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Vulnerability Recap 4/15/24 – Palo Alto, Microsoft, Ivanti Exploits

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Threats range from severe weaknesses in Ivanti’s VPN appliances to zero-day exploits in popular software such as Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS and Telegram’s Windows client. Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

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More sophisticated organizations can further protect identity with investments in tools such as: Application programming interface (API) security : Guards against attacks using program-to-program communication protocols. NetScout: Observed 13,142,840 DDoS attacks, including: 104,216 video gaming enterprise attacks.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

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Organizations that manage their own servers will need to isolate, harden, maintain, and audit DNS servers the same as they would any other high-risk server managing sensitive information. Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

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Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI): Replaces VPN or remote desktop access with virtual desktops in fully controlled environments with additional protections.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

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From there, these tools send alerts to security teams if and when risks are identified. These platforms make it possible for security teams to analyze consolidated threat feeds from various external alerts and log events.

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What is SASE? Secure Access Service Service Edge Explained

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This trend spreads out data center risk over the internet and increases the potential vectors for attack. SASE provides an edge security solution that addresses these challenges without the bottlenecks of traditional virtual private network (VPN) solutions. For additional reading: Top SASE Solutions What Is Edge Security?

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What Is a Next-Generation Firewall?

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Older distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks used malformed TCP requests to overwhelm servers and session filtering drops requests not associated with new or established sessions. Stateful Inspection Stateful inspection firewalls track the behavior of active network connections to detect and block potential data and traffic risks.

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