September 11, 2024

How Deep Inspection Firewalls can Interfere with FTP Uploads and Downloads

Deep inspection firewalls, also known as deep packet inspection (DPI) firewalls, analyze the content of network traffic beyond basic header information, inspecting the payload of packets to enforce security policies, detect anomalies, and filter out malicious data. While this provides enhanced security, deep inspection can interfere with FTP uploads and downloads due to the unique characteristics of the FTP protocol. […]

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August 22, 2022

Application Blocked on a System with Carbon Black Installed

Carbon Black is security software that can block your application from running unless you whitelist it.  Here’s a description of how a Chilkat user discovered that Carbon Black was the cause of his PowerBuilder application not working. We figured out why the executable could not retrieve a token from Box. It was not a firewall/network issue, the application was being […]

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