The phrase "deep packet inspection" has been cropping up quite a bit, of late, particularly with regard to the UK government's proposed web surveillance plans. But what is it, how does it work, and ...

A next-generation firewall analyses network traffic and allows or denies traffic transit depending on set firewall policies based on traffic characteristics. Next-generation firewalls can read data ...

Imagine a device that sits inline in a major ISP's network and can throttle P2P traffic at differing levels depending on the time of day. Imagine a device that allows one user access only to e-mail ...

It’s easy to turn a deaf ear to the controversy surrounding recent copyright protection bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the PROTECT IP Act, which threatened to curtail free speech on ...