users traffic.

WiFiConsulting, Inc. Unveils Tor and a VPN Client on a Tiny Hardware Firewall

In this paper, we perform a quantitative analysis to record the impact of a firewall deployed in a network.

A quantitative analysis of firewall impact on critical data communication

"In the case of an SMB or a mid-size organisation then probably they might need to replace existing firewalls and IPS.

Next gen security

Even though any networking novice will tell you that automated firewall policy analysis is now possible, the use of a manual approach is not only cumbersome and time-consuming, it also begs the question as to how accurate a manual analysis can be.

Manually auditing firewalls - the big hidden cost!

* We reduced the unnecessary cost of rule comparisons to find policy anomalies in firewalls. The proposed method classifies rules of all firewalls into two categories, rules for incoming traffic and rules for outgoing traffic.

Classifying rules by in-out traffic direction to avoid security policy anomaly

While companies pay a lot of attention to the firewalls selection process, and invest millions in acquiring it, much less attention and resources are invested in making sure the firewalls are optimized at all times for potential security risks and compliance breaches.

Survey reveals that 1 in 10 IT professionals admit to cheating on an IT audit!

Another new capability, Rule Consolidation Analysis, enables the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer to detect similar rules that can be consolidated into one rule, allowing administrators to minimise the firewall policy.

AlgoSec launches AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer 5.3

The NETGEAR ProSafe Wireless VPN Firewalls are comprehensive network security products that combine a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, 802.11g wireless access point, support for multiple IPSec VPN connections, NAT router, and 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch to provide a robust, complete network security solution for growing small and medium businesses.

NETGEAR WINS AWARD FOR ADSL MODEM ROUTER & MBPS SWITCH

The MESHnet Firewall platform runs Secure Computing's Sidewinder firewall, which provides the following features necessary for this type of deployment: