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

The Last Watchdog

In today’s digitally transformed environment, companies must monitor and defend systems housed on-premises and in overlapping public and private clouds. The concept of the firewall has changed,” Foust maintains. Now identity is the new firewall; identity is the boundary that must be protected. Unified access.

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NEWS ANALYSIS Q&A: Striving for contextual understanding as digital transformation plays out

The Last Watchdog

That cloud transformation and pooling of threat and response data was fundamental to the second transformation: deploying and applying AI-based cybersecurity technologies that range from training and reinforcement learning of detection models to incident response playbook production and auto-response. They’re not AI engineers.

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Streamlining detection engineering in security operation centers

SecureList

firewall) replacement. Instead, they rely on the default severity in the rule, which is often set randomly or based on an engineer’s opinion without a clear process. A structured program must be put in place to ensure that the SOC’s investment and efforts in detection engineering are used efficiently.

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Is your firewall stuck in the 80s?

Cisco Security

Modernize your firewall for greater security resilience. Cybersecurity has changed dramatically since the dawn of firewalls in the 1980s. Today’s workers, data, and applications are everywhere, and firewalls must be as well. So, can your firewall grow with you? The firewall is a critical foundation for security.

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GUEST ESSAY: Embracing ‘Zero Trust’ can help cloud-native organizations operate securely

The Last Watchdog

By using flexible, modular container technologies such as Kubernetes and microservices, development teams are better equipped to streamline and accelerate the application lifecycle, which in turn enables the business to deliver on their ambitious digital transformation initiatives. Sivasankaran.

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MY TAKE: The back story on the convergence, continuing evolution of endpoint security

The Last Watchdog

In this fast-evolving, digitally-transformed, business environment, enterprises in 2018 will spend a record $3.8 Security vendors responded with new systems designed to detect and quarantine malware that slipped through signature-based antivirus detectors and firewalls — before any harm could be done. “We

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MY TAKE: Why companies had better start taking the security pitfalls of API proliferation seriously

The Last Watchdog

Over the past year, I’ve had several deep conversations parsing how APIs have emerged as a two-edged sword: APIs accelerate digital transformation, but they also vastly expand the attack surface of modern business networks. -based supplier of networking technology. organizations and 60,000 German entities.