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CRN 2020 Hottest Cybersecurity Products Include CN-Series Firewall

Palo Alto Networks

We’re proud to announce that CRN lists the CN-Series container firewall one of the hottest cybersecurity products of 2020. CN-Series is the industry’s first containerized Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) designed specifically for Kubernetes environments and addresses growing container usage.

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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

Increasing operational efficiency The shift to cloud and hybrid work has left organizations that utilize a perimeter-based security model that leverages firewalls and VPNs with a number of significant costs and challenges related to complexity and operational inefficiency. That means adding more appliances.

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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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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal

CIO

It also presented many organizations with challenges including wasteful and redundant IT spending, unexpected losses due to security breaches, and outages because of aging infrastructure. These include Infrastructure-as-Service, Desktop-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, Security-as-a-Service, and Backup-as-a-Service.

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Myth #2: Compliance Is Only Urgent When There’s an Audit

Firemon

While they were smarting from the pain of the last audit, their infrastructure was growing more complex and dynamic. Regulations continued to change, but firewall policies may or may not have been updated. Download the ebook now. Security Policy Compliance for Every Use Case, Infrastructure, and Standard.

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MYTH #3: It’s Better To Block Than To Permit Access

Firemon

Modern-era firewalls are designed around a positive security model, which means they deny all access that is not administratively permitted. Every rule added to the firewall is a decision to permit more access – and to accept more risk. Download the ebook now. So access control is not only a technological puzzle.

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How to Choose an OT Cybersecurity Solution Vendor

Tenable

As cyberattacks in critical infrastructure, such as those on the Colonial Pipeline, make headlines, cybersecurity experts must address the risk that this esoteric environment poses to their company. Network-based detection should include the following capabilities: Policies for “allow/disallow”, similar to a firewall. is a leader. .