Dark Reading: 5 Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Your Firewall

Despite concerns over the effectiveness of perimeter technologies, firewalls remain a staple in the enterprise security arsenal.

12/29/2015
By Jai Vijayan

Firewalls have been an integral part of the enterprise security portfolio almost from the time organizations first began putting up controls to protect network resources. Despite growing questions about how effective they really are in blocking advanced persistent threats and other emerging attack methods, many organizations still consider firewall technologies to be the most effective first line of defense against intruders.

Increasingly though, the effort is to make the firewall part of a broader multi-layered perimeter defense that includes technologies like sandboxing, security information and event management tools, and log event coordination systems.

Here are some key ways to get the most out of your firewall technologies amid today's rapidly change threat environment:

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