While the firewall in OS X is meant to be straightforward and simple, the idea of which settings are preferred can be a little confusing. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

The firewall is one of the most important security features in a computer environment. In the classic sense, a firewall is set up on an appliance, such as a computer that fulfills just a single, ...

To properly protect your network, you need to know who and what has access to your network, and where all sensitive information is located. To better control access, start by limiting the devices that ...

At one point or another, you may have noticed that Windows labels your Wi-Fi networks as either private or public networks in the Wi-Fi settings. In fact, by default, they're all public networks, even ...

A few Snow Leopard users have found that when some firewall settings (specifically stealth mode and logging) are changed they do not appear to be reflected in the System Profiler. Topher Kessler ...

Reader Mike Williams appears to be under fire from his Mac’s firewall. He writes: On my Dual G5 PPC with 10.4.11, when I go to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Firewall it says “Firewall is off” and ...

1. Assign ownership, not ambiguity. Firewall policy risk often falls into the void between teams. Assign an executive with ...

I understand that in general a user that is local admin has many ways to get around or prevent settings from being applied via GPO, if they wanted to do so. I just wanted to get that out because that ...