It’s fairly often that a client will call and suggest that a software or hardware vendor needs them to “open a port” for their product to work. This is at best a misleading request and at worst a meaningless request as far as most smaller businesses...
Firewalls have become ubiquitous across enterprises over the past decade, but the combination of new and varied access methods combined with increasingly sophisticated attacks has forced network operators and security professionals to constantly evaluate their...
Ever get asked to explain or elaborate on something that you should definitely know, only to realize that you don’t fully understand it yourself? You’re certainly not alone. Even though the basics of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections are one of the very...