The Difference Between a Hardware Firewall and a Software Firewall. Firewalls, both hardware and software, protect computers from hackers and other online threats by blocking dangerous pieces of ...

Hardware is designed; software is developed. What is “design” for one is “development” for the other. While this might seem like a minor difference, it isn’t. “Chip designers” are “hardware engineers” ...

Interest in developing the IoT has raised the volume of conversation about system security for embedded devices. Designers can take a hard or soft approach.

Hardware-managed hybrid disks look like a single disk to the host’s device driver, so SSHDs can replace a hard drive or even an SSD without changing the host software.

It may not be the most glamorous type of software development, but getting it right is essential for the success of any hardware platform.

The downside to software firewalls is that they only protect the computer they are installed on, not a network, so each individual computer needs to have a software firewall installed on it. Like ...