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Firewalls: Expensive, Broken Routers

In a previous post on IPS, I made a fairly negative comment on the value that you get from enterprise firewalls in the modern environment. At the time, I said that I was just going leave that comment hanging and see what happened. Well, precisely no one challenged me on it, which means either everybody […]

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Neil Anderson

Neil is a freelance network security architect and contractor working with a number of clients in Scotland and Europe. He is CCIE #18705 and also holds a CISSP. He can often be found sampling beer in remote locations and ranting about tech to anyone too stupid to run away. If you're very unlucky, he may talk to you in Gaelic.

Neil can be occasionally be found on Twitter.

The post Firewalls: Expensive, Broken Routers appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Neil Anderson.

NetCitadel and Software Defined Security

It’s been an exciting couple of weeks in the security realm, with a number of innovative startups appearing. That’s refreshing because recently most “innovation” in the security space has been something involving a new way of marketing a signature or reputation based system – and that’s just a bit rubbish, and not a little tiresome. Most […]

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Neil Anderson

Neil is a freelance network security architect and contractor working with a number of clients in Scotland and Europe. He is CCIE #18705 and also holds a CISSP. He can often be found sampling beer in remote locations and ranting about tech to anyone too stupid to run away. If you're very unlucky, he may talk to you in Gaelic.

Neil can be occasionally be found on Twitter.

The post NetCitadel and Software Defined Security appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Neil Anderson.