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Cisco Secure Firewall Garners a ‘Hat-Trick’

Cisco Security

Along similar lines, Cisco Secure Firewall celebrates three scores in 2021: Cisco was the only vendor recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Best Practices Market Leadership Award for excellence in the network firewall market. Cisco Secure Firewall also received the 2021 Nutanix Technology Alliances New Partner of the Year Award.

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Next-Generation Firewalls: A comprehensive guide for network security modernization

CyberSecurity Insiders

The terms computer security, information security and cybersecurity were practically non-existent in the 1980s, but believe it or not, firewalls have existed in some form since that time. Over the years, the traditional firewall has transformed to meet the demands of the modern workplace and adapt to an evolving threat landscape.

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Rorschach ransomware has the fastest file-encrypting routine to date

Security Affairs

A new ransomware strain named Rorschach ransomware supports the fastest file-encrypting routine observed to date. The researchers conducted five separate encryption speed tests in a controlled environment (with 6 CPUs, 8192MB RAM, SSD, and 220000 files to be encrypted), limited to local drive encryption only.

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Introducing next-generation firewall from Palo Alto Networks to support 5G-enabled IoT, OT and IT use cases

CyberSecurity Insiders

Next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks with AT&T Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) solutions are designed to help protect enterprises while optimizing security performance for these new use cases. Some on-premises use cases for this include video AI, synchronous media collaboration and industrial manufacturing.

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miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin was affected by a critical auth bypass bug

Security Affairs

Instead of requiring visitors to waste time filling out the typical registration form, it allows them to register/login to a website using their social media profiles. “This is due to insufficient encryption on the user being supplied during a login validated through the plugin. .” ” continues the report.

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GUEST ESSAY: A roadmap to achieve a better balance of network security and performance

The Last Watchdog

Even before COVID, enterprises saw huge increases in people working outside the traditional corporate firewall. Pervasive encryption: Most application and Internet traffic is now encrypted by default, making it much harder to secure the network from malicious traffic. Trends like: • More distributed users and applications.

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Five Tips for Ensuring Communications Security in Your Organization

CyberSecurity Insiders

Firewalls should be implemented between any wireless networks and the organization’s internal network. Firewall configurations should be implemented to restrict connections between untrusted networks and any systems in the protected information environment to only what is necessary. Set cryptography controls and encryption.