eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A firewall audit is a procedure for reviewing and reconfiguring firewalls as needed so they still suit your organization’s security goals. Auditing your firewall is one of the most important steps to ensuring it’s still equipped to protect the perimeter of your business’ network.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 15, 2025

Enable Input Filtering : Network administrators should implement web application firewalls (WAF) and traffic inspection tools to detect malicious payloads targeting router endpoints. Restrict Admin Panel Access : Ensure that the router’s administrative interface is only accessible from the local network or through secure VPN connections.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A penetration testing report discloses the vulnerabilities discovered during a penetration test to the client. Penetration test reports deliver the only tangible evidence of the pentest process and must deliver value for a broad range of readers and purposes.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Threat hunting is the practice of actively seeking out dangers to cyber security by detecting and eliminating new and emerging threats that are able to evade preventative controls such as firewalls and antivirus software. Finally, remember that the technologies used in threat hunting are not a quick fix. SIEMs vs. UEBAs.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 19, 2024

Today, Ollmann is the CTO of IOActive , a Seattle-based cybersecurity firm specializing in full-stack vulnerability assessments, penetration testing and security consulting. LW: In what noteworthy ways have legacy technologies evolved? We recently reconnected. Here’s what we discussed, edited for clarity and length?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Encryption Product Guides Top 10 Full Disk Encryption Software Products 15 Best Encryption Software & Tools Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions share some similarities with vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions.

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Pen Test Partners

MAY 21, 2025

Host-based Firewall Its not uncommon to find host-based firewalls to be missing or disabled, particularly for Windows hosts and Embedded Systems. Even when a host firewall is enabled, overly permissive firewall rules often allow unintended network access.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2020

Based in Bengalura, India, Indusface helps its customers defend their applications with a portfolio of services that work in concert with its flagship web application firewall ( WAF ,) a technology that has been around for about 15 years. This can save manhours and help you reduce risk more effectively.

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Penetration Testing

AUGUST 15, 2024

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has called upon organizations across the country to extensively implement cyber deception technologies as part of a national strategy for cyber defense....

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Pen Test

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction As we navigate through the complexities of modern cybersecurity penetration testing (pentesting) remains a crucial practice for organisations and individuals alike. In this guide, we will walk you through a comprehensive step-by-step process to build your own pentest lab, tailored to the demands and technologies of 2024.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Definition, Threats & Protections 10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know Overall Network Security Best Practices Best practices for network security directly counter the major threats to the network with specific technologies and controls. These physical controls do not rely upon IT technology and will be assumed to be in place.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals. When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The number of security technologies often results in fragmented data and hinders a comprehensive threat-hunting approach. Understanding Disparate Security Technologies Modern organisations employ a variety of security technologies to safeguard their digital assets. Each solution generates logs and alerts, creating data silos.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For instance, they might want to test new signatures published by their firewall vendor, before pushing it out, to make sure there are no regression issues. DeSanto: We started asking ourselves, ‘What if you can take that same level of quality and testing, and do that within the live network? LW: Engagements?

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Centraleyes

MAY 8, 2025

Costs for labor, technology, and services have all increased in the past couple of years. As vendors adjust prices, so do the fees for services such as vulnerability scanning, penetration testing , and continuous monitoring. Enhanced Testing Requirements: With PCI DSS 4.0, penetration testing is more rigorous.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Cloud security consists of all the technologies and processes that ensure an organization’s cloud infrastructure is protected against internal and external cybersecurity threats. What are the results of the provider’s most recent penetration tests? What is cloud security? Understand your shared responsibility model.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT). Traditionally, this technology implicitly distrusts external traffic and implicitly trusts internal traffic. or segregated as cloud or network attached storage (NAS).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

However, before we dig into the technologies, let’s first examine why we need them. Industries with very expensive operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as healthcare or industrial manufacturing, can be especially vulnerable. The Scope of the Unfixable Device Problem. Network segmentation.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

Gartner analyst Pete Shoard advised that being as clear as possible about your needs is key to selecting the right service, noting that offerings can range from managing a single technology to sharing the responsibility for operating a security platform to full outsourcing of security operations. DXC Technology. 11 Leading MSSPs.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This penetration testing can generate a payload and, above all, emulate incoming connections with the infected machine once the hacker is in. Even if there’s a firewall enabled, it won’t block outgoing TCP connections. You should also perform penetration tests and patch vulnerabilities regularly.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

Legacy technologies with known vulnerabilities also fall under vulnerability management and, whether formally acknowledged or not, organizations accept the inherent risk of the vulnerable technologies by continuing to use them. Many vulnerabilities, such as legacy tech, cannot be fixed using patches.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Security tends to be viewed as a discrete discipline within information technology as opposed to just natively bake into everything. Penetration tests are awesome but you're $20k in the hole and you've tested one version of one app. Web application firewalls can be great and they sit there and (usually) protect one asset.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 17, 2022

It can certainly be said that advances in technology have had a huge impact on cybersecurity in recent years. It was once the case that cybersecurity technology consisted of little more than a firewall and antivirus software. With technology like this, there's no real need for human input at all.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 7, 2024

Cyber espionage, a subset of cyber warfare, focuses on the covert theft of sensitive information or intellectual property, further fueling the race for technological superiority. These nations engage in a constant game of one-upmanship, seeking to outpace their rivals in technological innovation and operational capabilities.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The US Department of Justice announced the unsealing of an indictment against Guan Tianfeng, a Chinese national associated with Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co. for his alleged role in... The post CVE-2020-12271 Exploited: FBI Seeks Chinese Hacker Behind 81,000 Device Breach appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

Read more : Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Solutions. Sonar’s technology is available as a self-managed (SonarQube) or SaaS-based (SonarCloud) solution, and clients can choose between Developer, Enterprise, and Data Center plans. Read more : Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Vendors. Invicti Security. Sonar Features.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 7, 2025

Firewalls, Routers, and Switches): Threat Resilience: Devices must demonstrate resistance against known attack vectors, including DDoS attacks, buffer overflows, and man-in-the-middle attempts. Tamper Resistance: Physical and logical tamper resistance is assessed through penetration testing and fault injection methods.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

From here you might decide to extract the dropper websites and block them on your firewall/proxy/etc. During my PhD program I worked for US Government (@ National Institute of Standards and Technology, Security Division) where I did intensive researches in Malware evasion techniques and penetration testing of electronic voting systems.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Whether perceived or real, a lack of understanding about blockchain technology has slowed the adoption of advanced distributed database technology in the past decade. We’ll look at what blockchain technology is, how its development relates to cybersecurity, and the state of blockchain-based security solutions.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

No matter how many firewalls or network controls you have in place, the risk of insider threat will always be present. Conduct regular network penetration tests to identify flaws and vulnerabilities in your corporate networks. Implement the right tools, processes, and technology – based on the needs of your organization.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 21, 2021

Vulnerability scanning should not be confused with penetration testing , which is about exploiting vulnerabilities rather than indicating where potential vulnerabilities may lie. It can be used in conjunction with penetration testing tools, providing them with areas to target and potential weaknesses to exploit.

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PCI perspectives

AUGUST 31, 2022

Recently, our organization teamed up with the Consumer Technology Association to issue a joint bulletin on a very important topic, security surrounding the Internet of Things, or IoT.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

History of MSSPs As internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies (telecoms) began offering commercial access to the internet in the late 1990s, they began to also offer firewall appliances and associated managed services. and then monitors the endpoint alerts to respond to detected threats.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Standard features of security as a service vendors include many of the same benefits of having an SOC, like 24/7/365 monitoring, cybersecurity expertise, managed detection and response (MDR), network security, penetration testing , incident response , and threat intelligence. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) .

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

CISA is ISACA’s (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) high-level certification designed for those who audit, control, monitor, and assess an organization’s information technology and business systems. The 4-5 hour exam includes up to 180 questions. Training is available in a variety of formats.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Deny-lists (aka: blacklist) : Blocks specific websites or IP addresses by adding them to a list for firewalls to ignore; very difficult to manage at scale. Next generation (NGFW) or web and application firewalls (WAF) : Include DDoS protection within the large number of features and capabilities to protect network traffic.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2020

We discussed steps Virsec is taking to direct its deep-detection technologies towards the design phase of creating new apps. Hacking groups today routinely do this; they cover their tracks by injecting malicious code well beneath the purview of legacy firewalls, intrusion detection tools and data loss prevention systems.

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