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Why are cybersecurity asset management startups so hot right now?

TechCrunch

In the world of cybersecurity, you can’t secure something if you don’t know it’s there. Enter cybersecurity asset management, an admittedly unsexy fragment of the booming industry that investors have shown an ever-increasing appetite for over the past 18 months. Assets, assets everywhere. Shawn Cherian. ”

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Firewalla launches its Purple gigabit home firewall

TechCrunch

Over the course of the last few years, Firewalla ‘s combined firewall and router devices have made a name for themselves as the go-to hardware security tools for many enthusiasts and small businesses. Then, our engineers just go ‘I want to play with this.’ Image Credits: Firewalla.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO

Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going.

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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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Data — The Lifeblood of Security and Detection Engineering

Palo Alto Networks

In episode 5 of “ This Is How We Do It, ” Peter Havens from Cortex product marketing and Isaac Krzywanowski, staff security engineer at Palo Alto Networks, discuss data pipelining, operational assurance and the importance of monitoring the health of data sources. Watch their full interview on our Cortex YouTube channel.

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How to Become a Cyber Security Specialist in 2023?

The Crazy Programmer

Are you planning to start a career in the field of cyber security ? An expert in cyber security serves the same purpose that a guard dog does in the physical world. What May Encompass the Field of Cyber Security? How to Become a Cyber Security Specialist? If so, this article is what you need to read!

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CIOs are worried about the informal rise of generative AI in the enterprise

CIO

In my previous column in May, when I wrote about generative AI uses and the cybersecurity risks they could pose , CISOs noted that their organizations hadn’t deployed many (if any) generative AI-based solutions at scale. Not all companies have security systems that can detect, block, or remediate this type of behavior.