When we tested four next-gen firewalls strictly on performance, we found that the products could forward packets at impressive rates, but throughput dropped when advanced security features were turned ...

Today’s next-generation firewalls are “application aware” but they aren’t aware of the connectivity needs among applications. It’s common for a change in a firewall rule for one application to break ...

To address the emerging threats around generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) systems and applications, cybersecurity provider Securiti has launched a firewall offering for large language models ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is needed to protect web applications and APIs from cyber threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other malicious attacks. With cyberattacks on web ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is a critical component of an enterprise security infrastructure, providing a key security layer for web-facing applications and APIs. As web applications mature and ...

In my last column, I sang the praises of application-layer proxy firewalls and introduced Balazs Scheidler's Zorp firewall suite, available in both commercial and free-of-charge versions. This column ...