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Term which is used today to describe almost every general purpose firewall appliance which can do some kind of application layer filtering.

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The security of IP whitelisting large ranges

I am not a network expert but; a recent conversation has come up with a client asking to whitelist a range of ip's (let's say 250 odd for now) to transfer their data to us for processing. I should ...
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micro segmentation in the campus [closed]

We have so many devices (IoT and wintel, macs, androids, ios) spread across a few VLANs. Worried about any one device getting affected (e.g. Ransomware) and potentially infecting all other devices on ...
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How does a NG Firewall do application visibility and classification of TLS traffic without TLS interception and how reliable is this

How Does Application Visibility and Control Work? The application identification (App ID) classification engine and application signature pattern-matching engine operate at Layer 7 and inspect ...
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How SSH Deep Inspection works?

I just saw an option in Fortinet NGFW regarding, SSH Deep Inspection. So my question is how Deep inspection or whatever can inspect or find any malicious activity on encrypted packets?