There are definitely security benefits to being behind a firewall while you browse the web. Intrusion is more difficult from direct access to your computer through open ports and from being scanned from outside parties. Still, the content of web sites can be designed to damage your computer through its web browser and a firewall more
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The security benefits of a proxy server
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Firewall testing choices and concerns
If you are concerned about the security of your network, then you have probably considered firewall testing. If you do not know anything about firewall testing, do not worry, there are simple steps you can take to make sure that your firewall is doing what it is intended to do: That is, prevent unauthorized access more
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Do firewall testing yourself, or hire help?
When I first decided to add an upgraded firewall to my network, I wanted to figure out some way of firewall testing. I assumed that there was a way to run a program on it internally that would just look at the rule sets and tell me if I had misconfigured anything before we went more
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Firewall testing: A key security step
Anyone who sits behind a firewall has a reasonable expectation of security, that they are protected from intrusion via exposed ports and that their system is safe from attack. Which is true for the most part, but to assume that the firewall is configured as tightly as possible without performing some level of firewall testing more
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What Are The Functions Of A Proxy Server
You may have heard the term proxy server being used by people who are familiar with information technology and the internet and you may be wondering what they are talking about. Well what a proxy server does is that it handles client’s request for services from another computer. The client sends a request to the more
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Protect your network and your your job through regular firewall testing
As changes are made to a firewall configuration, firewall testing should be the final step to ensuring that the changes put in place have not created an opening in your security scheme. Even a simple change that might seem innocuous can potentially present a hole an attacker can use to gain access to your systems. more
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Firewall Testing Imperative For The Integrity Of The Systems
Firewall is a very important element for a computer system. In today’s world where computer systems are facing an increasing threat from intrusions of hackers, firewall provides the system with the necessary security. Because of so much is hinging on the firewall providing us the security, it is imperative that the firewall is correctly performing more
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Customizing proxy server configuration
How your end users access the internet depends entirely on your proxy server configuration; this assumes that a proxy server is in use to regulate and filter access to the web. A typical proxy server configuration enables monitoring of the sites viewed by users, specifying which sites each IP address has visited by logging entries more
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Advantages to using a proxy server
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Security and the need for firewall testing
The first and main line of defense for your network is your firewall. It is controlled by a complex set of rules and settings that tell it what traffic to allow of the thousands of transactions that come in every minute. There are custom configurations that tell it what ports are allowed to what networks more
