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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. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

Whether you’re operating a global enterprise network or a small family business, your network’s security needs to be optimized with tools, teams, and processes to protect customer data and valuable business assets. Many of these tools protect resources connected to networks, thus shutting down threats as early as possible.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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How to establish network security for your hybrid workplace

CyberSecurity Insiders

The first security measure businesses adopted during the pandemic was using VPNs that allowed employees to work remotely while still enjoying connectivity and security. To combat these vulnerabilities, organizations must consider establishing hybrid workplace network security.

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Simplify Network Security with Cisco Secure Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) on AWS

Cisco Security

With traditional firewalls, network security teams are charged with the heavy lifting of deploying new solutions. Customers also benefit from support for dynamic policies for AWS tags, plus improved threat detection, simplified customization, and enhanced performance of our latest, industry-leading open-source IPS, Snort3.

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

eSecurity Planet

Unified threat management (UTM) offers something approaching total security in a box for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), combining multiple network security functions in a single appliance. Some even predict it will all head to the cloud with Secure Service Edge /Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions.

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Your employees are everywhere. Is your security?

Cisco Security

By converging security and networking functionality into a single, cloud-delivered service, SASE improves operational efficiency and performance while also strengthening threat protection for the hybrid workforce. SecureX provides extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities and more.

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