Security

The First Line of Defense

Posted by Chris Engler on June 21, 2010 at 8:17 am

A network firewall is a standard necessity for any small business.  Firewalls guard network connections, and they do this in several ways.  All firewalls operate on this one basic premise: they block and allow traffic based on a set of predefined rules.  More advanced firewalls perform deep scans of the traffic going in and out [...]