SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2024

It is essential to understand the risks posed by quantum computing, as future advancements could compromise today's encrypted data, opening new opportunities for threat actors. Current efforts to address quantum threats Recognizing these risks, organizations and governments are developing quantum-resistant cryptographic methods.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 5, 2024

Cloudflare wants to help organizations wall off their large-language models (LLMs) from cyberthreats and give enterprises an AI framework to ward off risks, many of which are themselves based on the emerging technology. The post Cloudflare Unveils a Firewall Designed to Keep LLMs Safe appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Cisco warned customers of password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices. Recently, tesearchers from Positive Technologies warned that unknown threat actors have attempted to exploit the now-patched vulnerability CVE-2024-37383 (CVSS score: 6.1)

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 23, 2019

I recently sat down with Gadi Naor, CTO and co-founder of Alcide , to learn more about the “microservices firewall” this Tel Aviv-based security start-up is pioneering. But they must also find a way to dial-in the proper amount of resiliency to cyber exposures, or risk losing public trust.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The American Water cyber breach underscores the risk of cyber threats in various sectors traditionally seen as less vulnerable compared to industries like finance or healthcare. 7 How To Avoid Such Cyberattacks Utility companies, like American Water, face increasing risks from cybercriminals.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A next generation firewall (NGFW) performs deep packet inspection to check the contents of the data flowing through the firewall. Unlike more basic firewalls that only check the header of data packets, NGFWs examine and evaluate the payload data within the packet. Who Needs a Next-Gen Firewall?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What I came away with is that many of the new cloud-centric security frameworks and tools fit as components of proactive security, while familiar legacy solutions, like firewalls and SIEMs, can be categorized as either preventative or reactive security. LW: How does ‘risk-based vulnerability management’ factor in?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

The directive applies to any networking devices — such as firewalls, routers and load balancers — that allow remote authentication or administration. “COVID-19 extended the life of these companies and technologies, and that’s unfortunate.”

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As Technology Audit Director at Cisco, Jacob Bolotin focuses on assessing Cisco’s technology, business, and strategic risk. Bolotin champions the continued advancement of the technology audit profession and received a master’s degree in cybersecurity from the University of California Berkeley.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2025

As a European provider, Link11 addresses the current business risks associated with geopolitical uncertainties and growing compliance requirements. With the acquisitions of DOSarrest in 2021 and Reblaze Technologies in 2024, Link11 has expanded its market position. At the end of 2023, Link11 secured an investment of 26.5

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Only by integrating these tools into your larger security reporting and analytics infrastructure, and by leveraging actionable responses, can one reduce the threat risk to an organization. An integration with Cigent Technology is now available for Secure Endpoint customers to integrate with. Cisco Secure Firewall integrations.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

Technology advancements have made it relatively easy for many employees to carry out their regular job duties from the comfort of their home. Set up firewalls. Firewalls act as a defense line in preventing the possibility of threats entering your system. Firewalls help, but threats will inevitably get through.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 18, 2025

What was once a contest of firewalls and intrusion detection, is now a high-stakes game driven by AI. On the other, hackers are harnessing the same technology to outpace defences, sharing AI-enhanced strategies that make them faster, smarter, cheaper and more adaptable. Cybersecurity has entered a new era.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Identity as the digital perimeter and data protection are mission critical to foster digital trust, enable service assurance, and minimize enterprise risk. Legacy technologies such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) do not scale and have been proven to be fraught with risk as evidenced by incidents such as nation-state attacks.

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I was recently asked to take a look at CrowdSec – a new, free, open-source information security technology created in France that seeks to improve the current situation. In some ways, CrowdSec mimics the behavior of a constantly-self-updating, massive, multi-party, and multi-network firewall.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2023

By Jayakumar (Jay) Kurup, Global Sales Engineering Director at Morphisec Securing operational technology (OT) creates unique challenges. Sometimes this is due to cultural reasons (management’s fear of even the slightest chance of disruption); other times, it is technological. You try to air-gap it. Great in theory.

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Webroot

JANUARY 13, 2025

For MSPs, this means your customers need more than basic firewalls and endpoint protection. Anything less, and you risk leaving customers vulnerable to costly breaches. With advanced threat detection and remediation powered by SIEM and SOAR technology, it quickly spots and shuts down threats before they can do any damage.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

What’s more, it will likely take a blend of legacy security technologies – in advanced iterations – combined with a new class of smart security tools to cut through the complexities of defending contemporary business networks. They’re now the norm and security teams must assess and manage the risk of these stacks.”. Legacy tech’s role.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

With the increasing reliance on digital technologies for operational efficiency, this sector has become a prime target for sophisticated cyber and physical threats. Regularly updating and patching systems, including antivirus software, firewalls, and SCADA networks, can mitigate this risk.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A host-based firewall is installed directly on individual networked devices to filter network traffic on a single device by inspecting both incoming and outgoing data. How Host-Based Firewalls Work Organizations often adopt host-based firewalls for device-specific security control.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

Firewall rules are preconfigured, logical computing controls that give a firewall instructions for permitting and blocking network traffic. Network admins must configure firewall rules that protect their data and applications from threat actors. It manages inbound web server traffic, the connection requests from remote sources.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

CISA adds Apple iOS and iPadOS and Mitel SIP Phones flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Attackers exploit recently disclosed Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS firewalls bug U.S. custody in exchange for Marc Fogel North Korea-linked APT Emerald Sleet is using a new tactic U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Industrial automation and operational technology (OT) are at a critical intersection where cybersecurity is not a "nice to have" but an essential component of system design and implementation. However, the landscape has changed. It's all good, for the record," one engineer notes.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offers firewall capabilities as a cloud-based service. Traditional firewalls protect the network perimeter, enforcing security standards by regulating incoming and outgoing traffic according to rules and traffic analysis. Why Is There a Need for FWaaS?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

These are not uncommon risks. The devices themselves can’t be secured, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use basic IT techniques to reduce our security risks. However, before we dig into the technologies, let’s first examine why we need them. A hard-wired partner realizes a similar isolation, but uses different technology.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The APT group is using almost exclusively living-off-the-land techniques and hands-on-keyboard activity to evade detection.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Related: Implications of huge Capital One breach CASBs supplied a comprehensive set of tools to monitor and manage the multitude of fresh cyber risks spinning out of the rise in in corporate reliance on cloud services. In doing so, CASBs became the fastest growing security category ever , as declared by Gartner.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

LW: Why are suppliers of legacy firewall, vulnerability management and EDR solutions also now integrating SIEM capabilities? Nayyar: Many security vendors want a piece of the SIEM market, even if their technology isn’t necessarily purpose-built. Related: Reviving obervability.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Technologies that were figments of the imagination a dozen years ago, if they were conceived of at all, quickly become mainstream — think generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) or blockchain. As they do, they create more security vulnerabilities and inherent business, changing the nature of cybersecurity careers.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 25, 2020

Cybersecurity technology is far more advanced today than it was five years ago, or even two years ago. Clearly there is no shortage of innovative security technology in the hands of the good guys; Gartner recently estimated global spending on cybersecurity products and services to top $123 billion this year.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

This surge in TLS abuse has shifted the security community’s focus back to a venerable network security tool, the firewall. Attackers are taking advantage of TLS-protected web and cloud services, for malware delivery and for command-and-control, right under the noses of IT security teams and most security technologies.”.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Don’t miss OWASP’s update to its “Top 10 Risks for LLMs” list. OWASP — the Open Worldwide Application Security Project — released its first “Top 10 Risks for LLMs” last year. Meanwhile, procurement and risk managers can use the list when evaluating software vendors.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The Blacklist Alliance provides technologies and services to marketing firms concerned about lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law that restricts the making of telemarketing calls through the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages. .

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This advisory highlights specific vulnerabilities and offers guidance to mitigate risks for software developers and end-user organizations. These vulnerabilities span a range of technologies, from network security appliances to widely used software applications.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This incident serves as a stark reminder of the critical risks posed by global IT disruptions and supply chain weaknesses. This case underscores the serious risk that social engineering and supply chain attacks pose to open-source projects. The issue serves as a reminder of the potential risks inherent in widely used software.

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