eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. Also read : Is the Answer to Vulnerabilities Patch Management as a Service?

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

You have systems of internal network accessible from the internet, so potentially, you’ve got internet access and firewall policy issues. If it’s an accident, then geez, you’re not managing your environment and you don’t have effective security architecture to prevent exposure of assets.

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IoT Internet Internet CISO 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As organizations strive for excellence in digital transformation and face the realities of an accelerated push to remote work, they’ve been called to rethink their networking and cybersecurity architecture. SASE helps future-proof cybersecurity architecture by decoupling security control from the data center.

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Anton on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2024

If you look at LinkedIn, many consultants present themselves as trusted advisors to CISOs or their teams. What are some ideas for doing architecture in cases of X and Y constraints? Summary — The Good: Ideation and Brainstorming: LLMs excel at generating ideas for security architectures, controls, and approaches.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 15, 2023

When CISOs evaluate their IT infrastructure, they assign scoring priorities to different systems. However, the reliance of systems on each other has increased significantly, with APIs, microservice architecture, and other interdependencies. However, there are limitations to this strategy.

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DDOS Firewall Risk CISO 99

Cisco Security

MAY 20, 2021

According to Mick Jenkins, CISO at Brunel University London , “The streamlined platform approach has been quite easy for our security analysts to work with, and we’ve already seen evidence of shortened threat detection times.”. Changing threat landscapes and network architectures have been especially prominent in 2020 and 2021.

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Firewall Technology CISO Architecture 102

Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations. CyberArk reduces VPN risk with MFA enforcement on any VPN client that supports RADIUS; including Cisco Secure Firewall. HashiCorp (Terraform) provides infrastructure automation and now supports Secure Firewall ASA.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Keep in mind that the typical CISO manages about 75 security tools and applications. SASE is a network architecture that combines SD-WAN with cloud-native security functions such as secure web gateways , cloud access security brokers , firewalls and zero-trust network access , while supporting the dynamic secure access needs of organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs. Christine Bejerasco, CISO of WithSecure , expands that “in the physical dimension, poisoning the well could impact communities in the area.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

A firewall or a VPN Gateway, for example, may provide information, which could be used to identify potential attack vectors. The necessarily rapid pace of change left IT departments with precious little time to fully consider new security architectures and the shifting threat landscape, now dominated by ransomware and DDoS.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

SAP National Security Services (NS2) CISO Ted Wagner told eSecurityPlanet that network slicing “adds complexity, which may lend itself to insecure implementation. To be successful, an attacker must gain access to the 5G Service Based Architecture. 5G Systems Architecture. Also Read: How to Implement Microsegmentation.

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Risk Cybersecurity IoT Wireless 128

Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2022

I especially enjoyed my conversation with Ryan Melle, SVP and CISO at Berkshire Bank. Because traditional solutions, such as web application firewalls (WAFs) and API gateways, lack the ability to correlate API activity over time, they can’t adequately protect this expanding attack surface.

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Banking Digital transformation Architecture Big data 52

SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2023

According to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence announcement , Volt Typhoon gains initial access to targeted organizations through internet-facing security devices, specifically Fortinet FortiGuard firewalls. Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist and Advisory CISO at Delinea: "The recent Volt Typhoon warning from Microsoft is alarming.

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Firewall Cyber threats Telecommunications Internet 81

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I think it requires taking a step back and assessing what you can do with less," said Chris Roberts, CISO and Senior Director at Boom Supersonic. Andrew Smeaton, CISO at Afiniti, says reassessment of cybersecurity programs and plans is necessary. Does this tool integrate with our existing architecture (e.g., SIEM, SOAR)?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Back then, it was about ingesting data and kicking off alerts from all the cybersecurity products that were being used –– mostly host- and network-based intrusion detection devices (ISS et al), network tools, and firewalls (Check Point, Cisco, et al). Endpoint and anti-virus software would come a little later.

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Marketing Unstructured Data Cyber Risk Technology 116

NopSec

AUGUST 22, 2013

Data Loss Prevention control has recently jumped on most organizations CISOs’ radarscreens because of the whistle-blowing revelations on NSA by Mr. Snowden. Networks need to be appropriately segmented and separated with VLANs and firewalls to protect segments that contain sensitive information.

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Engineering Penetration Testing Wireless Firewall 40

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But in the wake of the attack, manychief information security officers (CISOs) realized that PDNS was the answer to early detection and resiliency against similar attacks simply because log4j was surprisingly easy to detect at a DNS level. Consider: The log4j attack was difficult to detect and stop based on traditional log-file analysis.

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DNS Architecture Marketing Cyber threats 69

Security Boulevard

JUNE 29, 2024

Before adversarial AI attacks, most SecOps teams used basic behavior-based analytics, human intervention, and a combination of static and dynamic signature updates across their firewalls, IPS, and antivirus solutions. AI tools empower hackers to alter their attack campaigns faster, making their victims’ ability to react even more challenging.

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Artificial Intelligence Engineering Cyber Insurance Phishing 72

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2024

If you look at LinkedIn, many consultants present themselves as trusted advisors to CISOs or their teams. What are some ideas for doing architecture in cases of X and Y constraints? Summary — The Good: Ideation and Brainstorming: LLMs excel at generating ideas for security architectures, controls, and approaches.

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Architecture Risk Cybersecurity CISO 69

SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Mike Hamilton, president and chief information security officer at CI Security and former CISO of Seattle, told SC Media that the disparity in dates might simply be a matter of semantics. Our latest release of FTA has addressed all known vulnerabilities at this time,” said Frank Balonis, Accellion’s CISO, in a statement.

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Government Media CISO Encryption 96

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture. Deny-lists (aka: blacklist) : Blocks specific websites or IP addresses by adding them to a list for firewalls to ignore; very difficult to manage at scale. 20% of employee time is spent on company networks.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 14, 2024

Information Technology Systems: Thorough understanding of IT systems, network architecture, and data management. Knowledge of Security Protocols: Familiarity with encryption, firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and other security technologies. Problem-Solving Abilities: Ability to think critically and solve complex security issues.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

Similarly, the IT Department needs to evaluate the current environment, the current IT architecture, and the nature of the vulnerability to determine the likelihood of exploitation, which should also be evaluated on a scale from 1 (low likelihood) to 10 (high likelihood). Broader is always better to control risks, but can be more costly.]

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Zero Trust Key Concepts Zero trust, as a set of design ideas and principles for a security architecture allows for numerous interpretations about how to approach an efficient and safe implementation. When speaking to CISOs about zero trust one of the most common responses is to ask where they should start.

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Architecture Authentication CISO Risk 52

SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

We had some legacy architecture that that was failing. Greg McCarthy, CISO of Boston. Indeed, “a strong, accurate, timely digital identity is going to be the foundation of robust security architectures going forward,” said Marc Rogers, executive director of cybersecurity at Okta.

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Passwords Architecture Password Management Government 64

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 21, 2021

One of the biggest challenges is likely to be, how you actually make the transition to a Zero Trust model whilst still having to maintain investment from your previous IT security tools and architectures, which were likely built around more perimeter-based models. Gabriel Whalen, Manager Information Security Solutions, CDW.

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Risk Technology Mobile Digital transformation 77

ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. This doesn’t allow the IT administrator, the end-user, or the CISO to independently verify the security, safety, and resiliency of the software they buy and use. This is an easy band-aid.

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Technology Software Marketing CISO 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. This doesn’t allow the IT administrator, the end-user, or the CISO to independently verify the security, safety, and resiliency of the software they buy and use. This is an easy band-aid.

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Technology Software Marketing CISO 40

ForAllSecure

APRIL 3, 2019

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. This doesn’t allow the IT administrator, the end-user, or the CISO to independently verify the security, safety, and resiliency of the software they buy and use. This is an easy band-aid.

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Technology Software Marketing CISO 40

eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

Key differentiators: Cloud-native architecture for use with cloud systems. Sophos also provides actionable steps for addressing configuration and architecture vulnerabilities to improve overall security posture. 58% of CISOs report concern that this skills gap will continue to increase. Focus on collaboration.

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The Falcon's View

JANUARY 3, 2019

For example, we should not see large infosec/CISO organizations any more, but instead should see functional technical security resources, such as firewall engineers and appsec engineers, directly embedded into their closest related teams (e.g., question, with an emphasis on outsourcing where possible.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Knowledge of cloud systems architecture and how it interacts with various devices is invaluable. They install technologies like firewalls and intrusion detection, keep software up to date, enforce security standards, and choose protocols and best practices. Security Engineer Security engineers build secure systems.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2022

Pity the poor CISO at any enterprise you care to name. As their organizations migrate deeper into an intensively interconnected digital ecosystem, CISOs must deal with cyber attacks raining down on all fronts. And the usual collection of security tools – firewall, endpoint detection, intrusion detection, SIEM, etc.

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Cyber Risk Risk CISO Cloud Migration 263

eSecurity Planet

JULY 22, 2021

It also feeds into the larger argument for adopting a zero-trust architecture , a methodology that essentially assumes that no user or devices trying to connect to the network can be trusted until they’re authenticated and verified. There also is the zero-trust architecture, according to the ThreatLabz report.

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IoT Risk Architecture Manufacturing 144

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

The fall of VPNs and firewalls The cyberthreats and trends of 2023 send a clear message to organizations: they must evolve their security strategies to the times and embrace a zero trust architecture. As such, it is imperative to prioritize these security measures in 2024.

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