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

Firemon

As internet speeds increased and firewall adoption inside the enterprise increased, performance drove purchasing decisions. Enter Netscreen, the firewall appliance, and the Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Netscreenintroduced the purpose-built firewall “appliance.” Cisco was selling the PIX in the 90s.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO

CCA prerequisites Large organizations usually govern their IT portfolio via global architectural patterns, which can be thought of as building blocks, and include IT security patterns. As a result, the greater the number of redundant patterns (available solutions that provide the same result) used by an organization, the larger the CCA.

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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. CVE Description CVSSv3 Severity CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-bound Write Vulnerability in sslvpnd 9.6 FortiOS 6.2.0

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Security-Rich: How the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform Meets NSA/CISA Kubernetes Security Hardening Guidelines

d2iq

Security Is Mission-Critical The level of security an organization maintains can have a dramatic impact on the bottom line. These costs vary according to the type and size of an organization. Organizations that lag in modernizing the security of their IT environments will run higher risks and stand to suffer greater losses.

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So… What is Ansible?

Perficient

IT organizations are responsible for an ever-increasing number of applications, infrastructure providers, operating system versions, network devices, platforms, monitoring, ticket systems, and more. The challenges that go along with managing it can range anywhere from time-consuming to downright Sisyphean.

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CVE-2021-1609: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Cisco Small Business VPN Routers

Tenable

While both flaws exist due to improper validation of HTTP requests and can be exploited by sending specially crafted HTTP requests, CVE-2021-1610 can only be exploited by an authenticated attacker with root privileges. Organizations are strongly encouraged to patch these routers as soon as possible. Proof of concept.

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Securing IoMT Devices: Best Practices for Hospitals to Prevent Cyberattacks

Ivanti

This article will discuss examples of cyberattacks on hospitals, best practices for securing connected medical devices, the role of advanced automation in preventing IoMT security breaches and how data analytics can help organizations monitor security issues. Data analytics is another key tool for securing connected medical devices.