In today's open source roundup: Six GUI firewall management applications in Linux. Plus: Linux Lite 2.2 released, and the story of how Kali Linux was created The command line is a powerful tool for ...

When it comes to firewalls, most system administrators prefer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) rather than a command-line interface (CLI), a new academic study published over the summer has ...

Linux firewalls can be very complicated. With the help of a GUI, firewall configuration is easier. These GUIs are easy to install and free to use. A firewall is often the heart and soul of desktop ...

We just got a new Juniper SSG-140 firewall. I've never worked with these things before. My experience is with Cisco and, to some extent, Sonicwall, so you'll have to bear with me as I am still ...

This chapter looks at the management of firewalls. From the perspective of the small office/home user, the firewall is a single device that protects the home network from malicious traffic—it keeps ...

Back in 2003, m0n0wall started as a GUI to manage a firewall. Manuel Kasper, its developer, once said that no option out there "met all [his] requirements", and he created m0n0wall as a result. Later, ...

Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of ...