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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

Today, security, networking, and IT teams are faced with reduced headcount, shrinking budgets, and the very real need to do more with less. Yesterday’s hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security models were adequate when users, applications, and data all resided onsite in the corporate office or data center.

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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. Now to guard against data breaches, ransomware, and other types of cyber threats, protecting network endpoints is more important than ever. Treat endpoints as the new network edge.

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

Firemon

Security and compliance are based on establishing policies for access control across the network and validating those policies on an ongoing basis by analyzing network traffic, remediating vulnerabilities, and reviewing policies for business needs. Auditors want to see documents that map essential network controls to the requirements.

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

Ivanti

Cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) solutions enable such organizations to identify all their assets — including those that are unauthorized and unmanaged — so they can be secured, managed or even removed from the enterprise network. 4: Implement network segmentation and microsegmentation.

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Cloud misconfiguration: vulnerability hiding in plain sight

CircleCI

And unlike on-premises networks, these cloud environments lack secure outer perimeters and specific off times. Cloud networks are always on and always available. So, any vulnerabilities in these networks, like cloud misconfigurations, can leave your organization open to security threats. Permissive network access.

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