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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

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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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Public Cloud Security Explained: Everything You Need to Know

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These safeguards, when combined with adherence to security best practices and standards, establish a strong security architecture for public cloud environments. Authentication guarantees that users are who they say they are, typically through usernames and passwords or multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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What Is a Circuit-Level Gateway? Definitive Guide

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Dropped packets also defend against many different types of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) that attempt to consume server resources with TCP packets unrelated to established connections such as ACK-floods and SYN-floods. It conducts the handshake process to complete authentication and authorization with the host.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

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DNS communicates in plain text and, without modification, DNS assumes that all information it receives is accurate, authentic, and authoritative. To protect the protocol, best practices will add additional protocols to the process that encrypt the DNS communication and authenticate the results.

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What Is Cloud Workload Protection? Ultimate Guide

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While cloud service providers (CSPs) offer their own native security, CWPP offers an additional layer of customized protection and management to fit the demands of workloads. Weak authentication techniques might result in credentials that are easily guessable. As a result, attackers may get access to sensitive information.

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How to Secure the 5 Cloud Environment Types

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In this article, we will explore the key characteristics, security threats, and best security practices for five key cloud security environments: public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and multi-tenant cloud. Also read: What is Private Cloud Security?

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Top 7 Cloud Storage Security Issues & Risks (+ Mitigations)

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Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Limited Control & Visibility Insufficient visibility into the cloud architecture causes delays in threat responses, increasing the risk of data breaches.

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