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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. This article explores network security architecture components, goals, best practices, frameworks, implementation, and benefits as well as where you can learn more about network security architecture.

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Legacy Authentication Protocols: Why RADIUS Is (Still) Important

Duo's Security Blog

When reading the title of this blog, you might be wondering to yourself why RADIUS is being highlighted as a subject — especially amidst all of the advancements of modern authentication we see taking place recently. Instead, it supports a variety of authentication protocols , including EAP, PAP, CHAP, and others. What is RADIUS?

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Securing APIs: Application Architecture Disrupted

Security Boulevard

Thus, we’ve decided to document this disruption and the impact on how you have to view application security moving forward. Application Architecture Today. As we get started, let’s go through how we see application architecture evolving. But we’re pretty sure they will; it’s just a matter of time. API Attacks.

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U.S. Security Agencies Release Network Security, Vulnerability Guidance

eSecurity Planet

The NSA’s 58-page Network Infrastructure Security Guidance (PDF) is more of a catalog of network security best practices, based on principles of zero trust and segmentation , following up on brief January guidance (PDF) on segmentation that discussed the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (image below).

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Lockscreen and Authentication Improvements in Android 11

Google Security

This blog post outlines recent improvements around how users interact with the lockscreen on Android devices and more generally with authentication. In particular, we focus on two categories of authentication that present both immense potential as well as potentially immense risk if not designed well: biometrics and environmental modalities.

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Message Authentication Code (MAC) Using Java

Veracode Security

s start by looking at applications designed around symmetric cryptography, starting with Message Authentication Code in this post. In a lot of applications (think of any kind of secure communication), receiving parties need to be assured of the origin of the message (authenticity) and make sure the message is received untampered (integrity).

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PKI for Enterprise Businesses: The Why and How

Security Boulevard

Public key infrastructure (PKI)  offers a globally accepted standard for implementing various security protocols and authentication mechanisms.  e-commerce and online banking), and authenticate the identity of an entity in an online environment. require PKI to ensure data security through authentication and non-repudiation mechanisms.