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Just Released and Ready for Download — Software Firewalls for Dummies

Palo Alto Networks

If you want to protect applications and workloads throughout today’s complex and interrelated environments, you need software firewalls. You can better understand the extensive need and numerous use cases for virtual firewalls, container firewalls and managed cloud firewalls with our essential guide, “ Software Firewalls for Dummies.”

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Firewall in Computer Network

The Crazy Programmer

Nowadays, the firewall is used mainly in organizations and also by individuals. But do you know what type of advantages users get after installing a firewall on their computer? Are there any disadvantages of using a firewall on computer devices? What is Firewall in Computer Network?

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Radically simplify and expand Zero Trust to cloud workload

CIO

The public cloud imperative For many organizations, regardless of size or industry, the public cloud has become an essential resource for critical operations. 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.)

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Azure Storage Account Networking: When to Use Firewalls and Service Endpoints

Linux Academy

Recently, when building content for one of my upcoming courses, Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 , I found the Microsoft documentation wasn’t immediately clear on the exclusivity of Storage Account Firewalls, and Service Endpoints. Do I need to use Service Endpoints and the Storage Firewall together?

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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

CIO

Tools to Rein In Complexity Thankfully, In the IT and security worlds we’re being offered tools to simplify and integrate virtually every part of our IT ecosystems. There are options that help companies manage disparate tasks, projects, and resources. There’s the complexity of security in the organization. Password strategies.

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Intelligent Traffic Offload Uses SmartNIC/DPU for Hyperscale Security

Palo Alto Networks

This is a fundamental shift in how security is done, moving from traditional firewalling at the perimeter, closer to distributed apps that live at the edge. This technology dramatically improves virtual firewall performance by up to 5x by offloading traffic that does not benefit from firewall inspection to SmartNICs and DPUs.

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Visualize and prioritize risks with Lacework Explorer

Lacework

The graph shows resources, associated relationships, and how threats can interact among them. With the feature, security professionals gain insight into how connected resources could be affected in an attack; how wide a potential blast radius could be; how exposed secrets and/or internet exposure could enable lateral movement; and more.

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