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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 1: Early Days

Firemon

Jody Brazil CEO at FireMon This is not a primer on firewalls, nor is it meant to represent a comprehensive picture of the history of the firewall. There are plenty of good resources that outline the history of the firewall, for example Wikipedia: [link]. On this front, stateful inspection won.

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Firewall Security: Is a Secure, Firewall-less Network Possible? Perhaps, But Why Would You?

Firemon

Just three years ago, technology headlines were rife with articles stating that the firewall was obsolete. And maybe that prophecy would have come true if we were stuck with the same old firewalls that could only perform simple packet filtering. Learn how FireMon Firewall Security solves your most complex problems.

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CVE-2024-3400: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect Gateway Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

A critical severity command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS has been exploited in limited targeted attacks. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute code on an affected firewall with root privileges. only when both GlobalProtect gateway and device telemetry are enabled.

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO

Integrating a new network after an acquisition can be a sizable headache for any CIO. Traditionally, to integrate its acquisitions, Koch would flatten the acquired company’s core network, says Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions at Koch. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says. Laying the foundation.

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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

CIO

The boulder is made from complex infrastructure, network connections, data stores, and devices. For overall business application and processes, you could look to Software AG’s webMethods or Oracle’s WebLogic Application Server or other approaches from TIBCO, IBM, Open Text and others. The task is Sisyphean. Unfortunately, not.

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Securing and Managing ChatGPT Traffic with Palo Alto Networks App-ID

Palo Alto Networks

However, you later realize that your confidential document was fed into the AI model and could potentially be reviewed by AI trainers. They have warned employees to take care in using generative AI services: do not share information with AI-systems like ChatGPT, and do not share code with the AI chatbot. How would you react?

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Under attack! How we fought off massive DDoS attacks

Xebia

At the time, we were running websites hosted in Azure App Service Environments exposed to the internet using an Azure Application Gateway, protected by a Web Application Firewall. In our Azure tenant, we had an Azure DDoS Network Protection Plan. A fairly complex undertaking to set it up using infrastructure as code (IaC).

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