firewall – Noise

Get better visibility for the WAF with payload logging

Paschal Obba — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

The WAF provides ways for our customers to gain insight into why it takes certain actions. The more granular and precise the insight, the more reproducible and understandable it is. Revamped payload logging is one such method.

Qotom 10Gbase-T Mini PC with Intel N355 Review

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:11:43 +0000

We review the new Qotom 10Gbase-T mini PC with the new Intel Core 3 N355 for low-cost firewall, router, and virtualization The post Qotom 10Gbase-T Mini PC with Intel N355 Review appeared first on ServeTheHome.

8-port 2.5GbE Intel Core Virtualization and Firewall Appliance Mini-Review

Eric Smith — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 17:00:03 +0000

We recently took a look at two new 2.5GbE virtualization and firewall appliances. The first one was a 4-port 2.5GbE and 2-port 10GbE SFP+ system that we already reviewed. Now, we are taking a look at the 8-port 2.5GbE version of the system just to comp...

New 4x 2.5GbE and 2x 10GbE Intel Core Firewall and Virtualization Appliance

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:00:26 +0000

We take a look at a 2x 10GbE and 4x 2.5GbE Intel Core firewall and virtualization appliance and see why it is one of the craziest out there The post New 4x 2.5GbE and 2x 10GbE Intel Core Firewall and Virtualization Appliance appeared first on ServeTheH...

Almost a Decade in the Making Our Fanless Intel i3-N305 2.5GbE Firewall Review

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:00:22 +0000

We review the biggest advancement in a decade in this fanless Intel Core i3-N305 fanless firewall review and see new storage features as well The post Almost a Decade in the Making Our Fanless Intel i3-N305 2.5GbE Firewall Review appeared first on Serv...

Fanless Intel N200 Firewall and Virtualization Appliance Review

Patrick Kennedy — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:00:33 +0000

We take a look at the fanless Intel N200 firewall and virtualization appliance to see how this quad 2.5GbE unit stacks up to the N100 option The post Fanless Intel N200 Firewall and Virtualization Appliance Review appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Fanless Intel N100 Firewall and Virtualization Appliance Review

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:30:14 +0000

We test the new Intel N100 Alder Lake-N 4x 2.5GbE fanless firewall and virtualization appliance with a massive generational performance jump The post Fanless Intel N100 Firewall and Virtualization Appliance Review appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Simplify management of Network Firewall rule groups with VPC managed prefix lists

Mojgan Toth — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:09:27 +0000

In this blog post, we will show you how to use managed prefix lists to simplify management of your AWS Network Firewall rules and policies across your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in the same AWS Region. AWS Network Firewall is a stateful, managed, network firewall and intrusion detection and prevention service for your […]

Fortinet FortiSP5 ASIC Launched

Rohit Kumar — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 03:23:02 +0000

The new Fortinet FortiSP5 is a custom ASIC designed to securely accelerate the company's edge firewall, threat detection, and VPN appliances The post Fortinet FortiSP5 ASIC Launched appeared first on ServeTheHome.

How to automate updates for your domain list in Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

Guillaume Neau — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:43:07 +0000

Note: This post includes links to third-party websites. AWS is not responsible for the content on those websites. Following the release of Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, Amazon Web Services (AWS) published several blog posts to help you protect your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) DNS resolution, including How to Get Started with […]

Easily protect your AWS CDK-defined infrastructure with AWS WAFv2

Ramon Lopez Narvaez — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:27:55 +0000

Security is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. When we use infrastructure as code (IaC) we want to describe workloads wholistically, and that includes the configuration of firewalls alongside the entrypoints to web applications. As we evolve the infrastructure that our application is built upon, we can adjust firewall rules in the same […]

A new WAF experience

Zhiyuan Zheng — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:59:06 +0000

The security landscape is moving fast. We invited users to help us shape a new WAF experience that enables us to evolve WAF to meet their demands and use cases

Replace your hardware firewalls with Cloudflare One

Ankur Aggarwal — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 14:00:01 +0000

Today, we’re excited to announce new capabilities to help customers make the switch from hardware firewall appliances to a true cloud-native firewall built for next-generation networks.

PII and Selective Logging controls for Cloudflare’s Zero Trust platform

Ankur Aggarwal — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:59:18 +0000

Today we’re excited to announce a combination of two features, Zero Trust role-based access and selective logging. With these features, administrators will be able to protect not only their users but also the data their users generate.

More Detail on the Juniper Hack and the NSA PRNG Backdoor

Bruce Schneier — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:13:10 +0000

We knew the basics of this story, but it’s good to have more detail. Here’s me in 2015 about this Juniper hack. Here’s me in 2007 on the NSA backdoor.

Account Takeover Protection and WAF mitigations to help stop Global Brute Force Campaigns

Michael Tremante — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:53:20 +0000

Today, we are making our Account Takeover Protection capabilities available to all paid plans at no additional charge.

Using HPKE to Encrypt Request Payloads

Miguel de Moura — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Allowing users to securely log parts of the request that match firewall rules while making it impossible for anyone else to decrypt.

Holistic web protection: industry recognition for a prolific 2020

Patrick R. Donahue — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:00:20 +0000

Today we’re excited to announce that Frost & Sullivan has named Cloudflare the Innovation Leader in their Frost Radar™: Global Holistic Web Protection Market Report.

Backdoor in Zyxel Firewalls and Gateways

Bruce Schneier — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 11:44:52 +0000

This is bad:

More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers contain a hardcoded admin-level backdoor account that can grant attackers root access to devices via either the SSH interface or the web administration panel.

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Installing patches removes the backdoor account, which, according to Eye Control researchers, uses the “zyfwp” username and the “PrOw!aN_fXp” password.

“The plaintext password was visible in one of the binaries on the system,” the Dutch researchers said in a report published before the Christmas 2020 holiday...

Encrypting your WAF Payloads with Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE)

Michael Tremante — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Allowing logging for payloads that trigger the Web Application Firewall has always led to end-user privacy concerns. We built encrypted matched payload logging to solve this!