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How To Set Up a Firewall in 8 Easy Steps + Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Setting up a firewall is the first step in securing your network. A successful firewall setup and deployment requires careful design, implementation, and maintenance to effectively improve your network integrity and data security. Verify that the chosen firewall can meet your security standards and functions.

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Cisco Joins the Launch of Amazon Security Lake

Cisco Security

The Cisco Secure Technical Alliance supports the open ecosystem and AWS is a valued technology alliance partner, with integrations across the Cisco Secure portfolio, including SecureX, Secure Firewall, Secure Cloud Analytics, Duo, Umbrella, Web Security Appliance, Secure Workload, Secure Endpoint, Identity Services Engine, and more.

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Cybersecurity for Small Businesses: 7 Best Practices for Securing Your Business Data

Cytelligence

Here are seven best practices for cybersecurity in small businesses: Employee Education and Training: Provide cybersecurity awareness training to your employees, teaching them about common threats such as phishing emails, social engineering, and the importance of strong passwords. WPA2 or WPA3).

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Who’s Hacking You?

Webroot

Pretending to be someone else, these hackers manipulate their victims into opening doors to systems or unwittingly sharing passwords or banking details. Aside from arming yourself with the knowledge you need to identify attacks, it’s important to install threat detection and remediation software on your devices.

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Fact or Fiction? The Truth About Cybersecurity for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Security Boulevard

Fiction: Strong passwords are enough. Strong passwords are important, but passwords alone won’t keep your enterprise protected. Fiction: Monitoring my edge firewall is the only monitoring needed. Your edge firewall will only inspect traffic that is transiting that firewall.

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Anton on Security

There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. are now joined by DDR (one vendor claimed “Data Detection and Response”) and ITDR (no, not for IT, silly: “Identity Threat Detection and Response”). A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.” EDR and NDR?—?are

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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Security Misconfigurations Inadequately designed security settings, such as open ports, lax access restrictions, or misconfigured firewall rules, might expose infrastructure vulnerabilities. Firewalls Firewalls play an essential role in enhancing the security of your system.