Validating Security Configurations and Detecting Backdoors in New Network Devices

By year-end 2014, Gartner predicts that 70% of new firewall purchases will be next-generation firewalls. (Young, 2013) Organizations are quickly realizing the practical benefits of combining deep packet inspection, application awareness, IPS/threat detection, VPN, SSL interception, web filtering,...

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Christoph Eckstein

September 30, 2014

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