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Top 9 Network Access Control (NAC) Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Impluse SafeConnect offers automatic device discovery and can support anywhere from 250 to 25,000 endpoints and up with its scalable appliance architecture. It offers a rule-based architecture to automate access based on use cases. CounterACT plays well in regulated environments such as defense, finance, healthcare and retail.

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State auditor’s office clashes with file transfer service provider after breach

SC Magazine

Hence the reason why credit card information is never transmitted to the retailer. Adopting newer technologies that enable the use of encrypted data by the proper parties coupled with multi-party key ownership for authentication is one way to eliminate data loss during transmission.”.

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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. Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource.

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IoT Devices a Huge Risk to Enterprises

eSecurity Planet

It also feeds into the larger argument for adopting a zero-trust architecture , a methodology that essentially assumes that no user or devices trying to connect to the network can be trusted until they’re authenticated and verified. IoT device security has also been the target of a broad federal effort in recent months.

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Top 6 API Security Questions Answered

Security Boulevard

Traditional API management tools that include some security capabilities, such as web application firewalls (WAFs) and API gateways, understandably play an important part in today’s security stacks. Question 4: Can Zero Trust Architecture Ensure API Protection? Question 2: Can WAFs and API Gateways Protect Our APIs?

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Office 365 Security Concerns

Spinone

As is obviously the case, public cloud architecture is vastly different from on-prem enterprise datacenters. The architecture of the Cloud App Security platform as outlined by Microsoft: With the Cloud Discovery mechanism, Cloud App Security uses traffic logs to discover and analyze cloud apps found and utilized within the organization.

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Uncovering new techniques and phishing attack trends from the cloud

Security Boulevard

Email continues to be the top phishing vector, but other vectors such as SMS are growing: consumers trust text messages more than emails, and a successful SMS phishing (“SMiShing”) attack can give attackers the smartphone access that they need to bypass two-factor authentication. Simulate phishing attacks to identify gaps in your program.

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