In essence, the differences between the two focus on three main areas: Focus - antivirus focuses on internal threats (virus, malware); firewall focuses on external threats through traffic management ...

Host-based firewalls play a vital role in securing individual endpoints. This level of protection is critical as business networks increasingly accommodate remote workers and cloud applications.

While you'll be doing most of your home lab experimentation in VLANs, there is one specific VLAN to set up that never gets touched past the initial setup stages. That's a dedicated Management VLAN, ...

For home networks, most people already have a router with a built-in firewall. Under normal circumstances, they don’t need to get an extra firewall to keep their network safe.

Physical firewalls are still quite popular, particularly for businesses without a lot of different locations and without a lot of remote workers. They even have some advantages over FWaaS, like ...

Firewall policies and rules are the engine that make firewalls go. Most security professionals are terrified of removing older policies because they don’t know when they were put in place or why.

Nothing comes out of the box. For network firewalls to join the automation movement, we need to start by automating the migration of physical to virtual ones.

Today’s firewall needs to be built on network virtualization (NV). Trying to secure every interconnection point in a vast network could be an exercise in whack-a-mole—and a costly one.

We have a single physical firewall that handles all zones. We're moving towards a model in which we consider *all* zones untrusted to one extent or another, then make use of host-based firewalls ...