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 ...

Second dumb question, if I use an L3 managed switch, can I get rid of the 'Router, Firewall, DHCP' box in my network topology diagram? 1. I don't know that particular switch, but I'd be surprised ...

OpenFlow is centralizing the control plan but leaves the forwarding and data planes distributed across the network topology. Firewall architectures have changed over the past 20 years. Firewalls ...

In service chaining virtualized services (firewalls, loadbalancers) are decoupled from the network topology allowing the data path to be programmed and each service to be inserted and removed ...

As organizations adopt multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies, networks are becoming more complex. Enterprise network managing teams typically rely on multiple tools to monitor and troubleshoot ...

I've been writing a multipart series on building a transparent (bridging) firewall using Linux. Specifically, I'm using the distribution OpenWrt running on a Linksys WRT54GL broadband router, a ...

Virtualization also provides insight into the topology and components ... now be extended with the Service-Defined Firewall, running in VMware’s NSX network virtualization software, to ...