ABOUT A DECADE AGO, I learned the hard way why protecting the desktop is one of the most difficult tasks. A virus infection came into our shop through an outside contractor, and it spread everywhere.

Continuing its security-technology buying spree, Computer Associates on Monday announced that it is buying Tiny Software, a desktop firewall software maker, for an undisclosed sum. Computer Associates ...

Other things have changed, too. Today, standalone firewall products are more the exception than the rule. I took a look at five major firewalls on the market today, and almost everything that came my ...

COMMENTARY--Anyone who reads my column on a regular basis knows that I loathe to focus too much on new technology or products as an answer to security concerns. Even I recognize, however, the ...

In the face of competition from security suite vendors, Kerio Technologies will pull the plug on its popular desktop firewall product at the end of this year. Kerio will stop offering its Kerio ...

In Part 1 of this tutorial series, we configured Windows to accept remote desktop connections, so we can log into and use a PC anywhere in the World with Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection client ...

Firewalls, both hardware and software, protect computers from hackers and other online threats by blocking dangerous pieces of data from reaching the system. While hardware firewalls offer ...

A firewall is merely the first line of defense for any system’s security. As such, one should not rely solely on its ability to stop all the potential threats floating on the Internet. All sorts of ...