Ms. Allen received a BS in computer science from the University of Michigan, an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), and an executive business certificate from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her professional affiliations include ACM and IEEE Computer Society.
Firewalls are like security checkpoints; they serve as the first line of defense against threats. However, bad policies result in poor security and ineffective operations. It has been said that a firewall’s security is only as good as the policy it is configured to implement. Yet more than 95 percent of firewall breaches are caused […]
Firewalls are the first and continued line of defense for enterprises today, handling vast amounts of traffic across the corporate network. On the perimeter alone, firewalls filter millions of packets daily. The corporate security policy implemented in these firewalls often consists of hundreds, or even thousands, of rules and objects. Objects may include groups of […]