Understanding the stateful firewall vs stateless firewall distinction will help you decide on the best strategy for protecting your network. A stateful firewall keeps track of the state of network ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Firewalls have historically formed the ...

Two months ago, we published Everything you need to know about IPv6, telling you the following about firewalling IPv6 in relationship to the Network Address Translation that is common in today's IPv4 ...

A stateless firewall is an efficient, low-maintenance way to screen lots of network traffic quickly — but there are a few important drawbacks. In networking, “state” refers to the context or session ...

Security continues to be the biggest concern for IT managers and, in turn, design engineers developing firewall systems. With more viruses popping up and hackers attacking more often, corporations are ...

Version 2.6.12 of the Linux kernel is likely to include packet filtering that will work with IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol. Netfilter/iptables, the firewall engine that is part of ...