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Modern Network Security: How Technology and Smart Practices are Reducing Risk

CIO

With the shift to hybrid work, data, applications, intellectual property, and personal information is no longer stashed safely behind a corporate firewall. In this webcast, we’ll explore: The current trending threats facing networks, like authentication vulnerabilities, malware, phishing, and denial of service attacks.

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CVE-2020-12271: Zero-Day SQL Injection Vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

Sophos pushes a hotfix to address a SQL injection vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. On April 22, Sophos published a knowledge base entry on the Sophos Community regarding the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in the Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. Background. Proof of concept.

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Introducing Cloud NGFW for Azure — On-Prem to Azure, Seamlessly Secure

Palo Alto Networks

This fully managed next-generation firewall, available for customers through Microsoft Azure Native ISV Services , is built to better protect cloud-native and migrated applications with Palo Alto Networks AI and ML-powered next-generation firewall technology. Every day this technology blocks nearly 5 billion events, analyzes 3.5

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Call for Papers — Ignite ‘21 Is Now Open

Palo Alto Networks

Malware Analysis & Sandboxing. Firewall as a Service. This is a fantastic opportunity for you, your customers and partners to share their stories with a community of top-tier security professionals and researchers. We’re looking for presentations in the following tracks and areas: Track | Use Cases. Data Center Security.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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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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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

Through partnerships with service providers, Versa connects users to apps in the cloud or data centers with security layered on top — like data loss prevention tools and gateway firewalls.

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