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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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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. Continue to develop the resource map. Your resource map should be well-evolved by now.

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

Firemon

Download the ebook now. When a firewall has 2,000 lines of code, it can’t be managed on a spreadsheet. Most organizations will attempt to resolve this problem by asking their firewall vendors for administrative tools. With this information, decisions can be made with confidence about prioritization and resource allocation.

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

Ivanti

Once again, borrowing from the NIST glossary, network segmentation is defined as follows: Splitting a network into sub-networks, for example, by creating separate areas on the network which are protected by firewalls configured to reject unnecessary traffic.

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Cloud misconfiguration: vulnerability hiding in plain sight

CircleCI

Cloud misconfigurations occur when resources have not been constructed properly, leaving your systems vulnerable to attack. The misconfiguration of cloud environments and resources can encompass a wide range of security issues. Insufficient access controls on resources. What is cloud misconfiguration?

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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.

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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). But they offer a comprehensive ebook that explains how to overcome these common problems. Pitfall #3 : It’s resource intensive. Microsegmentation will fix this.

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