eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2024

Blocking a program in a firewall is a security measure that protects systems from unwanted access. This process monitors resource consumption, limits internet access, blocks inbound access from malicious sources, and prevents outbound access from installed apps. Block it if it’s not verified or deemed suspicious.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Companies are obsessed with leveraging cloud-hosted IT infrastructure and the speedy software development and deployment that goes along with that. LW: What does Cisco’s $28 billion acquisition of Splunk signal about the trajectory that network security is on? Is that fair?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Healthcare organizations are taking advantage of the many benefits of cloud and SaaS, accessing apps and data over the Internet. With the benefits of the cloud comes the heavy responsibility of securing sensitive data. Not only is providing secure and reliable access of critical importance, it is a HIPAA requirement.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 18, 2022

The shift to software-defined everything and reliance on IT infrastructure scattered across the Internet has boosted corporate productivity rather spectacularly. Encouragingly, an emerging class of network visibility technology is gaining notable traction. Fast-and-risky has become the working definition of software innovation.

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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 19, 2023

Moreover, understanding basic best practices and the varied variety of software contributing to good IaaS cloud security improves your capacity to construct a strong defense against prospective attacks. What Is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Security?

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

And that’s certainly borne itself out in the IoT report where you have a 62%, greater flaw density, observable flaw density and environments where they are operating IoT devices on the internet. Let’s say you had a printer operating on the internet. To do information security well, you have to take care of the details.

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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. Secure Web Development. DevSecOps and Agile software development including APIs, and microservices and related weaknesses. Policies and Procedures.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

As public and private sector entities gradually march toward 5G, the financial burden of piling security standards could force some Internet of Things device manufacturers to walk away from highly regulated markets like defense. Of course, many security hurdles for IoT device manufacturers are not specific to 5G.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

See the top Patch and Vulnerability Management products August 29, 2023 Juniper Vulnerabilities Expose Network Devices to Remote Attacks A critical vulnerability in Juniper EX switches and SRX firewalls is being tracked as CVE-2023-36844 , CVE-2023-36845 , CVE-2023-36846 , and CVE-2023-36847.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

Although it is your firm’s obligation to keep user data secure at the back-end, there are several ways you can use to assist customers by mandating a minimal level of special characters, as well as the usage signs or numerals. . . Internet scammers are cunning criminals. Use fraud prevention software. Source . .

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

Does CISA agree that the SolarWinds malware could have been neutralized had victim agencies placed firewalls in front of the servers running SolarWinds Orion and configured them to block outgoing connections to the internet?".

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

Third-party vendor systems include Operating Systems (OS), firmware (software installed on hardware), and applications. Patch management seeks to maintain IT equipment in optimal condition and add features when available through the acquisition, testing, and application of third-party software updates (aka: patches).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

Incidents of malware targeting Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices jumped by more than a third in 2021, with three malware families the primary drivers behind the increase. However, with more than 30 billion IoT devices expected to be connected to the internet by 2026, attacks against them can have wide-ranging impacts. “For

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

Organizational data is flowing outside of traditional closed networks and into the cloud, while the 5G-powered Internet of Things (IoT) is vastly multiplying endpoints at risk from attack. These factors spell the end of perimeter security, and in response, we need a zero-trust approach.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The sheer number of security issues underscores the need for strong patch and vulnerability management — and for cyber resilience that goes deeper than common preventive measures. Furthermore, attackers can inject malicious code into the build process, compromising the integrity of software releases and affecting downstream users.

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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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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Regarding the government, it encourages federal systems to invest in secure cloud services, detection and zero-trust architecture, and mandates multifactor authentication, logging, and encryption. “Today, for example, parents looking at two different video baby monitors have no way of knowing which is still more security.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

Does CISA agree that the SolarWinds malware could have been neutralized had victim agencies placed firewalls in front of the servers running SolarWinds Orion and configured them to block outgoing connections to the internet?".

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

In order to execute any commands or extract any data, malware needs to be able to communicate with its command & control (C2) architecture, which almost always involves DNS transactions at some point. Once this communication is blocked, the malicious software essentially becomes inert. The issue likely comes down to awareness.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

We’ll cover their uses and benefits in detail, but here’s a high-level overview to start: External vulnerability scan: Tests the network security of your company from the outside in order to find vulnerabilities and strengthen defenses against outside attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 26, 2023

Confidential computing is a technology and technique that encrypts and stores an organization’s most sensitive data in a secure portion of a computer’s processor — known as the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) — while it’s processed and in use. How Does Confidential Computing Work? We’ve taken a closer look at three of these leaders below.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Related: Why Google’s HTTPS push is a good thing At the time, just 50 % of Internet traffic used encryption. Today the volume of encrypted network traffic is well over 80% , trending strongly toward 100%, according to Google. There is no question that TLS is essential, going forward.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 14, 2019

Trend Micro is among the top five endpoint security vendors who’ve been in the battle since the earliest iterations of antivirus software, more than three decades ago. While endpoint detection and response (EDR) is one of the most significant advancements made by endpoint security vendors in the past six years, enterprises need more.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Vulnerability scanning is critically important for identifying security flaws in hardware and software, but vulnerability scanning types are as varied as the IT environments they’re designed to protect. Agent-Server: The scanner installs agent software on the target host in an agent-server architecture.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

So when there’s a vulnerability reported in VPN products, the IT department is asked to focus on getting that software patched and ready to roll for the next day as soon as possible, and sometimes you can’t do that, or you prioritize other things.”. VPN technology isn’t outdated or obsolete.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The tested stacks are used across a bevy of internet of things devices, industrial equipment and other networked products. “Developing for an embedded world, you don’t know the architecture of the hardware. . “Developing for an embedded world, you don’t know the architecture of the hardware.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 19, 2023

We discussed how the boundaries between in-company and out-of-company IT infrastructure have become increasingly blurred making network security more challenging than ever. As companies adjusted in the post pandemic operating environment, Internet-centric services rose to the fore.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 2021. Promptly Patch Software. A common method for security analysts to test new or unrecognized files is by utilizing a sandbox.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

Vulnerability management relies on accurate lists of existing systems, software, connections, and security. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintains a list of known exploited vulnerabilities that can be referenced to check for active exploitation.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

A firewall policy is a set of rules and standards designed to control network traffic between an organization’s internal network and the internet. It aims to prevent unauthorized access, manage data movement, and guard against potential security threats. The application on Custom Port detects non-standard ports.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It works at the session layer of the open systems interconnection (OSI) model and between the application and transport layers of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) model. Key Circuit-Level Gateway Features Circuit-level gateways provide a very narrow network security solution to manage communication connections.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2023

SD-WAN creates a virtual (overlay) network on top of the physical infrastructure using a software-defined control plane. To be a suitable SD-WAN solution, the system needs to provide fully integrated routing, a full stack of security, and support of the above-mentioned critical features.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

A DMZ network, or a demilitarized zone, is a subnetwork in an enterprise networking environment that contains public-facing resources — such as web servers for company websites — in order to isolate them from an enterprise’s private local area network (LAN).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Portnox is a private company that specializes in network access security with nearly 1,000 customers and closed a Series A fundraising with Elsewhere Partners for $22 million in 2022. Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks.

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