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Portnox Cloud: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks. authentication to gather endpoint information for reporting and enforcement. Since then Portnox continued to add capabilities, launched the first cloud-native NAC in 2017, and now offers a NAC SaaS solution, Portnox Cloud.

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OWASP Names a New Top Vulnerability for First Time in Years

eSecurity Planet

OWASP security researchers have updated the organization’s list of the ten most dangerous vulnerabilities – and the list has a new number one threat for the first time since 2007. Insecure authentication process such as flawed account recovery or password reset, or insecure session tokens.

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Threat Trends: Firewall

Cisco Security

In any perimeter defense a key component is firewalls—the proverbial guard towers in your fortifications. In this Threat Trends release, we’ll be looking at Cisco Secure Firewall. The goal is to highlight the common threats that organizations encounter and block with Secure Firewall. Secure Firewall version 7.0

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SAML: Still Going Strong After Two Decades

eSecurity Planet

These communications on the backend of username and password login processes ensure users get authenticated by the overarching identity manager and authorized to use the given web service(s). Context: Authentication vs. Authorization. Service providers are the organizations and web services offered to users through a valid request.

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The Life and Death of Passwords: Improving Security With Passwords and People

Duo's Security Blog

Back in 2007, I believe, the Aurora attack saw Google employees targeted by a nation state. So [the attackers] went after 10 of their friends, and then they had their friends’ compromised accounts send them links and that’s how they got in. Humans are not the weakest link in information security.

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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Permissioned blockchains, or private blockchains,aren’t truly decentralized because they’re organized by a governance structure and authentication process for nodes. Since the 1970s, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has offered encryption , authentication, bootstrapping, and digital signatures to secure digital communications.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Read more : Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Vendors. Company Sector Year Status Exabeam UEBA 2021 Private Cato Networks SASE 2020 Private Confluera Cloud XDR 2019 Private Aqua Container security 2017 Private Netskope SASE 2017 Private Zscaler Zero trust 2012 Nasdaq: ZS Sailpoint Identity management 2007 Private. Kleiner Perkins.