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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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Why Would Someone Hack My Website?

SiteLock

Joe can use a web application firewall (WAF ) to help protect his blog from bad bots and other malicious traffic. He is the go-to guy when the church wants to post new announcements and events. Luckily Howard kept frequent backups of the church’s website. To prevent a DDoS attack, a web application firewall must be used.

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Introducing Secure Firewall version 7.3

Cisco Security

Introduction to Cisco Secure Firewall 7.3. Cisco’s latest release of Secure Firewall operating system, Secure Firewall Threat Defence Version 7.3, addresses key concerns for today’s firewall customers. allows for the fingerprinting of traffic that is using the QUIC Protocol in Secure Firewall 7.3.

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How to Stop DDoS Attacks: Prevention & Response

eSecurity Planet

A denial-of-service (DoS) event or attack can occur between a small number of devices such as a pair of servers. These events can occur accidentally and even within a corporate network; however, intentional attacks on internet-facing resources are far more common. Also read: How to Secure DNS. Motivations for DDoS Attacks.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs): Improve the general security of a firewall with advanced packet analysis capabilities to block malware and known-malicious sites.

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Abusing cloud services to fly under the radar

Fox IT

At times they have been observed attempting to perform a degree of anti-forensic activities including clearing event logs, time stomping files, and removing scheduled tasks created for some objectives. The text files contain the contents of the Security Event log after the specified date. Maybe because it was never necessary.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

The tools also depend upon physical controls that should also be implemented against malicious physical access to destroy or compromise networking equipment such as routers, cables, switches, firewalls, and other networking appliances. These physical controls do not rely upon IT technology and will be assumed to be in place.

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