You hear about firewalls in reference to computer hacking when you watch espionage movies, but what is a firewall? It is, in essence, a security device that walls off your network from outside intrusion. A firewall exists in front of every corporate network, blocking access to internal resources and acting as a sentry for the more
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What is a Firewall and what does it do?
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Legitimate Needs For Firewall Traversal
When it comes to cyber security, many people and corporations are justifiably nervous about any type of firewall traversal technology, software, or individual requests for network access. However, firewall traversal is absolutely necessary for certain cross network applications to function, such as VOIP or similar types of web conferencing technology. In addition, accessing a corporate more
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Configure Proxy Settings? What Is This?
When it comes to cyber security, many of us have heard of the extra protection that proxy servers can provide. If you wish to set up your internet browser to configure proxy servers and their settings, nearly all commonly used browsers today have made this task fairly easy. No longer do you have to have more
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Firewall Technology And You
When it comes to cyber security, most of us are already familiar with antivirus, anti malware, and anti spyware programs that keep various and sundry types of online nastiness off of our computer systems. However, a good firewall is also an integral part of any cyber security suite, as it protects against active and passive more
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What Is A VPN?
VPN is not an acronym that most people see every day. However, its meaning and function can be explained relatively quickly and easily. VPN simply stands for virtual private network, which is typically used as a sort of intranet function by many companies. A VPN network is basically just a private network that various users, more
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Proxy Server Configuration
As you likely know by now, a proxy server is basically an online security barrier that reroutes your data, queries, responses, et cetera made online before retrieving the information you need from your network. This obfuscation of the origins and destinations of the data you request, send, and download every day can be protected from more
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Proxy servers offer classic system protection
What is a proxy server, and what can it do? Mainly, a proxy server is a purpose built application that filters how your end user machines access the web. There are a couple different ways a proxy server can filter and regulate data flow from inside your network to the outside world. For those who more
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The benefits of Firewall Testing
Despite the common belief that once you’ve installed a firewall onto your computer you can breath freely, the battle is not yet over. Firewall testing is necessary to keep everything in check and operating smoothly. First though, in order to understand why firewall testing is even needed one must understand what is a firewall. A more
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Uses of A Proxy Server
A proxy server is an online tool that is generally used to mask a request made by a given computer system. Think of a proxy server as an online intermediary for any kind of online request, be it for web pages, files, et cetera. A proxy server is generally used for a vast variety of more
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All network sizes can benefit from firewall testing
Would you trust the security of your network to a firewall that has not undergone firewall testing? It happens all too often. Smaller offices without dedicate IT staff often sit behind smaller firewalls, even home grade devices. These work fine for most basic needs, but are they secure? It is possible to secure a home more
