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Australia Stresses Cybersecurity Precautions in Wake of Ukraine Conflict

Duo's Security Blog

Verify User Identities Multi-factor authentication should be in place to verify users’ identities before granting them access to internet-facing services, privilege-based use of systems, and important data repositories and applications that may contain personal information. Resources Webinar: Essential Eight - How Does Your Organization Rate?

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

SC Magazine

Kristin Sanders, chief information security officer for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, revealed last week how New Mexico’s largest water and wastewater utility has been addressing this challenge by leveraging a series of software solutions, sensors and internet-of-things tech.

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The Fastest Route to SASE

McAfee

Costly Infrastructure – MPLS connections, VPN concentrators, and huge centralized network security infrastructure represent major investments with significant operational expense. The fact that multiple security solutions typically operate in distinct siloes compounds management effort and costs. Multi-Vector Data Protection.

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

CyberSecurity Insiders

NGFWs boast critical security features such as intrusion prevention, VPN, anti-virus, and encrypted web traffic inspection. With so many apps and services required for employees to do their jobs, this is crucial for allowing users to download applications from the internet.

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Ransomware Prevention, Detection, and Simulation

NetSpi Executives

An attacker can easily scan the internet for websites that haven’t patched a vulnerability for which the attacker has an exploit. In addition to encrypting data and holding it hostage, ransomware attackers also upload valuable data to other systems on the internet. Inventory all management interfaces of internet-facing assets—e.g.,

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Transform your Architecture for the Cloud with MVISION UCE and SD-WAN

McAfee

Remote users and branch offices were logically connected to this central network via technologies like VPN, MPLS, and leased lines, so the secure network perimeter could be maintained. Bandwidth suffers from the slow MPLS link back to the corporate office, as well as through the congested company internet connection.

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What’s New in the Federal Zero Trust Strategy?

Duo's Security Blog

The requirements suggest taking an iterative approach: “Agencies must identify at least one internal-facing FISMA Moderate application and make it fully operational and accessible over the public internet” and “without relying on a virtual private network (VPN) or other network tunnel.”