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A new generation of security solutions.(Teach-In)

By Kilpatrick, Ian
Publication: Database and Network Journal
Date: Wednesday, October 1 2003

Over the last few years, the nature of security solutions has been evolving to meet the growing and increasing nature of the IT security threat. We've seen a move away from server based security software and we're now entering a new era in security--that of the appliance.

Security appliances arrived on the scene about six years ago. The first type to take off was the firewall appliance. Products such as the WatchGuard Firebox grew in popularity and today there is a wide range of firewall/VPN appliances, according to the analysts, overtaking software based firewalls in

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