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Generative AI & data: Potential in cybersecurity if the risks can be curtailed

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This time they’re making a $13 billion bet by partnering with OpenAI and bringing to market new products like Security Copilot to make sense of the threat landscape using the recently launched text-generating GPT-4 (more on that below). Now, Microsoft is putting a stake in the ground with its generative AI Security Copilot tool.

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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 3: Performance Takes Center Stage

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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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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 1: Early Days

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Jody Brazil CEO at FireMon This is not a primer on firewalls, nor is it meant to represent a comprehensive picture of the history of the firewall. There are plenty of good resources that outline the history of the firewall, for example Wikipedia: [link]. Finally, security. On this front, stateful inspection won.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

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

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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. Employees are using it to develop software, write code, create content, and prepare sales and marketing plans.

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4 ways CISOs can manage AI use in the enterprise

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Over the summer, I wrote a column about how CIOs are worried about the informal rise of generative AI in the enterprise. Since then, many CIOs I’ve spoken with have grappled with enterprise data security and privacy issues around AI usage in their companies. That column may have been the understatement of the year.

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

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According to Gartner, 99% of firewall and cloud security failures can be attributed to errors in configuration. According to Gartner, 99% of firewall and cloud security failures can be attributed to errors in configuration.