Security orchestration methods, and of course SDN, are driving the need for programmable interfaces in security products. The Cisco ASA Firewall added a REST API back in December with the 9.3(2) code ...

I have to say first of all I'm not a networking expert. I work at a large university that is centralizing its IT. As such, when a department on boards their IT, the desktop support team - which I am ...

BLACK HAT USA — Las Vegas — Cisco's enterprise-class firewalls have at least a dozen vulnerabilities — four of which have been assigned CVE identifiers — that could allow attackers to infiltrate ...

This chapter looks at the management of firewalls. From the perspective of the small office/home user, the firewall is a single device that protects the home network from malicious traffic—it keeps ...