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Next-Generation Firewalls: A comprehensive guide for network security modernization

CyberSecurity Insiders

The terms computer security, information security and cybersecurity were practically non-existent in the 1980s, but believe it or not, firewalls have existed in some form since that time. Over the years, the traditional firewall has transformed to meet the demands of the modern workplace and adapt to an evolving threat landscape.

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Water utility CISO offers tips to stay secure as IT and OT converge

SC Magazine

From an economics point of view, solutions that can be simultaneously implemented across both IT and OT environments – such as secure-access platforms with two-factor or multi-factor authentication – is a good place for a utility to start, she added, speaking in an online webinar organized by Cisco Systems.

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CSTA Turns 400 – Proof That Technology Integrations Is Exactly What You Are Looking For

Cisco Security

Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations. CyberArk reduces VPN risk with MFA enforcement on any VPN client that supports RADIUS; including Cisco Secure Firewall. HashiCorp (Terraform) provides infrastructure automation and now supports Secure Firewall ASA.

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Top Trending CVEs of April 2024

NopSec

Palo Alto PanOS RCE CVE-2024-3400 It feels like the first quarter of 2024 has been defined by a string of SSL VPN command execution vulnerabilities and Palo Alto has jumped on the wagon. Researchers at Veloxity observed that clients were reporting breach incidents at their firewall end-points.

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Australia Stresses Cybersecurity Precautions in Wake of Ukraine Conflict

Duo's Security Blog

Firewall status, drive encryption status, password status and whether an antivirus or anti-malware agent is running can all contribute to improved security resilience. Adding multi-factor authentication to your virtual private network (VPN) can increase protection against credential theft.

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Ransomware Prevention, Detection, and Simulation

NetSpi Executives

In general, the fewer assets you have exposed to the internet the better, so if it doesn’t need to be out there, remove it, and bring it inside your virtual private network (VPN). WEBINAR: How to Build and Validate Ransomware Attack Detections Learn tips to make your organization more resilient to ransomware attacks.

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What to Expect from the Next Generation of Secure Web Gateways

McAfee

URL filtering then transitioned to proxy servers sitting behind corporate firewalls. However, the traditional SWG could only play this role if it was the chokepoint for all internet traffic, sitting at the edge of every corporate network perimeter and having remote users “hairpin” back through that network via VPN or MPLS links.