With Wireless LANs becoming mainstream, organizations want to tightly integrate Wireless LANs with wired LANs. Network managers are reluctant or unwilling to deploy Wireless LANs unless those LANs ...

The freedom of wireless networking is enticing, but the accompanying risks are daunting. If you're running a wireless LAN on the 802.11 standards, you may think your organization is secure. Think ...

Access-control lists, originally designed for routers to deny or admit packets entering a network from a WAN, have drawbacks in controlling a diverse group of users accessing LANs. ACLs have no ...

The LAN has emerged as a security risk, subject to insider misuse as well as external attacks. Threats can arise from rogue hosts on wireless, guests plugging into open ports in a conference room, ...

Several barriers have stalled widespread adoption of LAN edge security, some users say. But as features such as access control lists (ACL) and 802.1x become standard in many vendors’ products, some ...

Check Point unveils its Agentic Network Security Orchestration Platform, using AI agents to automate policy management, ...

This is the second article in our spotlight on the evolution of the SGi/Gi-LAN, a core element in today’s mobile networks. Faced with an explosion of mobile devices and a shift in traffic patterns ...

Nord Security, a global cybersecurity powerhouse, proudly announces a partnership with Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, to unite network and endpoint security management for managed ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) we know today starts simply, with a switch connecting a computer to the network. But that inevitably gets more complex as you add routers and the occasional firewall to ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. — Newcomer security specialist Nevis Networks Inc. has elected to bypass the multicore security processors hitting the market in favor of its own 15 million-gate ASIC. The ...