eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offers firewall capabilities as a cloud-based service. Traditional firewalls protect the network perimeter, enforcing security standards by regulating incoming and outgoing traffic according to rules and traffic analysis.

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Firewall Architecture Data privacy Internet 98

SC Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

A PDNS service uses existing DNS protocols and architecture to analyze DNS queries and mitigate threats. According to NSA and CISA, the service provides defenses in various points of the network exploitation lifecycle, addressing phishing, malware distribution, command and control, domain generation algorithms, and content filtering.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

More than a third (39%) used the microservice architecture. Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) The popularity of the cloud and microservice architectures is on the rise. Set firewall filters to prevent access to unauthorized domains. Most of the web applications were owned by companies based in Russia, China and the Middle East.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2021

As the zero trust architecture ‘s core technology, implementing microsegmentation isn’t about heavily restricting communication within a network. Raise Next-Generation Firewalls . Lastly, and probably the most advanced microsegmentation method is next-generation firewalls (NGFWs). Move Towards Zero Trust.

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McAfee

JUNE 2, 2020

Yet, these changes mark a progression toward a very flexible architecture. Looking ahead, what are the performance and architectural paradigm shift being considered that we will prize several years from now? Consistent policy implementations become a key success factor when managing data and devices beyond your firewall.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

This will not only help better test the architectures that need to be prioritized, but it will provide all sides with a clear understanding of what is being tested and how it will be tested. Also read: Penetration Testing vs. Most cyberattacks today start with social engineering, phishing , or smishing.

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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). Implement phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all services, particularly for email, VPNs, and accounts that access critical systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 12, 2023

This includes using AI to perform more sophisticated phishing attacks, automate the discovery of vulnerabilities, or conduct faster, more effective brute-force attacks. This Zero Trust Architecture encompasses several strategies. AI-enhanced cyberattacks: AI can be used by malicious actors to automate and enhance their cyberattacks.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additionally, cybercriminals may be able to use inflation to their advantage, such as by sending phishing emails that appear to be from legitimate companies offering discounts or assistance. Organizations should educate their employees about cybersecurity best practices and how to identify and avoid phishing attacks. SIEM, SOAR)?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, firewalls, encryption, and monitoring systems are just a few of the tools and procedures used to maintain security. An impenetrable defense against attacks is formed by strong passwords, two-factor authentication, firewalls, encryption, and vigilant monitoring.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Most operations use payloads, but there are a few payload-less attacks, such as phishing campaigns that do not include malicious links or malware , but rely on more sophisticated deception such as spoofing to trick their targets. Even if there’s a firewall enabled, it won’t block outgoing TCP connections. How Payloads Get Executed.

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Penetration Testing Social Engineering Software Wireless 134

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These safeguards, when combined with adherence to security best practices and standards, establish a strong security architecture for public cloud environments. Firewalls and Network Security Firewalls serve as a barrier between cloud resources and external networks in a public cloud environment.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Cybercriminals are using Salesforce’s mass email service to dupe people into handing over credit card numbers, credentials and other personal information in a novel phishing campaign that highlights the threats to corporate networks that can come from whitelisted email addresses. Therein lies a key issue raised by the phishing campaign.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2022

Download your free copy of the 2022 ThreatLabz Phishing Report, and check out our infographic. For decades, phishing has been a complex and time-consuming challenge for every security team. Avoiding the latest breed of phishing attacks requires heightened awareness from users, additional context, and a zero trust approach.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web. Technical controls may be implemented by: Hardware appliances : switches, routers, firewalls, etc. In a complex, modern network, this assumption falls apart.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To impose access controls, it connects with security groups, firewalls, and network solutions. Phishing and unpatched software or misconfigurations are common entry points. Insiders may also unintentionally fall victim to phishing, putting their credentials at risk and allowing attackers illegal access.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Figure 2: VPN vulnerabilities open doors to cyber threats, protect against these risks with Zero Trust architecture. Zero trust is a fundamentally different architecture than those built upon firewalls and VPNs. Cultivate a security culture: Many breaches begin with compromising a single user account via a phishing attack.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

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. These physical controls do not rely upon IT technology and will be assumed to be in place.

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Firewall Network Security Penetration Testing Encryption 109

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

DNS Server Hardening DNS server hardening can be very complex and specific to the surrounding architecture. Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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DNS DDOS Firewall Architecture 113

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. If you’re just looking for a firewall with good security, Sophos will do. Fortinet offers virtual firewalls too for hybrid cloud use cases.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2024

SSE works by extending security to cover the dispersed threat landscape where websites, cloud assets, and many employees operate outside of the traditional firewall protection. SSE tools will often deploy a cloud-hosted firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) as the fundamental tool to decrypt and examine traffic flows to block threats.

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SecureList

JULY 19, 2023

only traces of connections to the WebUI could be stored in the firewall logs. Use of the CLI from WebUI doesn’t leave any source IP information in the OS logs because the connection originates locally from 127.0.0.1;

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Firewalls and web application firewalls ( WAFs ) filter network traffic. Firewalls and Web Application Firewalls (WAF): Firewalls regulate network traffic and defend against external threats, whereas WAFs protect web applications by monitoring and filtering HTTP/HTTPS requests from potential threats.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Washington state unemployment users will need to be on the alert for phishing emails, snail mails, texts and phone calls – all designed to extract more personal information from unwitting victims. ” Accellion further contends that the “vast majority” of its customers have already made the switch. .

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Like any malware, ransomware enters the network through attack vectors like phishing emails , social engineering , software and remote desktop protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities, and malicious websites. Though network firewalls and EDR remain trusty defense layers, they fail to guard against the advanced insider threat.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

See translation Will buy 0day/1day RCE in IoT Escrow See translation Hi, I want to buy IoT exploits with devices located in Korea Any architecture There are also offers to purchase and sell IoT malware on dark web forums, often packaged with infrastructure and supporting utilities.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While much of the spam circulating is innocuous, many emails are phishing attempts, and some are indeed malicious. What they may not be aware of, is that they have just given their credit card details away in a phishing scam. Image 10 – Steps in package delivery phishing scam. A word of caution. Your package is in route.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2022

FortiGate Network Firewall. Fortinet delivers FortiGate Network Firewalls that are right sized for small businesses to deliver easy-to-use enterprise-level security, good price-to-performance, and offer centralized cloud management that integrates into the larger Fortinet Security Fabric as the business grows. Key Differentiators.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2023

SSE is the security portion of the SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architecture, which converges networking and security together. More specifically, SSE includes: Secure Web Gateway (SWG), which defends users against phishing attacks and malicious websites. Security Service Edge (SSE) fits that profile. Q-1: What is SSE?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SWGs achieve this by blocking web-based attacks that forward malware, phishing , drive-by downloads, ransomware, supply chain attacks , and command-and-control actions. Many of these vendors also rank on our top next-gen firewall (NGFW) page. Elastic and scalable serverless architecture and auto-scaling. SSL inspection.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

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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Backups Ransomware Risk Government 64

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. HashiCorp (Terraform) provides infrastructure automation and now supports Secure Firewall ASA.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2021

When we get called in to perform Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), there’s a good chance RDP was the initial entry point for the attackers – ranking up there with phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC). Another method used to bypass firewall restrictions is creating a tunnel out from a compromised PC. What is RDP?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cyber Threat Mitigations There are many cyber threats that can compromise millions of data, ranging from hacking and phishing to malware attacks. Firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and virtual private networks (VPNs) help prevent unauthorized access and protect against external threats.

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Backups Encryption Firewall Risk 100

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The test focused on the detection rate of links pointing to portable executables (PEs) such as malware.exe files, non-PE (including HTML and JavaScript) malicious files and phishing URLs. In all cases, the score was over 80% and in some cases, closer to 90%. The false positive rate hovered around 2.5%.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Limited Control & Visibility Insufficient visibility into the cloud architecture causes delays in threat responses, increasing the risk of data breaches. Use web application firewall (WAF): WAF screens requests based on IP addresses or HTTP headers, identifies code injection attempts, and defines response quotas.

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