When it comes to choosing a firewall for your PC, there are several considerations to take into account. First, if possible, you should always try to install any firewall program as a bundled program suite, along with a reputable antivirus and anti spyware program from the same company. While you can indeed find these items more
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Choosing A Firewall for Your PC
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Proxy Server Configuration and You
The security and privacy benefits afforded by a proxy server have long been known to the world of internet users at large. However, some people are still a bit trepidatious about using a third party server to surf the web, although proxy server configuration with nearly all common browsers today has been made incredibly easy. more
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Choices made regarding ways to configure proxy
If a proxy server is being used to divide up an internet connection across a network, there are many ways to configure proxy to improve the security and policy enforcement needs of a corporate network. In the layouts I have seen, the network engineers have chosen to configure proxy to act as a traffic monitor more
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Using a Proxy Server
Many people of varying computer skill levels have found the value of using a proxy server in order to surf the web to be priceless over the years. From a security standpoint, a proxy server acts like a buffer between your computers and other computers once you make a request for information, such as accessing more
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Using a Proxy Server
For many people running home and office networks big and small, the use of a proxy server has been an indispensable security boon for well over a decade now. The use of a proxy server acts as a buffer between the computers on a given network that are making a request, and the servers on more
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Use care when making proxy server configuration changes
Any time changes are made to a proxy server configuration, all the effects of the change need to be anticipated and taken into consideration before it is put into place. The proxy server exists to serve a body of computers and the associated users could be affected by proxy server configuration changes made since the more
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Practical use of a proxy server
The proxy server is no new idea, having been around for years providing networks the ability to split a single point of entry to the internet amongst all the client computers connected to the LAN. The need for this exists for a few different reasons. Firstly, each connection to the internet requires a unique IP more
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Firewall Testing Considerations
Cyber security is one of the perennially important issues in the day to day lives of just about anyone who has a computer. When it comes to installing and using protective software, firewalls, et cetera, few people actually bother to actively test these defenses after the initial download. If you are truly serious about keeping more
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Join the VPN revolution
Having a vpn connection back to an office is an essential standard of operation. The ability to connect to network resources remotely was a wonderful convenience when the technology first reached popular levels, but now, not having is debilitating to employees and denies them the same advantages commonly available at other companies. A vpn capability more
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A proxy server adds security and control to your shared internet connection
Maintaining control of the level of interactivity end users are allowed to have with the internet is a common directive among internal technology departments. The data flow needs to be regulated for liability and security reasons, and there are several ways this control can be maintained. Not to be overlooked, one of the oldest, most more
