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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

A recent study shows that 98% of IT leaders 1 have adopted a public cloud infrastructure. However, it has also introduced new security challenges, specifically related to cloud infrastructure and connectivity between workloads as organizations have limited control over those connectivity and communications. 8 Complexity.

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Why Proxy-Based Firewalls Are Not Enough

Palo Alto Networks

Proxy-based firewalls or web proxies have been considered an essential security component for some time now, but the question remains: Can proxies really help keep users safe? The first proxy-based firewalls achieved the basic task of controlling which websites users could access on the Internet. Implementation. Effectiveness.

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How to Use a Firewall for Network Traffic Analysis and Behavioral Detection

Palo Alto Networks

On March 17, we’ll host a webinar called “ Leverage Your Firewall to Expose Attackers Hiding in Your Network ” to share tips on how you can use your firewall for network traffic analysis. Organizations can take this to the next level by connecting their firewalls to other security sensors throughout their organization.

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Introducing Cloud NGFW for Azure — On-Prem to Azure, Seamlessly Secure

Palo Alto Networks

This fully managed next-generation firewall, available for customers through Microsoft Azure Native ISV Services , is built to better protect cloud-native and migrated applications with Palo Alto Networks AI and ML-powered next-generation firewall technology. Every day this technology blocks nearly 5 billion events, analyzes 3.5

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CVE-2024-21762: Critical Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write SSL VPN Vulnerability

Tenable

critical infrastructure through exploitation of known vulnerabilities Background On February 8, Fortinet published an advisory (FG-IR-24-015) to address a critical flaw in FortiOS, its network operating system. and international agencies. CISA, NSA and FBI warns of pre-positioning by Volt Typhoon in U.S.

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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed patch management and using vulnerability scanning to see what vulnerabilities are in your infrastructure, and then we dove into the importance of data backups , as well as passwords and policies such as using MFA and proactively identifying compromised passwords to help secure your infrastructure.

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We're Honored to Be Recognized Again! A Leader 11 Straight Times

Palo Alto Networks

On December 22, 2022, Gartner named Palo Alto Networks a Leader for the eleventh consecutive time in its Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls for 2022. of savings by removing redundant infrastructure, 30% faster security optimization, and 50% reduction in management workload.