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New SEI CERT chief and first ever federal CISO: old cybersecurity models have ‘been overcome’

SC Magazine

That includes the architectures, the computing platforms, the algorithms and the people and the process as well. We would build our architectures with that perimeter defense model where we’re going to have a firewall and we’re going to deny everything except for those things that we want to let through. And that’s been overcome.

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Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibility Model

eSecurity Planet

Provider Services & Software: Cloud providers may offer a range of services such as databases, firewalls , artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and application programming interface (API) connections. Network, firewall, and web application firewall (WAF) hardening. Network, API, firewall, and WAF hardening.

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Replace Your SIEM with Neural Net Technology

Security Boulevard

When the first SIEMs were created, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) were very much in their infancy. SIEMs solved this problem by connecting firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDSs) together with security infrastructure. Why SIEM technology is no longer enough. A decade ago, this wasn’t true.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web. Technical controls may be implemented by: Hardware appliances : switches, routers, firewalls, etc. In a complex, modern network, this assumption falls apart.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

The tools also depend upon physical controls that should also be implemented against malicious physical access to destroy or compromise networking equipment such as routers, cables, switches, firewalls, and other networking appliances. These physical controls do not rely upon IT technology and will be assumed to be in place.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

DNS Server Hardening DNS server hardening can be very complex and specific to the surrounding architecture. Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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How to Improve SD-WAN Security

eSecurity Planet

SD-WAN is a virtual architecture for managing a wide-area network covering distributed, hybrid IT environments typical for today’s enterprise organizations. With SD-WAN architectures, branch employees and remote users connect to an enterprise network through a web of connected devices over the internet. What is SD-WAN?