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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

To achieve this, businesses are turning to a zero-trust architecture, specifically the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. This is the second installment in our two-part blog series highlighting the ways in which Zscaler helps organizations overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures to deliver superior economic value.

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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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5 strategies for boosting endpoint management

CIO

Cloud architectures and remote workforces have effectively dissolved the network perimeter, the traditional line of defense for IT security. Then IT assets were nearly all on-premises and protected by a firewall. Lacking that decisive boundary, the work of security teams has changed. Those days are over.

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Myth #1: Network Security Compliance Is Not All About Rules and Access Control

Firemon

Download the ebook now. When a firewall has 2,000 lines of code, it can’t be managed on a spreadsheet. Most organizations will attempt to resolve this problem by asking their firewall vendors for administrative tools. Rebuilding firewalls after a disaster is critical, yet often overlooked. The Visibility Problem.

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Cloud misconfiguration: vulnerability hiding in plain sight

CircleCI

Quickly creating resources, adding components or new containers, and changing configurations within a scalable architecture — these can all create errors. This scanning should include everything from static and dynamic application security testing to scanning networks and firewalls to ensure that ports and routes remain locked down.

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The 8 Best Practices for Reducing Your Organization’s Attack Surface

Ivanti

Once again, borrowing from the NIST glossary, network segmentation is defined as follows: Splitting a network into sub-networks, for example, by creating separate areas on the network which are protected by firewalls configured to reject unnecessary traffic. As with all things cybersecurity, there’s no time for standing still.

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Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network

CTOvision

The problem is that threat actors are able to get through the castle gates (firewalls) and once in, are able to evade the castle guards (IPS). The argument is that today with the expansion of n-tier distributed systems and massively parallel architectures, east-west traffic has increased exponentially. Microsegmentation will fix this.

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