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Friday, December 14, 2007

How to manage multivendor firewalls like a pro; Trojan robbing online bank customers

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How to manage your multivendor firewalls like a pro

Tim Greene By Tim Greene
Auditing firewalls to keep regulators happy and tracking rule changes - especially for businesses buying firewalls (compare products) from multiple vendors - is a burden that a variety of third-party software can lighten dramatically. Read full story

Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering network access control, virtual private networking gear, remote access, WAN acceleration and aspects of VoIP technology. You can reach him at tgreene@nww.com.

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