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Threat Trends: Firewall

Cisco Security

In any perimeter defense a key component is firewalls—the proverbial guard towers in your fortifications. In this Threat Trends release, we’ll be looking at Cisco Secure Firewall. The goal is to highlight the common threats that organizations encounter and block with Secure Firewall. Secure Firewall version 7.0

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MY TAKE: Here’s why identities are the true firewalls, especially as digital transformation unfolds

The Last Watchdog

Related article: Taking a ‘zero-trust’ approach to authentication. This presents a convoluted matrix to access the company network — and an acute exposure going largely unaddressed in many organizations. The concept of the firewall has changed,” Foust maintains. Unified access.

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How to Perform a Firewall Audit in 11 Steps (+Free Checklist)

eSecurity Planet

A firewall audit is a procedure for reviewing and reconfiguring firewalls as needed so they still suit your organization’s security goals. Auditing your firewall is one of the most important steps to ensuring it’s still equipped to protect the perimeter of your business’ network.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on content management systems (CMS) — and how to secure them

The Last Watchdog

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Passwordless Authentication, This is the Way

Duo's Security Blog

From having to deal with patching, firewalls, network zone segmentation of accumulated security debt. The Progression to Passwordless Authentication Let’s look at the natural progression of life. The next step is the move into multi-factor authentication (MFA ). Therein lies the rub. But, what about the future?

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MY TAKE: New tech standards, like ‘Matter’ and ‘BIMI,’ point the way to secure interoperability

The Last Watchdog

Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. Spoofed email is getting through our firewalls and filtering systems because the attackers are constantly migrating and finding new ways to penetrate these systems,” Coclin says.

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Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q3 2024

SecureList

Statistics on registered vulnerabilities As is customary, this section presents statistics on registered vulnerabilities. Exploitation statistics This section presents statistics on exploit usage in Q3 2024. Interesting vulnerabilities This section presents information about vulnerabilities of interest that were registered in Q3 2024.