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GUEST ESSAY: The case for leveraging hardware to shore up security — via a co-processor

The Last Watchdog

Security remains an added expense that isn’t easy to market, especially when third-party software solutions have been so widely adopted. The good news is, artificial intelligence is here and is showing great promise to deliver what the market needs, that is, pre-emptive and proactive threat detection.

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Is Cisco’s Acquisition of Splunk a Shade of Brilliance or Madness?

Security Boulevard

Many acquisitions take several months and even years to incorporate the various technical capabilities, merge sales and marketing efforts, and support the current install base. The result, Cisco dominated these markets for several years. In 2000, they understood IP telephony, wireless, and load balancing were going and bet big.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 455 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

million cryptojacking scheme arrested in Ukraine Cybercrime Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8

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Time to Accept the Risk of Open Source?

Security Boulevard

Even with extensive firewalls, IDS, email security, zero-trust, ransomware, identity threat, and business email compromise protection, attacks still have a substantial financial impact on organizations. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and quantum computing reduce risk.

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How Machine Learning Can Advance Cybersecurity Landscape

Spinone

While human beings still provide the key operational oversight and intelligent insights into today’s infrastructure, machine learning and artificial intelligence are gaining huge momentum in most areas of today’s systems, whether positioned on-premise or in the cloud. What are they exactly?

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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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4 Best Antivirus Software of 2021

eSecurity Planet

A network firewall. For an introductory price of $45 a year for 10 Windows and macOS devices and unlimited Android and iOS devices, you get predictive artificial intelligence (AI) threat detection that can stop unknown threats and learns by experience (how cool is that?), Two-way firewall. Virtual private network ( VPN ).