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How to Perform a Firewall Audit in 11 Steps (+Free Checklist)

eSecurity Planet

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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Zyxel Security Vulnerabilities: DoS, Command Injection & More

Penetration Testing

Zyxel’s recent security advisory spotlights multiple vulnerabilities present in select firewall and access point models. Failure to take immediate action could leave these devices open to severe security risks.

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What is Cybersecurity Risk Management?

eSecurity Planet

Risk management is a concept that has been around as long as companies have had assets to protect. Risk management also extends to physical devices, such as doors and locks to protect homes and vehicles, vaults to protect money and precious jewels, and police, fire, and CCTV to protect against other physical risks.

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Malware Evolves to Present New Threats to Developers

Security Boulevard

Network control measures like firewalls, secure socket layer (SSL), and data loss prevention (DLP) tools sought to outmaneuver malicious code rather than directly combat it. While software developers faced no additional risk from malware during this time, trouble was lurking just around the corner. The Cloud Era.

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Do Not Confuse Next Generation Firewall And Web Application Firewall

SiteLock

Let us start with the abbreviations that define the categories of information security products: WAF stands for Web Application Firewall , NGFW stands for Next Generation Firewall. NGFW (or Next Generation Firewall) is an evolution of traditional firewalls and serves to delimit access between network segments.

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Multiple Brocade SANnav SAN Management SW flaws allow device compromise

Security Affairs

According to the advisory published by Broadcom, Brocade SANnav doesn’t have access to remote Docker registries, and knowledge of the keys is a minimal risk as SANnav is prevented from communicating with Docker registries. then) and confirmed that all the previously rejected vulnerabilities were still present in the version 2.2.2

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Feature Update: Reduce Asset Risk with Mitigating Controls

NopSec

Overview NopSec provides the most accurate risk-based vulnerability prioritization across an organization’s entire attack surface. One key element of this is contextualized risk prioritizations based on a client’s specific industry, network configuration, the compensating and mitigating controls they implement.

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