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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. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization.

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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. It’s important to note that disaster recovery (DR) sites are usually not air-gapped due to live VPN between production and the DR site.

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APT groups chain VPN and Windows Zerologon bugs to attack US government networks

Security Affairs

US government networks are under attack, threat actors chained VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to gain unauthorized access to elections support systems. The post APT groups chain VPN and Windows Zerologon bugs to attack US government networks appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DEF CON 31 – Maxime Clementz’ ‘Defeating VPN Always On’

Security Boulevard

Permalink The post DEF CON 31 – Maxime Clementz’ ‘Defeating VPN Always On’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel.

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What Is Security Service Edge (SSE): All You Need to Know

eSecurity Planet

Some organizations use virtual private networks (VPNs) to pull remote user access within the network, but these solutions cause huge bottlenecks and some users will bypass the VPN to access software-as-a-service (SaaS) and third-party websites.

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Akira ransomware received $42M in ransom payments from over 250 victims

Security Affairs

The cybersecurity researchers observed threat actors obtaining initial access to organizations through a virtual private network (VPN) service without multifactor authentication (MFA) configured. “ Akira operators have been observed deploying two distinct ransomware variants against different system architectures within the same attack.

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Zero Trust: Hype vs. Reality

eSecurity Planet

See the Top Zero Trust Security Solutions. Forrester Research developed the formal concept of zero trust more than a decade ago: Zero Trust is an information security model that denies access to applications and data by default. Also read: Most Security Product Buyers Aren’t Getting Promised Results: RSA Panel.