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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.

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Forging the Path to Continuous Audit Readiness

CyberSecurity Insiders

Second, the tasks required to ascertain control and policy compliance details, resolve violations and provide adherence proof are resource intensive and error prone. Protection mechanisms incorporates a wide variety of cyber defenses such as malware, encryption, vulnerability management and firewall technologies.

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Scary Stories to tell in the Network

Security Boulevard

With Halloween around the corner, here’s a real-world firewall policy horror story. As a Sales Engineer, I spend a lot of days doing demos of our products, talking to Security Engineers, Compliance Folks, DevOps Managers, and Read more. The post Scary Stories to tell in the Network appeared first on FireMon.

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Implementing and Maintaining Security Program Metrics

NopSec

Example Security Metrics *Note: This is an example and not to be considered an exhaustive list or necessarily applicable to your specific organization Security Policy/Compliance Adherence Regulatory control compliance Firewall/network security audit data Configuration compliance tracking Compensation control (aka exception) tracking and documentation (..)

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What Is an Application Level Gateway? How ALGs Work

eSecurity Planet

An application gateway, also known as an application level gateway (ALG), functions as a critical firewall proxy for network security. Understanding ALGs involves knowing how they work, their pros and cons, and how they integrate with or differ from other types of firewalls.

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Top 5 Application Security Tools & Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

WAF integration: Web application firewalls (WAF) are a crucial line of defense for web applications, inspecting traffic, enforcing security policies, and protecting against a wide range of web-based attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS).

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Best Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)

eSecurity Planet

There are a number of cybersecurity services to choose from, ranging from managed SIEM to managed detection and response (MDR) , managed firewalls, incident response , and more. Read more: Choosing a Managed Security Service: MDR, Firewalls & SIEM. 11 Leading MSSPs. Delivery: On-premises and cloud. See our in-depth look at IBM.