Network World

Firewall Configurations Can Be Hard To Manage, Sounds Like A Job For Open Source

For many people network security starts and stops with firewalls. The foundational technology of perimeter based security, firewalls have grown more complex and sophisticated over the years. Today ...
How-To Geek on MSN

I switched to an open-source router and there's no turning back, here's why

Open-source routers come with many benefits. These are the ones I find the most compelling.
Network World

Open source firewall company ModSecurity gets acquired

Breach Security will acquire Thinking Stone, which develops and provides support for an open source Web application firewall called ModSecurity, the companies announced Monday. Thinking Stone, based ...
CRN

10 Open-Source Security Products You Can Download Now

Despite their reputation for sometimes being substandard, open-source security products are becoming more technologically sophisticated, on par with some of the most advanced data security products on ...
CRN

Firewall Maker Crosses The Pond To Expand Its Channel

In the winter of 2000, the company&'s founders developed an open-source firewall called SmoothWall GPL Open Source. Within a few months, over 70,000 copies of the software had been downloaded, and in ...
Computerworld

Open-source firewall company ModSecurity gets acquired

Breach Security Inc. will acquire Thinking Stone Ltd., which develops and provides support for an open-source Web application firewall called ModSecurity, the companies announced Monday. Thinking ...