Firewalls

61

4

Choosing the Right Firewall

4.1 Chapter objectives

■ Methods of hacking

■ Secure content management

■ Understanding the avenues of attack

■ Adapting to change

■ Firewall product reviews

As the topology and “threatscape” of modern networks becomes

increasingly complex, enterprise and administrative resources have

become stretched ever thinner. Corporations and businesses are

increasingly reliant on both the internal resources of the network as

well as on external communications for day-to-day business func-

tions. More and more of these functions are relegated to automation,

with things like faxing, scanning, and document management inte-

grating with network ...