http://www.networkworld.com/topics/firewalls.html The latest firewall news, analysis and reviews on NetworkWorld.com. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/071009-news-analysis-ddos-attacks-highlight.html The network attacks that severely disrupted several federal agency Web sites this week highlights the need for the government to quickly finish implementing its ongoing consolidation of Internet access points, the former de facto CIO of the federal government and others said today. Jaikumar Vijayan 2009-07-10T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070909-us-south-korea-cyberattack-lessons.html Investigators may not yet know who was behind a series of cyberattacks on the U.S. and South Korea, but analysts are getting a better grasp on where the nations' governments may have gone wrong. Numerous government Web sites in both countries have been hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks, starting on the Fourth of July and continuing into today. Dozens of high-profile sites have been Jr Raphael 2009-07-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070809-the-us-south-korea-cyberattack-how.html It sounds like an advanced operation: Hackers hit dozens of high-profile Web sites, knocking the Federal Trade Commission and other government groups completely offline. Days later, South Korea gets a wave of the same treatment. Jr Raphael 2009-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/070809antonopoulos.html All things, good and bad, eventually come to an end. Philosophers have told us this in many variations for at least three or four thousand years. In IT we seem to have exquisitely intricate plans for starting new things: projects, applications, users, policies. Yet we seem to always forget to plan for their eventual end: the closure of projects, the removal of applications, the retirement of servers and the departure of users. Why do we find it so hard to achieve closure? Andreas M. Antonopoulos 2009-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/070609-app-demystifies-windows-7-built-in.html Want fine-grained control over the firewall built into Windows 7 and Windows Vista--especially the way it blocks outbound connections? Good luck. Even if you manage to unearth the controls buried deep in Windows menus and applications, you'll be baffled. Windows 7 Firewall Control Free solves the problem for you. Preston Gralla 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-complex-firewalls-cost-money-says.html Most organisations are getting a poor return on their investments in firewalls due to the complex issues in managing them. This is despite the fact that enterprises are facing on average 300 network attacks every year. Tom Jowitt 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-network-managers-mistakes.html When you look at the worst corporate security breaches, it's clear that network managers keep making the same mistakes over and over again, and that many of these mistakes are easy to avoid. Carolyn Duffy Marsan 2009-07-05T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070109-small-business-network-security.html Today more than ever, good network security is vital to businesses of all sizes. Cybercriminals, equipped with sophisticated software that automates the task of seeking out vulnerabilities, aren't focusing on large enterprises alone; any easy target will do. Fortunately, however, good security isn't as expensive or as complicated to implement as it used to be. Yardena Arar 2009-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/063009-iceman-pleads-guilty-to-massive.html Max Ray Butler, a hacker known as the "Iceman," pleaded guilty to breaking into numerous financial institutions and card-processing networks and stealing credit card and identity data on hundreds of thousands of individuals. Jaikumar Vijayan 2009-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/063009-tufin-tool-automates-firewall.html Israeli security outfit Tufin has added an automatic policy generator (APG) to its SecureTrack firewall analysis system. The new feature lets admins plan firewall deployments based on the traffic actually passing across their networks. John E. Dunn 2009-06-30T12:00:00-04:00