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

Firemon

They have internal and external users, APIs, and IoT devices that all need access to their networks. There is a disconnect between network security operations, IT management, compliance professionals, and line-of-business managers, and this gap not only heightens the security risk, it puts the brakes on speed to market.

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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). Since 2000, secure networks have been built by segmenting traffic at the switch port level from server to server, radically limiting east-west traffic. 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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Healthcare Orgs Move to the Cloud – Are They Secure?

Palo Alto Networks

That said, healthcare organizations with significant restraints on resources and lacking dedicated security expertise on staff have a better chance at improving security in the cloud than managing their own on-premises systems. Automation is also especially beneficial for any enterprise with tight limits on resources. No excuses.