Five Key Things to Know About the Security of Your Networking Gear
by Kyle FlahertyLate yesterday the site ThreatPost put up an article from our CTO Dennis Cox titled, "The Five Key Things to Know About the Security of Your Networking Gear". The piece provided five things people can do before they deploy their next piece of network equipment to make sure it will work properly in the real-world. I've provided a snippet from the article below and urge you to read it in its entirety:
Measuring the performance and security of your network equipment has never been more important than it is today. While there will always be tradeoffs between maximum throughput and maximum security, I want to emphasize the “and” in “performance and security.” Your devices must perform while remaining secure, and you can’t afford to be lax about either part of that formula.
The big hurdle: today’s network equipment no longer looks at packets blindly. Instead it makes decisions based not on only the transport layer (TCP/UDP) but also on what’s happening at the application layer. This evolution of network equipment keeps network engineers up at night, on weekends, and on major holidays. It’s no easy task to identify weaknesses in software, so now imagine doing it in hardware. To help overcome this challenge I want to share five things you can do before buying that next piece of network gear. To make the lesson more pointed, let’s take the prime example of buying a new firewall, since the stakes for that are so high in terms of both performance and security.
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