You can configure outbound filtering to provide an additional layer of security — at little extra cost. Many decried the Windows Vista firewall as broken when Microsoft released the operating system ...

Do note that you have to launch Windows PowerShell as an administrator, otherwise, the commands will not execute and you will receive an error in PowerShell. Let’s ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that organizations rely on to protect ...

Network firewalls are one of the mainstay security controls that organizations rely on to protect their networks. These sentinels stand guard at the network perimeter and screen the packets entering ...

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Two research studies have shown there is a direct correlation between firewall rule set complexity and the likelihood of configuration errors. One study shows most firewalls are badly configured and ...

I'm experimenting with virtual networks in Azure, and I'm unclear about what outbound versus inbound traffic means (as it relates to network security groups and rules). For example, suppose I have a ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...