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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 4: The Next Generation

Firemon

The Next-Generation Firewall Market Penetration of the Next-Gen Firewall The Platform The Future of the Firewall Book a Demo Jody Brazil CEO at FireMon As hardware and software performance improved, the difference in firewall performance between the different vendors became much smaller.

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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 3: Performance Takes Center Stage

Firemon

The Rise of the ASIC The Appliance Becomes the Standard Security Goes Mainstream Book a Demo Jody Brazil CEO at FireMon By the early 2000s, proxies had lost, and stateful inspection dominated the market. As internet speeds increased and firewall adoption inside the enterprise increased, performance drove purchasing decisions.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO

That, in turn, reduces IT cost, the time it takes staff to learn the environment, and the time to market. All other needs, for example, authentication, encryption, log management, system configuration, would be treated the same—by using the architectural patterns available.

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Top 5 Network Security Challenges in 2020 and Beyond

Firemon

According to Gartner, between now and 2023, 99% of firewall breaches will be caused by misconfigurations rather than firewall flaws. Firewalls are hard to manage because networks are complicated and getting more complicated by the month. Many organizations focus their firewall management activities on permitting access.

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United Airlines CISO Deneen DeFiore on elevating cyber’s value to the business

CIO

How do you instill that kind of marketing mindset in your leaders and develop these communication muscles in your people? Of course, we want all the external endpoints behind our web application firewall, that coverage metric, but then how many threats are we actually blocking? That creates value from a business outcome standpoint.

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Tips to Keep Track of Code and Infrastructure Security Risks

Apiumhub

A lot of the software on the market today has been written with the priority of being in production as soon as possible and without much consideration for the security aspect. Poor authentication and session management can lead to unauthorized access to different user roles in a system.

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Why Most Zero Trust Network Access Solutions Are Too Trusting

Palo Alto Networks

Gartner’s recently released Market Guide for ZTNA , which lists Palo Alto Networks as a representative vendor, highlights the benefits of ZTNA over standalone virtual private networks (VPNs) for providing secure remote access. A user is provided with secure access to an authentication system, either through an agent or agentless approach.

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