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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. We predict that the convergence of networking and security will continue to expand to more areas. And NGFWs aren’t done evolving.

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Healthcare cybersecurity: Our hospital’s path to better cyber resilience

CIO

As leaders in healthcare and cybersecurity, we must be extra vigilant in understanding our vulnerabilities and providing our organizations with the best defense possible, even as we face ongoing budget constraints and a challenging cybersecurity talent shortage. Cyberattacks are inevitable, but successful attacks don’t have to be.

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The Future of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity

CIO

And while ML has frequently been used to make sense of big data—to improve business performance and processes and help make predictions—it has also proven priceless in other applications, including cybersecurity. Why Machine Learning Has Become Vital for Cybersecurity. What Makes Machine Learning Different in Cybersecurity.

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

CIO

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 1: Early Days

Firemon

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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Unbiased third-party testing is critical for network security

CIO

Today, CIO and CISO teams are tasked with multiple business-critical initiatives like securing and connecting work-from-anywhere employees, moving applications to the edge or the cloud, and securing operational technology (OT) and IT environments.

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