Some forms of WAN firewalls have been around for a couple of decades. It is hard to deny that firewalls are helpful. They are. It is also hard to argue that they are very exciting. In fact, since the ...

The humble firewall has come a long way since the packet-filtering days of yore. The first firewalls were developed by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) back in the late 1980s. These early ...

Nir Zuk says he developed the technology used in all firewalls today. David Pensak claims to have built the first commercially successful firewall. Marcus Ranum says his own reputation as inventor of ...