eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Citrix, Juniper, VMware and Cisco are just a few of the IT vendors whose products made news for security vulnerabilities in the last week. Collectively, these episodes highlight the need for comprehensive cybersecurity defenses and timely patch management for risk mitigation. MFA should be enabled for all VPN users.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

A recent report from Zscaler found that VPNs are still overwhelmingly popular: 93% of companies surveyed reported that they have used them in some capacity. VPNs are also relatively cheap compared to other popular forms of access.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Remote access, 5G, and VPN. SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). With the pandemic, we have seen an increase in the need for remote or use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), with a general movement towards Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to protect applications and move away from traditional networks.

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McAfee

JUNE 9, 2020

Backhauling internet traffic to a traditional Web Gateway’s “Hub and Spoke” architecture can be very costly. Network slows to a halt as traffics spikes, and VPN for remote workers proved to be ineffective and low performance in a situation like COVID. Legacy Secure Web Gateway architecture in a cloud world.

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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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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Organizations had always historically experienced visibility gaps into employee activities whenever their users were off-VPN while working remotely. To summarize, visibility evaporated, and meanwhile, organizational risk levels spiked parabolically. A graphical depiction of the Security Logging and Analytics On-premises Architecture.

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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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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Organizations had always historically experienced visibility gaps into employee activities whenever their users were off-VPN while working remotely. To summarize, visibility evaporated, and meanwhile, organizational risk levels spiked parabolically. A graphical depiction of the Security Logging and Analytics On-premises Architecture.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Whether you’re operating a global enterprise network or a small family business, your network’s security needs to be optimized with tools, teams, and processes to protect customer data and valuable business assets. Many of these tools protect resources connected to networks, thus shutting down threats as early as possible.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

A recent report from Zscaler found that VPNs are still overwhelmingly popular: 93 percent of companies surveyed reported that they have used them in some capacity. Access to VPNs is also relatively cheap compared to other popular forms of access.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Zero Trust requires that all users are authenticated, authorized, and continuously assessed for risk to access corporate applications and data. Legacy VPN, and related technologies, aren’t just slow, they’re characteristic of technologies that rely on implicit trust. Identify new apps that do not use legacy remote access.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

The #StopRansomware guide is set up as a one-stop resource to help organizations reduce the risk of ransomware incidents through best practices to detect, prevent, respond, and recover from them, including step-by-step approaches to address potential attacks. Anomalous VPN device logins or other suspicious logins.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

People, process & technology framework A successful IAM program requires all three dimensions—people, process, and technology—working in concert to enhance the user experience, fuel efficiency gains, and minimize enterprise risk. Processes enable Identity to power people-centric security.

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

For many companies, “if security was done during the pandemic, it was probably too late,” explained McCarthy’s colleague Sajed Naseem, CISO of New Jersey Courts. And while the court system’s VPN could ostensibly accommodate a safe of 2,500 staffers, McCarthy said its true capacity may actually have been as little as 500.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

An application gateway, also known as an application level gateway (ALG), functions as a critical firewall proxy for network security. Its filtering capability ensures that only certain network application data is transmitted, which has an impact on the security of protocols including FTP, Telnet, RTSP, and BitTorrent.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

Unified threat management (UTM) offers something approaching total security in a box for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), combining multiple network security functions in a single appliance. Some even predict it will all head to the cloud with Secure Service Edge /Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The algorithm allows for variable key sizes and variable rounds to increase randomness and security. AES encryption can be commonly found in communication protocols, virtual private network (VPN) encryption, full-disk encryption, and Wi-Fi transmission protocols. that can perform encryption using less power and memory.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

This trend spreads out data center risk over the internet and increases the potential vectors for attack. SASE provides an edge security solution that addresses these challenges without the bottlenecks of traditional virtual private network (VPN) solutions. What Is SASE? What Are the SASE Benefits?

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Cisco Security

MAY 18, 2022

But while attackers work hard to get into your network, Cisco continues to innovate to keep them out, no matter where your devices or users may go. Key security architectures for safeguarding hybrid work . Most recently, we launched the Cisco Secure Firewall 3100 Series , which is specifically designed for hybrid work.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Strengthening Layers of Security Upstream Host-based firewalls typically work with an additional layer of security positioned “upstream” in the network, like a stronger network firewall or a secure web gateway. Create appropriate test cases and prioritize critical services for continuous functionality.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2022

The massive shift to remote work brought on by the pandemic has revealed weaknesses in access management and insufficient controls over uncontrolled devices and networks, Palo Alto says. Zero trust revolves around the principle that nothing on a network should be trusted and access restricted to only the resources necessary.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Implementing these best practices will not only protect DNS but also network security in general because properly protected DNS can also protect email, endpoints, and other network systems from attack. DNS Server Hardening DNS server hardening can be very complex and specific to the surrounding architecture.

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McAfee

JUNE 22, 2020

By incorporating anti-virus and other security capabilities, the “secure web gateway” became a critical part of modern security architectures. A next-gen SWG should help simplify the implementation of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture and help accelerate secure cloud adoption.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2021

As organizations look to strengthen their network security or update their cybersecurity defenses, the gospel of zero trust awaits. . With the swift adoption of remote work and added difficulty identifying network perimeters, zero trust as a solution is gaining steam. Also Read: Top Zero Trust Security Solutions of 2021 .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 20, 2021

Verizon uncovered additional risks in employees’ use of home Wi-Fi networks and VPNs. The MSI 2021 found that home networks were 70% more risky that corporate networks. Meanwhile, Verizon found in its MSI 2021 that less than half (47%) of respondents with a VPN installed on their devices activated it.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Additionally, even if methods are used to hide the intent of an attack, such as scrubbing logs on a compromised endpoint before they can be shipped to a log analysis system, there is no way to hide actual communications over the network. Key Security Principles. Assume Threat Actor Access.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

Hundreds of reports can be generated automatically with customizable parameters such as traffic activity, security, applications, Web, networking, threats, VPN, email and compliance. A redundant architecture approach eliminates single points of failure. Good performance comes courtesy of ASIC-based appliances.

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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. The fact that multiple security solutions typically operate in distinct siloes compounds management effort and costs. Threat Protection.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Only by integrating these tools into your larger security reporting and analytics infrastructure, and by leveraging actionable responses, can one reduce the threat risk to an organization. We here in the Cisco Secure Technical Alliance (CSTA) live by that principle. Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Read more here.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 5, 2021

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.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2022

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. This order acknowledges the widespread adoption of cloud and -as-a-Service resources as well as the increasing risk to these assets using legacy IT security.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

The emergence of SD-WAN and SASE technologies bundled together has led many vendors to address both advanced routing and network security vendors for clients. Networking specialists like Cisco and HPE’s Aruba are moving deeper into security. Features: Fortinet Secure SD-WAN.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

More sophisticated organizations can further protect identity with investments in tools such as: Application programming interface (API) security : Guards against attacks using program-to-program communication protocols. Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture.

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