SPOF best practices
What are the best practices for eliminating single points of failure (SPOF) in a network? What are the most common ways to eliminate them?

Answer Question   |  June 29, 2009  9:03 PM
Network hardware, Network management, Network Topology, Single Point of Failure, SPOF

Defense in depth and unified threat management appliances
Experts tout unified threat management appliances as an ideal antimalware, intrusion prevention and content filtering firewall for midmarket companies. But doesn’t this counter the long-standing security practice of defense-in-depth? With a one vendor, platform, and management console, aren’t we talking about a dangerous single point of failure? When is UTM good enough? When should we [...]

Answer Question   |  May 8, 2009  7:01 PM
Defense in Depth, Intrusion detection, Midmarket security, Single Point of Failure, Unified Threat Management