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Why bother with firewalls?

IT Toolbox

I get the purpose of firewalls. Every modern operating system has firewalls installed by default these days and even the average modem has a firewall built in. They are supposed to block people and connections from doing things they are not supposed to do.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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Dangerous nostalgia: Taking Windows XP online will result in auto-installed viruses in a matter of minutes

TechSpot

To prove how dangerous it can be to use old and deprecated operating systems without any antivirus program, firewall or routers in 2024, YouTuber Eric Parker performed a proof-of-concept experiment by setting up a Windows XP virtual machine with an unsecured internet connection.

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Remote code execution is possible by exploiting flaws in Vxworks

Network World

Eleven zero-day vulnerabilities in WindRiver’s VxWorks, a real-time operating system in use across an advertised 2 billion connected devices have been discovered by network security vendor Armis. How the internet of things works. How the internet of things works. Most powerful Internet of Things companies.

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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

Firewall Network firewalls were created as the primary perimeter defense for most organizations, but since its creation the technology has spawned many iterations: proxy, stateful, Web app, next-generation. It includes the operating system, programming languages, database and other development tools.

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We’re in the Unified SASE Era. What’s next?

Network World

First era of network security: The stateful firewall In the beginning, networking was created on the principle of trusting everyone and connecting everything as fast as possible. In the mid-1990s, the industry’s response was to create the stateful firewall, designed to control access to private networks.

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How to choose a flexible unified SASE solution

Network World

Because SASE connects and protects the entire hybrid network, most organizations don’t deploy the entire solution at once; instead, they start with a use case, like introducing zero trust or securing internet access, and build from there. Doing so simplifies expanding your SASE deployment and ensures you won’t have to use multiple agents.

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