A browser-based VPN technology is gaining popularity among corporate buyers, and carriers are making a bid for their business. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

Editor’s Note : On Dec. 4, this newsletter will shift its focus from VPNs to network access control. NAC is an emerging network security architecture that starts with securing endpoints before they ...

Security with ease of use is the promise of Secure Sockets Layer VPNs. In our test of seven SSL VPN gateways – from AEP, F5 Networks, NetScreen Technologies, Netilla, Nokia, Symantec and Whale ...

SSL and its descendent, TLS, are protocols that encrypt internet traffic, making secure internet communication and ecommerce possible. The decades-long history of these protocols has been marked by ...

The Internet is a dangerous place. It’s simply too easy to snoop, spoof, and steal unprotected information as it travels over the wires. Last month, I wrote the final article in a series on X.509 ...