Firewall Basics: What Firewalls Do and What They Cannot Protect
A technical overview of network firewalls: packet filtering, stateful inspection, next-gen application inspection, and architectural limitations.
Insights, updates, and practical guides from our engineering team.
A technical overview of network firewalls: packet filtering, stateful inspection, next-gen application inspection, and architectural limitations.
A technical engineering guide to securing Internet of Things devices: NIST SP 800-213 guidelines, disabling UPnP, Manufacturer Usage Descriptions, and VLAN quarantine.
A technical engineering guide to Internet of Things (IoT) architecture: the four-tier model, edge sensor telemetry, protocol gateways, and cloud ingest.
A technical investigation into why Wi-Fi drops: co-channel interference, 2.4 GHz vs 5 GHz physics, overlapping channels, and BSSID roaming thresholds.
A masterclass in fundamental command-line network diagnostics: the mechanics of ICMP Echo, TTL decrementing in traceroute, and DNS record queries.
A technical guide to DNS resolver caching: cache poisoning defenses, Negative Caching (RFC 2308), TTL expiry, and OS cache flushing commands.
A vendor-neutral diagnostic framework for isolating high CPU utilization: analyzing context switching, run-queue load averages, and runaway processes.
A methodical engineering guide to diagnosing slow internet speeds: isolating physical layers, Wi-Fi vs Ethernet testing, gateway metrics, and MTU issues.
A technical breakdown of modern wireless standards: OFDMA, 6 GHz spectrum, Multi-Link Operation, and enterprise capacity enhancements.