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FireMon Policy Analyzer Delivers Powerful, Free Solution to Combat Firewall Misconfigurations

Firemon

According to Gartner, 99% of firewall and cloud security failures can be attributed to errors in configuration. Misconfigurations are well-documented as a source of the expanding cybersecurity gap, especially when it comes to an organization’s firewalls.

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Firewall Security: Is a Secure, Firewall-less Network Possible? Perhaps, But Why Would You?

Firemon

Just three years ago, technology headlines were rife with articles stating that the firewall was obsolete. And maybe that prophecy would have come true if we were stuck with the same old firewalls that could only perform simple packet filtering. Learn how FireMon Firewall Security solves your most complex problems.

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Radically simplify and expand Zero Trust to cloud workload

CIO

They often use a combination of: Cloud native security solutions offered by cloud service providers Multiple security tools (firewall, VPN, TLS/SSL inspection, DLP, etc.) This helps customers reduce the operational complexity associated with managing security policies based on IP Addresses, FQDNs, and CIDR blocks.

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The Top Cloud Security Threat Comes from Within

CIO

Furthermore, when data and workloads reside on-premises, a firewall provides an extra layer of protection. So even when a setting gets misconfigured, there’s a lower chance of exposure outside the firewall. But if something gets misconfigured in the cloud, the risk is much higher.

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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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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO

An SD-WAN overlays traditional or hybrid WAN infrastructures and locates the software or hardware nodes at each location and in the cloud. Then, based on policies defined by the operator, SD-WAN steers the traffic along the best path to ensure data moves along the fastest route.

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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.