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

Security Boulevard

Companies acquiring technology to solve an existing problem will be less likely to see any positive return. In cybersecurity, Cisco invested early in IPS, Firewall, VPN, and endpoint security; they produced exceptional results. The result, Cisco dominated these markets for several years.

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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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SOCwise Series: A Tale of Two SOCs with Chris Crowley

McAfee

their ability to keep up with security technology. ? . another thing about technology, and this is kind of a dirty secret in technology applications, is a lot of people buy it but actually never get it deployed fully,” Chris said. ? . The most common used technologies reported in the survey were: .

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4 Best Antivirus Software of 2021

eSecurity Planet

A network firewall. Virtual private network ( VPN ). 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.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals. When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Definition, Threats & Protections 10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know Overall Network Security Best Practices Best practices for network security directly counter the major threats to the network with specific technologies and controls. These physical controls do not rely upon IT technology and will be assumed to be in place.

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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. Unlike EDR, NDR focuses less on actual devices and more on network traffic behavior analysis via packet data.