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How do you test firewall changes? Firewalls help us keep intruders our of our networks and precious data in them, and changes to those safeguards can be precarious to say the least. To minimize the likelihood that a change will cause some sort of problem -- such as creating a hole in our defenses or blocking a critical…
Firewalls play an important role in ensuring your network's security. They prevent unauthorized traffic from entering or exiting your secure network to help avoid infection from viruses, unintentional data loss, or access to sensitive data by unwanted outsiders. In order to maintain a high level of security, it's important…
I try to avoid writing blog posts that are strictly related to our products at SolarWinds, but as I was recently conceptualizing some content for our newest product, Firewall Security Manager, I learned something that's just too good not to share. FSM came to us when we acquired Athena Security a few months back. This…
How do you manage your firewall rulesets? Over time, firewall configuration files can become overrun with rules, and thus become large and complicated. It's not unusual for firewalls to have thousands of rules, and many of those are liable to be rendered obsolete by new rules as network and security teams add new rules to…
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) requires companies that process credit or debit card transactions to comply with 6 control objectives outlined in their Data Security Standard (DSS). These 6 objectives are: * Build and maintain and secure network * Protect cardholder data * Maintain a vulnerability management program *…
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