Security continues to be the biggest concern for IT managers and, in turn, design engineers developing firewall systems. With more viruses popping up and hackers attacking more often, corporations are ...

Stateful firewalls, like the PIX sound pretty impressive, and they are but they are not without their drawbacks as well. They do offer speed and transparency but remember, a packet has to make its way ...

Packets hit key steps as they move through flow-processing engines used in applications that require 40 Gbits/s of stateful deep packet inspection, for example. LF: What is flow processing? JS: As the ...