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What Is a Next-Generation Firewall?

eSecurity Planet

A next generation firewall (NGFW) performs deep packet inspection to check the contents of the data flowing through the firewall. Unlike more basic firewalls that only check the header of data packets, NGFWs examine and evaluate the payload data within the packet. Who Needs a Next-Gen Firewall?

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What is physical security? How to keep your facilities and devices safe from on-site attackers

CSO Magazine

All the firewalls in the world can’t help you if an attacker removes your storage media from the storage room. To read this article in full, please click here Learn what you need to know about defending critical infrastructure. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ].

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 465 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 455 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 450 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Giving Smaller Businesses The Critical Power Of Large Community Threat Intelligence: A High-Level Look at CrowdSec

Joseph Steinberg

If you have not yet read my article on the aforementioned subject, I strongly suggest taking a look.). In some ways, CrowdSec mimics the behavior of a constantly-self-updating, massive, multi-party, and multi-network firewall. Levels 3 Network and Level 4 Transport) rules. CrowdSec released version 1.0

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Hackers take over 1.1 million accounts by trying reused passwords

Malwarebytes

You can find information on how to use that site in our article “ Have I been pwnd?”– Other more user-friendly solutions are bot detection methods and application firewalls. More complex bot detection methods use behavioral analysis and artificial intelligence to detect login attempts that are seen as abnormal.

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