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Why BYOD Is the Favored Ransomware Backdoor

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Unmanaged endpoints lack installed protections and ransomware file exfiltration and replacement mimics normal data access traffic between the unmanaged endpoint and the network data resource. The Sophos X-Ops team highlighted the issue in a recent blog , which details how remote encryption evades multiple layers of network security.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

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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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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

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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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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

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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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Best Internet Security Suites & Software for 2022

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Where WiFi 5 routers could get overwhelmed when too many devices attempted to connect which could compromise network security, WiFi 6 routers should alleviate that problem, providing a better internet security suite by preventing attackers from just spamming a router with connect requests. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).

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How to Improve SD-WAN Security

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With SD-WAN architectures, branch employees and remote users connect to an enterprise network through a web of connected devices over the internet. This IT sprawl and surplus of endpoints add complexity to network security. Not every SD-WAN solution is equal, but they all come with some level of security functionality.

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The Biggest Lessons about Vulnerabilities at RSAC 2021

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Last week’s RSA Conference covered a litany of network security vulnerabilities, from developing more robust tokenization policies and to addressing UEFI-based attacks, and non-endpoint attack vectors. Whether it’s a VPN , firewall , or remote access server, unauthorized entry via network gateways is a problem.