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BrandPost: The Evolving Role of the Firewall in a Hybrid Workplace

CSO Magazine

Many mid-range enterprise firewalls weren’t designed for the volume of throughput necessary to support a hybrid workforce. On top of that, all the filtering and processing it must do to protect against malware over encrypted traffic ultimately slows down Internet speed. To read this article in full, please click here

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BrandPost: 3 Critical Firewall Attributes for Today’s Network

CSO Magazine

In response to massive global attacks, businesses have rightly ramped up security protections such as using greater encryption controls — which can inadvertently slow network traffic. To read this article in full, please click here

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MY TAKE: How ‘CASBs’ are evolving to close the security gaps arising from digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

In the past, for example, companies could get away with using a default password, and depend on firewalls and other internal security tools to provide protection. It can provide encryption and other protections on data so an employee has access when it is needed, or the access can be easily revoked. Everything they need is there.

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Why Public Agencies Are Struggling to Implement Zero Trust

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

They draw upon Software Defined Networks (SDNs), Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), intelligent switches, and other technologies to enforce those access policies. Bush administration, to CSO. I’ll explore Thales Cyber Packs that include authentication and data encryption services, as one path forward in my next blog.

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NEW TECH: Data Theorem helps inventory sprawling APIs — as the first step to securing them

The Last Watchdog

If I go to a CSO and say, ‘We can secure your APIs,’ he’ll say, ‘Great, can you also find them for me?’ ” observed Dwivedi, Data Theorem’s founder. Because companies can’t protect APIs with traditional means, like firewalls, they must find other ways to secure them. And that’s just one phone. Velocity without security.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

My advice for anybody that asks me which certifications they should get is this: find a certification in a subject that you wish to learn about,” Palo Alto Networks CSO Rick Howard said. “If If you are going to study the subject anyway, you might as well get a certification out of it.”. Also read: How to Get Started in a Cybersecurity Career.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege). Protect your business from cyber assaults and never assume that cyber risk management occurs on its own!