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Firewalla launches its Purple gigabit home firewall

TechCrunch

Over the course of the last few years, Firewalla ‘s combined firewall and router devices have made a name for themselves as the go-to hardware security tools for many enthusiasts and small businesses. With many homes now having access to gigabit internet connections, though, the Purple slots in nicely in the middle there.

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OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet

TechCrunch

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT , can now browse the internet — in certain cases. Beyond the web plugin, OpenAI released a code interpreter for ChatGPT that provides the chatbot with a working Python interpreter in a sandboxed, firewalled environment along with disk space.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Firewall in Computer Network

The Crazy Programmer

The computer connected with the internet can be more likely to get affected by viruses and cyber-attacks. Nowadays, the firewall is used mainly in organizations and also by individuals. But do you know what type of advantages users get after installing a firewall on their computer? What is Firewall in Computer Network?

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Robust Intelligence raises $30M Series B to stress test AI models

TechCrunch

And then came the internet, data, Google and data processing — and then it realized its potential in the span of seven, eight years. To do so, the company offers its users what it calls the Robust Intelligence Model Engine (RIME), with what is essentially an AI firewall at its core. Image Credits: Robust Intelligence.

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Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M

TechCrunch

An open source package that grew into a distributed platform, Ngrok aims to collapse various networking technologies into a unified layer, letting developers deliver apps the same way regardless of whether they’re deployed to the public cloud, serverless platforms, their own data center or internet of things devices.

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Cyberpion raises $8.25M in seed funding to help businesses secure assets beyond their firewall

TechCrunch

.” What’s interesting here is that the service analyzes a company’s security stance with regard to these attacks by looking at the connections it makes across the public infrastructure of the internet — and with that it can look at how a company connects to one vendor, but also how they are connected to others, as well.

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