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Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Web application firewalls or WAFs are essential components to the security of organization networks and service-oriented architecture. A web application firewall is a specialized firewall designed to filter and control HTTP traffic in internet traffic between web clients and application servers. Get an in-depth look at SonicWall NS a.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

As networks evolved and organizations adopted internet communications for critical business processes, these cryptographic systems became essential for protecting data. Phishing and social engineering are common ways threat actors can obtain a symmetric key, but cryptanalysis and brute force attempts can also break symmetric key ciphers.

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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

eSecurity Planet

Phishing and social engineering are common ways threat actors can obtain a symmetric key, but cryptanalysis and brute force attempts can also break symmetric key ciphers. By 2001, the NIST dubbed it the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and officially replaced the use of DES.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

In its software-based architecture, DbProtect is ready for virtualization and provides non-disruptive agentless scan engines, lightweight sensors, and pre-configured policies to optimize security out of the box. For database security, Trustwave’s solution is the scalable, enterprise-capable DbProtect.

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Cyber Security Roundup for March 2021

Security Boulevard

The sudo vulnerability aka CVE-2001-3156 , seemed to go under the radar after it was announced and patches were released on 26th January 2021. From IoT devices to internet-based services, the security of countless devices and web-based services' are dependant upon a secure Linux account privilege model.