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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

So much so that the OWASP industry standards group maintains an API Security Top 10 List. Indeed, API security has become a red-hot topic. This summer Gartner designated API security as a stand-alone pillar in its security reference architecture, not just an add-on component to other systems.

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5 Components of the Kubernetes Control Plane that Demand Special Attention in Your Security Strategy

Security Affairs

They should also use firewall rules as well as the feature’s inherent security features, notably peer.key/peer.cert and client.key/client.cert, to secure communications between etcd members as well as between etcd and its clients. Even so, organizations’ work to secure their Kubernetes architecture doesn’t end there.

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Grip Security Blog 2023-04-25 13:13:02

Security Boulevard

Often, functionality gaps lead to security gaps when identities become the last remaining enforcement point. Yet identities sprawl, duplicate and make connections far more than traditional perimeter safeguards like firewalls. Does that seem safe? According to a Gartner Inc.

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A Successful Security Platform Requires the Strongest Partner Ecosystem

Cisco Security

Open architecture: A platform that is proprietary is only half effective when you are leaving out control points, threat intelligence sources, and other critical tools that don’t integrate. Integrated operations: You must be able to do more than see a problem. So how do we do this? SecureX orchestration integrations.

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What does it take to do SASE your way?

Cisco Security

Cisco’s approach to SASE combines leading network and security functionality into an integrated architecture to help secure access wherever users and applications reside. Since it is delivered via the cloud and included with all of our security products, SecureX helps you do SASE your way. Do SASE your way with Cisco.

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Best Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems: Guide to IDPS

eSecurity Planet

Prevention systems can adjust firewall rules on the fly to block or drop malicious traffic when it is detected but they do not have the robust identification capabilities of detection systems. They may also be included with other security tools, such as next-generation firewalls (NGFW) , and can go by other names, such as threat prevention.

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Best Zero Trust Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

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. Web Application Firewall.