InsideOut Firewall Reporter Unravels the Mysteries of Your Firewall Logs
Troy Thompson - June 22, 2003

Executive Summary

The most important piece of hardware that protects your network from intruders, hackers, and outside traffic is your firewall. Firewalls process an enormous amount of data, that when converted to useful information, can tell you many things about the packets traveling in and out of your network. Recently we took a look at InsideOut Firewall Reporter (IFR), created by Stonylake Solutions to find out how it interprets data and information produced by a leading firewall. We conducted the lab tests using Windows 2000 and a Cisco PIX firewall...