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

SC Magazine

Trying to maintain computational and algorithmic advantage, we want to make sure that not only are we being secure by design, but we want to make sure that the whole ecosystem is properly addressed. That includes the architectures, the computing platforms, the algorithms and the people and the process as well. And that’s been overcome.

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Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibility Model

eSecurity Planet

This does not apply to customer-created networks or connections. 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, API, firewall, and WAF hardening.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies.

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How to Improve SD-WAN Security

eSecurity Planet

Traditional Networks vs Software-Defined Networks (SDN) SDN vs SD-WAN Security Challenges to SD-WAN SD-WAN Security Features and Capabilities Improving SD-WAN Security SASE: SD-WAN and SSE SD-WAN: Securing Today’s Enterprise Networks. Traditional Networks vs Software-Define Networks (SDN).

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Implementing these best practices will not only protect DNS but also network security in general because properly protected DNS can also protect email, endpoints, and other network systems from attack. DNS Server Hardening DNS server hardening can be very complex and specific to the surrounding architecture.

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