Recently, the discussion surrounding application visibility and control provided by next-generation firewalls has become deafening. Now, every stateful inspection based firewall vendor is calling themselves a next-generation firewall that can identify and control applications. A remarkable feat, given that they are all still using port and protocol as the primary traffic classification mechanism and that [...]

Gartner’s recent forecast analysis for Software-as-a-Service observes that Web-based office suites such as Google Apps (including Google Docs) will coexist with traditional office suites as business users will find them appropriate for real-time collaboration or as secondary online tools for taking notes. Google claims that over 3000 businesses sign-up for its Google Apps daily. Moreover, [...]

We have added a new video that introduces the key security concerns swirling around BitTorrent and specifically how to manage the risks that this incredibly popular application brings to your networks. We will cover how BitTorrent has evolved to avoid detection by traditional firewalls and IPS, how hackers are using BitTorrent to control malware, and [...]