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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. This article explores network security architecture components, goals, best practices, frameworks, implementation, and benefits as well as where you can learn more about network security architecture.

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Building a Ransomware Resilient Architecture

eSecurity Planet

While security teams layer essential preventative measures, resilience measures also need to be implemented in an architecture to reduce the impact of ransomware attacks on your backups. It’s important to note that disaster recovery (DR) sites are usually not air-gapped due to live VPN between production and the DR site.

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Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware

Security Affairs

Latin American Javali trojan weaponizing Avira antivirus legitimate injector to implant malware. As mentioned, in general, this trojan was developed using the same architecture of other Latin American trojans, and the main steps of the infection chain are described below and analyzed in-depth during the next sections of this article.

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Akira ransomware received $42M in ransom payments from over 250 victims

Security Affairs

The cybersecurity researchers observed threat actors obtaining initial access to organizations through a virtual private network (VPN) service without multifactor authentication (MFA) configured. “ Akira operators have been observed deploying two distinct ransomware variants against different system architectures within the same attack.

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8 Top Unified Threat Management (UTM) Software & Hardware Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Web antivirus. IPsec and SSL virtual private networking ( VPN ). Includes intrusion prevention system (IPS), antivirus, Web filtering, content filtering, data loss prevention (DLP) , virtual private network (VPN) tunnel endpoint (SSL & IPSec), SSL inspection, and advanced threat protection. URL filtering.

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Weak Cybersecurity? Here’s Something You Can Do About It

Adam Levin

News that Virtual Private Network ( VPN ) provider NordVPN was breached spread quickly. While the breach of a major VPN service is newsworthy, this one wasn’t particularly. But one of the watchwords of good cyber hygiene, a VPN, was breached. Who Is Using VPNs? The incident put NordVPN in the hot seat.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – September 4, 2023 – Attackers Hit Network Devices and More

eSecurity Planet

Unpatched devices can give attackers privileged access to networks, particularly those set up as VPN virtual servers, ICA proxies, RDP proxies, or AAA servers. It is suspected that the Akira ransomware organization used an undisclosed weakness in Cisco VPN software to evade authentication. MFA should be enabled for all VPN users.

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