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

Security Boulevard

In cybersecurity, Cisco invested early in IPS, Firewall, VPN, and endpoint security; they produced exceptional results. In 2000, they understood IP telephony, wireless, and load balancing were going and bet big. The result, Cisco dominated these markets for several years. Now, in 2023, the Splunk thing is a whole different issue.

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Data Breach in the Cloud: How to Prevent, Avoid and Reduce

Spinone

Typically, in flight encryption can be accomplished using IPsec VPN tunnels or TLS/SSL for encryption. All too often, organizations regularly perform on-premise backups of critical resources but fail to consider backing up resources in the public cloud. Take Your Cyber Risk Management to the Next Level!

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Why are “Secure” Companies Still Being Hacked?

Security Boulevard

DEMETRIUS MALBROUGH: Yeah, it seems like everyone is focusing and really getting laser focused and honed in on security and dealing with cyber risks and cybersecurity overall. But then clients give the consultants VPN access, so then all that jazz. So it's growing. So it's good. Another target is consulting companies.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry

Krebs on Security

For example, it subscribed to numerous services that can help determine who or what is behind a specific Internet Protocol (IP) address, or whether a given IP is tied to a known virtual private networking (VPN) service. “They are insured for cyber risks, so what are we waiting for?” “We are Conti Group.