Common Content Inspection will enable anti-virus software and scanning products to easily interoperate with firewalls, virtual private networks, routers and other security devices. According to the CCI-API developers group, the API "is intended to...
Microsoft has finally released a full patch for the vulnerability in the Simple Network Message Protocol revealed by CERT almost one month ago. Microsoft originally released a work-around for the problem on 12 February but yesterday updated this...
What's sad to me is that firewalls could _ALMOST_ be enough except that the vision of firewall designers ended with 'fast packet inspection' and never went further. The only reason we have an intrusion detection product market at all is because the...
Stateful inspection of inbound vulnerabilities is not Check Point's or NetScreen's main focus," he said. Firewalls and proxy servers are the second-most commonly used antivirus technology, employed by 90.8 per cent of respondents.
Network devices will have the ability to tear apart packets, block malicious code, enforce policies and filter content up and down the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) stack. This means that the network will perform the same functions that...
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) scheme is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry, according to Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of UK charity Computer Aid International.