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 ...

The best free Linux firewalls make it simple and easy for you to better manage network security on your Linux distros. A dedicated firewall stands between the internet and your network, in order to ...

SolutionBase: Use the Web interface to configure and monitor an IPCop firewall Your email has been sent Get a thorough walk-through of the IPCop Web interface, as well as some configuration and ...

Instead of using Linux, OPNsense is powered by HardenedBSD, which is a security oriented fork of FreeBSD. The firewall distro is designed to serve as a firewall and routing platform and besides ...

Dear readers, I appear to have set a Paranoid Penguin record—six months spent on one article series. (It has consisted of five installments, with a one-month break between the second and third pieces.

When I started writing this column in autumn of 2000, I had the day job of firewall engineer. I enjoyed that type of work, but I was enough of a big-picture kind of guy to be aware that every year, ...