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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Implement rate limiting to harden against DDoS and DNS tunneling attacks. Anti-DDoS configurations can enhance server architecture DDoS to protect DNS. Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

What's more, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has made social engineering methods more complex, covert, and difficult to detect. In turn, this has left organizations and individuals far behind in the race to secure defenses appropriately. How does AI-powered social engineering affect businesses?

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

With faster response times, a more centralized platform, and artificial intelligence-powered workflows, many companies select XDR tools to optimize or go beyond what their SIEM and UEBA tools can do. BAS works in the background of daily operations and is frequently automated with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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What Is a Next-Generation Firewall?

eSecurity Planet

Older distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks used malformed TCP requests to overwhelm servers and session filtering drops requests not associated with new or established sessions. Automatically dropping unauthorized and unwanted traffic also reduces the number of packets upon which an NGFW will need to perform deep packet inspection.

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Top Cybersecurity Products for 2021

eSecurity Planet

It uses AI-powered threat detection and response to keep up with attackers who incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning into their methods. As a whole, the Cisco suite is a powerful zero trust security solution. SentinelOne. SentinelOne is another feature-rich EDR solution. CASB benefits. Integration.

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What is SASE? Secure Access Service Service Edge Explained

eSecurity Planet

Security will become centralized, integrated, and simplified and operations can improve by removing any VPN and local firewall bottlenecks. As SASE continues to evolve and improve, the cloud-based SASE solutions will quickly deploy upgrades and enable artificial intelligence (AI) enhancement as well.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Vendor reports note huge volume of attacks on local and public infrastructure, such as: CrowdStrike: Monitored hacktivist and nation-state distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks related to the Israli-Palestinian conflict, including against a US airport. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers.