These days every business–from Fortune 500s to Mom and Pop groceries–have valuable IT assets such as computers, networks, and data. This detailed 10-step guide can help anyone to conduct their own quick n dirty security audit.
1. More privacy legislation
Now that the midterm elections are behind us, the folks in Washington will take a break from spending our money and focus on protecting our money. Democrats like Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California love this issue anyway and it makes good press–who wouldn’t be in favor of cyber-protection for their constituencies? Look for a lot of grandstanding early in the year followed by the passing of a new data privacy bill sometime in the fall.
The table in the article sorts the tested firewalls by their final score. This table also shows the exact version of every tested product.
Interpretation of results
The clear winners of our tests are Comodo Personal Firewall 2.3.6.81 and Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.16 beta. Whilst Comodo is the best on its highest security settings, Jetico has the best default settings configuration. On the highest security settings, Comodo failed only the Coat leak-test, Jetico failed against Breakout and pcAudit. These results are excellent! What is more, both firewalls are still in development and we can expect that they will pass all tests in their future versions. Congratulations!
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