The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2022

During the first two decades of this century, virtual private networks —VPNs—served as a cornerstone of network security. VPNs encrypt data streams and protect endpoints from unauthorized access, essentially by requiring all network communications to flow over a secured pipe.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 30, 2023

Introduction Today you look at the Global/Multi-site Enterprise Security Architecture of an organization and see a myriad of concerns. Increased levels of complexity, difficulties managing multiple third parties, difficulties implementing consistent levels of security, and so on. This can include uncounted third parties as well.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Organizations had always historically experienced visibility gaps into employee activities whenever their users were off-VPN while working remotely. When workers eventually turn their AnyConnect VPNs back on, the Network Visibility Module will phone home and send logs of all their user activities back to Secure Network Analytics.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Organizations had always historically experienced visibility gaps into employee activities whenever their users were off-VPN while working remotely. When workers eventually turn their AnyConnect VPNs back on, the Network Visibility Module will phone home and send logs of all their user activities back to Secure Network Analytics.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Unpatched devices can give attackers privileged access to networks, particularly those set up as VPN virtual servers, ICA proxies, RDP proxies, or AAA servers. This major security weakness can allow unauthenticated attackers to execute code on vulnerable devices through the Internet-exposed J-Web configuration interface.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2022

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. In every ransomware incident in the last three years, the attacker corrupted backups on the network. Figure 1: Typical VLAN architecture.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

But despite frequent references and marketing resources, there’s still much confusion about what SASE means, as well as its purpose and how seriously security pros should focus on it. Think of SASE as an architecture model, although sometimes it’s referred to as a concept or framework.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A host-based firewall is installed directly on individual networked devices to filter network traffic on a single device by inspecting both incoming and outgoing data. Larger enterprises use this to manage the spread of malware throughout a network in the event that one device is infected.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

Specifically, the agency added: Recommendations for preventing common initial infection vectors Updated recommendations to address cloud backups and zero trust architecture (ZTA). It is also important to repeat security awareness training regularly to keep your staff informed and vigilant. Use automation to detect common issues (e.g.,

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This means being more agile and flexible with the company’s security strategy to accommodate the varying needs of a dispersed workforce, and that requires a cloud-first model. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has emerged as a new cloud-based network security model that was coined by Gartner.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

An application gateway, also known as an application level gateway (ALG), functions as a critical firewall proxy for network security. Its filtering capability ensures that only certain network application data is transmitted, which has an impact on the security of protocols including FTP, Telnet, RTSP, and BitTorrent.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

Among the findings are nine vulnerabilities that operate as “network pivots,” where attackers targeted VPNs, firewalls and other internet-facing technologies to gain initial access.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“I so look forward to the next firewall hardware upgrade cycle!”. – If I learned one thing from my firewall customers over the many years, it would be that they like to upgrade their hardware appliances as much as an average consumer likes to shop for a new car. This is how the new mid-range Secure Firewall 3100 Series was born.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

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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McAfee

JULY 29, 2021

Architected for the cloud-first and remote-first deployments, MVISION Cloud Firewall secures access to applications and resources on the internet, accessed from every remote site and location, through a cloud-native service model. Wherever networks went, firewalls followed.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

Unified threat management (UTM) offers something approaching total security in a box for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), combining multiple network security functions in a single appliance. Some vendors have ditched the UTM label and prefer to call their tools next-generation firewalls (NGFW). URL filtering.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

Sophos and Fortinet both appear on our list of the top next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) , and while both offer very good security at their price points, they serve very different markets. Which one is best for you will depend on your security and throughput needs – and budget. Bundling helps to lower the TCO of Fortinet tools.

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McAfee

AUGUST 23, 2020

“Features are a nice to have, but at the end of the day, all we care about when it comes to our web and cloud security is architecture.” – said no customer ever. As a result, organizations are coming around to the realization that digital transformation demands a corresponding network and security architectural transformation.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

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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Cisco Security

MAY 18, 2022

But while attackers work hard to get into your network, Cisco continues to innovate to keep them out, no matter where your devices or users may go. Key security architectures for safeguarding hybrid work . Most recently, we launched the Cisco Secure Firewall 3100 Series , which is specifically designed for hybrid work.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Deploy Anti-DDoS Architecture : Design resources so that they will be difficult to find or attack effectively or if an attack succeeds, it will not take down the entire organization. Hardening includes, but is not limited to: Block unused ports on servers and firewalls. Limit some protocols to devices on the internal network.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations. CyberArk reduces VPN risk with MFA enforcement on any VPN client that supports RADIUS; including Cisco Secure Firewall. The Secure Firewall app for Splunk has been updated.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

Implementing SASE Bottom Line: Implement SASE to Improve Security and Operations What Problem Does SASE Solve? Traditional networking either causes operations bottlenecks by forcing all traffic to route through centralized firewalls or exposes remote assets and cloud resources to attack. What Is SASE? What Are the SASE Benefits?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Considering this, most businesses do have a level investment allocated into security mechanisms for their ecosystem. This may range from the use of VPNs, firewalls, endpoint protection and other similar technologies. However, an often-underused tool is the network itself. Key Security Principles.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The algorithm allows for variable key sizes and variable rounds to increase randomness and security. AES encryption can be commonly found in communication protocols, virtual private network (VPN) encryption, full-disk encryption, and Wi-Fi transmission protocols. that can perform encryption using less power and memory.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2021

As organizations look to strengthen their network security or update their cybersecurity defenses, the gospel of zero trust awaits. . With the swift adoption of remote work and added difficulty identifying network perimeters, zero trust as a solution is gaining steam. Also Read: Top Zero Trust Security Solutions of 2021 .

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McAfee

JUNE 22, 2020

URL filtering then transitioned to proxy servers sitting behind corporate firewalls. Since proxies terminate traffic coming from users and complete the connection to the desired websites, security experts quickly saw the potential to perform more thorough inspection than just comparing URLs to existing blacklists. Next-Generation SWG.

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Cisco Security

JULY 18, 2022

In essence, it represents a new and improved database architecture design that can be made up of virtual or physical appliances to provide industry leading horizontal scaling for telemetry and event retention for over a year. Such data encompasses network telemetry, firewall logging, and remote worker telemetry.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

In addition, most DDoS mitigation solution providers bundle Web Application Firewall functionality to prevent DDoS attacks at the application layer. Protects websites, networks, DNS and individual IPs. A single stack architecture reduces latency and results in fast remediation of DDoS attacks and other web application threats.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 5, 2021

Gartner calls it zero trust network access (ZTNA) and sees ZTNA as something of a fine-grained approach to network access control (NAC) , identity access management (IAM) and privilege access management (PAM) – and at least an adjunct to, if not a replacement for, VPNs and DMZ architectures. Jump ahead to: Cisco.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 7, 2021

The startups in the 2021 Big50 Startup Report are challenging the status quo in a number of high-growth, high-tech markets, including networking, security, AI, IoT, cloud, and more,” said Jeff Vance, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Startup50.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2022

Just as the development of cannons and other weapons made walls obsolete as a form of defense, sophisticated cyber attacks have made the firewall -perimeter model of cybersecurity equally obsolete. No longer is traffic inside the network automatically presumed to be from authorized and authenticated sources. Why Zero Trust Matters.

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