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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2022

However, VPN pipes have become less efficient with the rising use of personally-owed mobile devices increasing reliance on cloud-centric IT resources. Clements: A decade ago having a remote access VPN was the assumed default. LW: What about SMBs; how does a traditional VPN service fit as cloud migration deepens?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2024

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. SSE eliminates these bandwidth-wasting practices to improve performance and user experience.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Technology: Technology is the foundation for an IAM program delivery within a layered security architecture. Gartner has projected that by 2025, more than 60% of organizations will move away from VPN and rely on ZTNA. Nation-state attackers have exploited high-severity vulnerabilities in legacy VPN platforms to breach networks.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Those wonderful words of ‘Denied Access’ appear in your browser; you need to connect to the corporate VPN to access your pay stub. If you are like me, you sigh, and put your machine to sleep because the workflow for your VPN requires far too much effort for something that should be a simple and quick process.

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Cytelligence

JULY 30, 2020

In almost all cases , some form of RDP/RDG or VPN was utilized to allow access to corporate resources. However, Cytelligence found that in many cases security best practices were either only partially implemented or entirely overlooked , resulting in failures. . when exposed directly to the internet.

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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. Global/Multi-Site Enterprise Architecture Many organizations are using Global/Multi-site with dated technology spread throughout data centers and networks mixed in with some newer technologies.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

News that Virtual Private Network ( VPN ) provider NordVPN was breached spread quickly. While the breach of a major VPN service is newsworthy, this one wasn’t particularly. But one of the watchwords of good cyber hygiene, a VPN, was breached. Who Is Using VPNs? The incident put NordVPN in the hot seat.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malware family, named Cuttlefish, which targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data from internet traffic. The binary analyzed by the researchers is compiled for all major architectures used by SOHO operating systems.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

IPsec and SSL virtual private networking ( VPN ). Fortinet FortiGate NGFWs offer integrated Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) enforcement, SD-WAN and security processing units to allow customers to build hybrid IT architectures at any scale and deliver zero trust strategy protection any user, application, and edge with optimal user experience.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2023

through 4.73, VPN series firmware versions 4.60 The researchers warned that as of May 19, there were at least 42,000 instances of Zyxel devices on the public internet. Since the vulnerability is in the VPN service, which is enabled by default on the WAN, we expect the actual number of exposed and vulnerable devices to be much higher.”

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

The DNG now allows users to access on-premises applications and desktops securely and easily via RDP, without requiring a VPN connection. To learn how this feature works, check out the blog post How New Duo Feature Lets Users Skip the VPN Hassle from two Duo Engineering team members. DNG gives us time back to focus on the business.”

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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

JUNE 17, 2022

We can generally interpret these definitions as encouragement to treat all resources as if they are fully exposed to the internet and as if all users are attacking. Zero trust architecture (ZTA) addresses the modern reality that our assets and users no longer operate primarily within a controlled and secured enterprise network.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Each user also has access to a free VPN to use when connecting to public Wi-Fi, and an Identity Dashboard that scans the dark web for potential fraud.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Over the past year, the firm noted a substantial increase in the number of initial access listings for sale on the dark web in 2020, particularly those for VPN access which “flourished off the back of increased remote working trends.” . VPNs are also relatively cheap compared to other popular forms of access.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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McAfee

MARCH 5, 2021

Costly Infrastructure – MPLS connections, VPN concentrators, and huge centralized network security infrastructure represent major investments with significant operational expense. A recent blog by McAfee detailed four architectural approaches based on the willingness to embrace new technologies and bring them together.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

computer name, user name, OS version, architecture type, list of installed anti-malware products) to the operators. The list of information stolen by the malware includes emails, FTPs, VPN clients, etc. It also supports a feature to register itself to Task Scheduler for the same purpose. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The IT giant is tracking this cluster of threat activity as DEV-1061. The bot is saved using the filename “zero.”.

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IoT DDOS Malware Firmware 112

McAfee

JUNE 9, 2020

Today, with increased cloud adoption, more than eighty percent of corporate network traffic is destined for the internet. Backhauling internet traffic to a traditional Web Gateway’s “Hub and Spoke” architecture can be very costly. Legacy Secure Web Gateway architecture in a cloud world.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know. Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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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. Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or ping requests. Anti-DDoS Architecture. All resources should be patched and fully updated.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It often involves requests for files, web pages, or other internet services. Their architecture fails to accommodate the stateless nature of UDP, resulting in poor performance and restricted application. By deploying ALGs alongside VPN gateways or concentrators, you can enforce policies and apply security measures to VPN traffic.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

The fall of VPNs and firewalls The cyberthreats and trends of 2023 send a clear message to organizations: they must evolve their security strategies to the times and embrace a zero trust architecture. Enterprise tools under attack 2023 saw threat actors, groups, and families pivot to targeting providers of core enterprise tools.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

million RDP servers are exposed to the internet alone.?The Given the threats surrounding a machine that is accessible via RDP through the internet, we can instead place those machines behind a front-end, such as the Duo Network Gateway (DNG), without foregoing the streamlined end user experience people have grown accustomed to.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2023

The experts discovered that the malicious code had been compiled for different architectures. The AVrecon malware was written in C to ensure portability and designed to target ARM-embedded devices. ” concludes the report.

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McAfee

MARCH 20, 2020

As companies shift from working in an office within their controlled network to working from home, many are finding that the architectures they have in place aren’t ready for the scalability and security challenges of a decentralized workforce. The internet is accessed directly , without a VPN. Direct internet access .

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McAfee

AUGUST 18, 2020

Not having one vs the other creates vulnerabilities within your cloud architecture. With this spike of remote workforce that will continue to trend, VPN is no longer a need for the road warriors but required for majority of the company’s employee.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

The trends to adopt Internet of Things (IoT) devices, remote work , and cloud resources drastically increase the amount of communication outside of the traditional network that needs to be secured. This trend spreads out data center risk over the internet and increases the potential vectors for attack. What Is SASE?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

RADIUS and TACACS+ apply to specific types of endpoints, but the ZTNA-as-a-Service product works for all kinds of devices, including Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) endpoints, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, operations technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), and industrial IoT (IIoT).

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IoT Authentication VPN Backups 98

eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

SD-WAN is a virtual architecture for managing a wide-area network covering distributed, hybrid IT environments typical for today’s enterprise organizations. With SD-WAN architectures, branch employees and remote users connect to an enterprise network through a web of connected devices over the internet. What is SD-WAN?

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McAfee

JUNE 22, 2020

SWGs are still largely focused on ensuring users are protected from unsafe or non-compliant corners of the internet, but the transition to a cloud- and remote-working world has created new security challenges that the traditional SWG is no longer equipped to handle. Another issue revolves the encrypted nature of the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2021

Early SD-WAN solutions “were built only to replace an MPLS-VPN with an Internet-based VPN,” Ahuja says. A paradigm shift in fundamental network architecture is sorely needed. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 24, 2021

We believe that there will be continuous changes happening with new laws/regulations related to the Internet of Things and the devices that are intended to improve our lifestyle. Remote access, 5G, and VPN. We suggest that all cybersecurity professionals be informed on these topics as they evolve. Privacy laws. Supply chain challenges.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2021

More details about that gang can be found in our articles Ransomware world in 2021: who, how and why and Sodin ransomware exploits Windows vulnerability and processor architecture. Promptly installing available patches for commercial VPN solutions providing access for remote employees and acting as gateways in your network.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

With Aruba, clients can also bundle SD-WAN coverage with the company’s security solutions for virtual private network ( VPN ), network access control ( NAC ), and unified threat management ( UTM ). EdgeConnect Enterprise critically comes with firewall , segmentation , and application control capabilities. What is an SD-WAN Solution?

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