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Secure Workload Protection: Extending Micro Perimeters and Automation to Enterprise IaaS

Cisco Security

Enterprises have security operations centers (SOCs) that address of the needs of the oceans of on-premises and cloud compute resources. These SOCs aggressively leverage automation to tackle the Herculean task of cloud workload security; automation demands integration. Organizations may subscribe to numerous threat intelligence feeds.

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More Than 90 Percent of Malware in Q2 Came Via Encrypted Traffic: WatchGuard

eSecurity Planet

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Top Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Vendors for 2021.

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HTML Smuggling technique used in phishing and malspam campaigns

Security Affairs

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) July 23, 2021. “Thus, instead of having a malicious executable pass directly through a network, the attacker builds the malware locally behind a firewall.” The malicious payloads are delivered via encoded strings in an HTML attachment or webpage. .”

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This Is How Cybercriminals Are Targeting School Teachers

SecureWorld News

pic.twitter.com/CFk37M5fpp — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel). February 2, 2021. and someone in IT or security posted about doing extra work in higher ed: ". to constantly change the detection logic / phrases in our email firewall to catch.". In comments on Twitter, one user mentioned: ".seeing

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Top Threat Intelligence Platforms for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Key features in a top threat intelligence platform include the consolidation of threat intelligence feeds from multiple sources, automated identification and containment of new attacks, security analytics, and integration with other security tools like SIEM , next-gen firewalls (NGFW) and EDR. Visit website.

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Fortinet vs Palo Alto Networks: Top NGFWs Compared

eSecurity Planet

A next-generation firewall (NGFW) is an important component of network security and represents the third generation of firewall technology. Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks are two of the top cybersecurity companies and compete in a number of security markets, among them EDR and firewalls. Security Capabilities.

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Top Cybersecurity Products for 2021

eSecurity Planet

We’ve narrowed this list down to four categories of products that are essential to modern cybersecurity: Endpoint detection and response (EDR) , next-generation firewalls (NGFW) , cloud access security brokers (CASB) and security information and event management (SIEM). NGFWs are the third generation of firewalls.