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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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Building a Scalable Security Architecture on AWS with Cisco Secure Firewall and AWS Transit Gateway

Cisco Security

With Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.1, This integration simplifies insertion of Cisco Secure Firewall in AWS with Geneve protocol (RFC 8926) encapsulation. It makes architectures more scalable, in part by removing the need for source network address translation (SNAT) in the traffic path.

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Introducing Secure Firewall version 7.3

Cisco Security

Introduction to Cisco Secure Firewall 7.3. Cisco’s latest release of Secure Firewall operating system, Secure Firewall Threat Defence Version 7.3, addresses key concerns for today’s firewall customers. allows for the fingerprinting of traffic that is using the QUIC Protocol in Secure Firewall 7.3. Reduced TCO.

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Cisco Secure Firewall on AWS: Build resilience at scale with stateful firewall clustering

Cisco Security

Organizations may introduce multiple individual firewalls into their AWS infrastructure to produce this outcome. To solve these challenges, Cisco created stateful firewall clustering with Secure Firewall in AWS. Cisco Secure Firewall clustering overview. In the Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.1

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Top 12 Firewall Best Practices to Optimize Network Security

eSecurity Planet

Firewalls monitor and control incoming and outgoing traffic while also preventing unauthorized access. Overlapping rules may impair firewall efficiency or expose flaws that allow attackers to circumvent regulations. Choose a centralized platform that is interoperable with several firewall suppliers.

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Building a Ransomware Resilient Architecture

eSecurity Planet

While security teams layer essential preventative measures, resilience measures also need to be implemented in an architecture to reduce the impact of ransomware attacks on your backups. All inter-VLAN traffic should go through a firewall. Figure 1: Typical VLAN architecture. Firewalls have limited throughput on their own.

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What Is a DMZ Network? Definition, Architecture & Benefits

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The DMZ should be set up with at least one gateway device (typically a firewall ) that will filter external network packets through to the DMZ and monitor for unusual traffic or activity. In many cases, a dual firewall layout is implemented for a second round of network packet filtering before the LAN (see image below).