Firewall news stories

The company earned the highest overall customer rating among vendors with at least 150 verified customer reviews.

"The native AWS experience and the proliferation of AWS native services have given organisations the tools they needed to embrace the cloud."

Zero-day attacks can be detrimental to a business or enterprise, and they most commonly occur due to a lack of preparation and the right technology by cybersecurity teams.

In the fourth update in our SonicWall series we are joined by Mallik Vatti, who is the director of product management for the company.

The education and research sector was the hardest hit, averaging 1,605 attacks per week, with government organisations, communications companies and internet service providers close behind."

This week we start the first of our SonicWall IT Jam series, speaking with sales director ASEAN Sales SooHan Bai.

Cyber security firm Check Point Software Technologies has announced the extension of the Check Point Quantum portfolio.

Avast has announced a new firewall will be packaged with its latest free and premium product updates for Windows.

The widely-used java logging library, log4j, has been actively exploited, according to an update from CERT NZ and Catalyst.

The announcement marks the first time that Gartner has recognised Alibaba Cloud as a Challenger in the field of network firewalls.

Cloudflare has announced it is expanding its Zero Trust firewall capabilities while also revealing a new program to help customers migrate from legacy hardware to the Cloudflare One suite of Zero Trust solutions.

A vulnerability in Cisco security devices is dangerous for business processes in large companies.

Fortinet delivers what it says is the industry's first next-generation firewall and secure SD-WAN integration with Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN. 

It is the twelfth time the company has been recognised in this Magic Quadrant.

“This year’s recognition solidifies our position as a leader in delivering a hybrid data centre security architecture."

SonicWall’s Bill Conner has declared that organisations should no longer change the way they operate just to secure their networks, devices and people.

Designed for small and midsize businesses, the firewalls deliver increased security and faster performance when compared to previous mid-range Firebox appliances, and have the processing power to handle encrypted and HTTPS traffic.

According to Palo Alto Networks, there are four key elements of a machine learning-powered next-generation firewall (NGFW).

"Securing critical digital assets is absolutely essential," says the company.

In this interview we chat about channel partners, what's new, and why security staples like next-generation firewalls, Zero Trust and SD-WAN remain a core part of the company's channel activities.

Fortinet’s CMO and EVP of products, John Maddison, says the product combines high performance, integrated networking, and security for hybrid data centres.

"The sheer amount of traffic and potential threats can ensnare resources and impact the ability to introduce greater precision to those key systems."

New Firebox M Series appliances provide flexible security for organisations managing the increased shift to remote workforces.

“Enterprises are increasingly looking to integrate both native cloud security and Fortinet’s enterprise-class cloud security offerings to protect their workloads on AWS."