CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2023

Cloud networking solutions provider Aviatrix has launched a distributed cloud firewall offering in a bid to strengthen network security for application traffic on multicloud environments. Aviatrix is the first to deliver a distributed cloud firewall,” said Rod Stuhlmuller, vice president of solutions marketing at Aviatrix.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support for JSON inside SQL statements, allowing potential attackers to easily hide their malicious payloads.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. As a utility that provides network services, dnsmasq is widely used in networking devices such as home business routers but is also present in many other types of embedded and IoT systems including firewalls, VoIP phones and car WiFi systems. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Organizations are looking to realize the promise of cloud computing, including faster time to market, increased responsiveness, and cost reductions. As part of this, many organizations use two or more clouds to meet business needs such as disaster recovery, data backup, application resiliency, and global coverage.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2019

In the past, for example, companies could get away with using a default password, and depend on firewalls and other internal security tools to provide protection. Everything they need is there. The security challenge, however, is now much more pronounced. CASBs offer a security solution that covers the whole cloud and SaaS applications.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2022

Many mid-range enterprise firewalls weren’t designed for the volume of throughput necessary to support a hybrid workforce. However, there are new IT challenges, too, such as the need to provide high-performance remote access for increased video and audio conferencing.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Content delivery network (CDN) and cloud security services provider Akamai Technologies has added a network cloud firewall capability to its cloud-based DDoS platform, Akamai Prolexic.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Build a Human Firewall. Securing your work environment requires you to create what is referred to among security professionals as a human firewall. A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Use company-approved/vetted devices and applications.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Aryaka's Secure Web Gateway and Firewall-as-a-Service adds cloud-based security services to its Zero Trust WAN platform, as it moves toward providing SASE capabilities for its users.

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Firewall 128

CSO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

For the second time in a year the FBI has used search-and-seizure warrants to clean malware from devices owned by private businesses and users without their explicit approval. The agency used this approach to disrupt a botnet believed to be the creation of Russian government hackers.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

Palo Alto Networks has launched a new, fully managed “next-generation” firewall (NGFW) service in partnership with Amazon Web Services designed to remove the complexities of securing AWS cloud deployments. The network firewall vendor says its Cloud NGFW for AWS enables organizations to speed up cloud innovation while remaining secure.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

Corporate networks have become increasingly complex with the adoption of public and private clouds, as well as edge deployments.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

Cloudflare is bolstering its suite of web infrastructure and security offerings with a free WAF (web application firewall) managed ruleset service, a new API management gateway, and — once it closes its recently announced acquisition of Area 1 Security — a set of email tools designed to thwart phishing and malware attacks.

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Firewall Phishing Malware 126

CSO Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

There is a proprietary XDR strategy, which focuses on a single vendor or an “all-in-one” platform providing telemetry from a single vendor’s different products—for example, that vendor’s firewalls, EDR, network detection and response (NDR), and so on (more on why that may not be the best approach later).

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Firewalls are critical, but they are not enough to protect you from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In fact, they are the main target of state exhaustion attacks. You need a stateless DDoS solution like NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense. Learn more here. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

According to data from Cloudflare's web application firewall (WAF) service, the attacks started almost two weeks ago. Software firm Atlassian released emergency patches for its popular Confluence Server and Data Center products after reports came to light late last week that attackers were exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the wild.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

SIEM software (pronounced ‘sim’; the ‘e’ is silent) collects and aggregates log and event data generated throughout the organization’s technology infrastructure, from host systems and applications to network and security devices such as firewalls and antivirus filters.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

Firewalls, anti-virus, endpoint protection, and security awareness all form a foundation of protection against cyber threats. But putting these walls up is not nearly enough these days. Criminals are incredibly creative and resourceful. They can skillfully evade almost all protections.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

If I go to a CSO and say, ‘We can secure your APIs,’ he’ll say, ‘Great, can you also find them for me?’ ” observed Dwivedi, Data Theorem’s founder. Because companies can’t protect APIs with traditional means, like firewalls, they must find other ways to secure them. And that’s just one phone. Velocity without security.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

At first, most of the cyber insurance questions involved basic computer security and merely checked to see if we had firewalls and antivirus and not much else. I recently had to renew the cyber insurance policy for the office and it was interesting to see the evolution of questions asked over the years.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

This is perhaps no surprise: The digital shift caused by the COVID-19 pandemic saw nearly every business in the world become completely reliant on their VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers—obvious weak spots, and prime targets for attackers. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

For these organizations, threat intelligence programs were nothing more than blocking indicators of compromise (IoCs) with firewalls, endpoint security software, email gateways, or web proxies. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The most common security gaps identified were dormant APIs—APIs that have been ostensibly replaced but remain in operation—authorization vulnerabilities, and web application firewalls. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

In the meantime, dedicated security teams were tasked with procuring, deploying, and managing firewalls. Prior to this, enterprise networking teams were responsible for setting up connectivity to major company locations, while connections to branches and remote offices fell to the enterprise WAN manager.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

These include routers, mobile phones, firewalls, smart TVs, streaming boxes, VoIP boxes, cameras and camera doorbells, network attached storage, some brands of kitchen and laundry appliances, and many other connected devices we use daily for work or for convenience. Our worlds are increasingly interconnected and dependent on computing.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In reality, however, many of the DDoS attacks waged against enterprises target components that have long been a part of the network—things such as virtual private network (VPN) devices, firewalls, load balancers and other edge devices. Such devices contain state information used to route and manage traffic.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sevco’s CSO Brian Contos states, “6% of all IT assets have reached EOL, and known but unpatched vulnerabilities are a favorite target for attackers.” The problem: CVE-2024-40766 is a serious access control vulnerability that affects SonicWall Firewall Gen 5, Gen 6, and Gen 7 devices (CVSS v3 score: 9.3). 13o or 6.5.4.15-116n

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Firmware Backups Firewall Risk 110

CSO Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

In a traditional network, networking equipment and firewalls segment and isolate physical servers and other devices. Whether a company utilizes a private, hybrid or public cloud infrastructure or offers cloud services to others, it is critical that each cloud instance and service be isolated to help minimize the risk of data compromise.

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Firewall Data breaches Technology Risk 109

CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Traditional networks have been set up in the same fashion: a traditional Active Directory domain, a variety of domain controllers, workstations under the control of that domain, and all tucked behind a firewall. The pandemic hit and our workstations are now anywhere and everywhere.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

As organizations continue to wrestle with how to manage a hybrid workforce, security outside the corporate firewall continues to play a huge role in day-to-day IT operations.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 28, 2022

Rather than, say, relying solely on a firewall to keep hackers out of a corporate network, an organization would also deploy endpoint security software and intrusion detection systems (IDS) to spot any attacker who manages to slip past that firewall.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

Firewalls were invented because people outside the network were inherently less trustworthy than those inside the network, especially when it came to things like accessing data and resources. Trust has always been a critical consideration for security.

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Firewall 94

CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

They remind me of the old firewall reports (“Look at how many port scans we stopped!”), which I’ll admit I had a special loathing for because security teams would block their web teams from using a content delivery network (CDN) simply because they would lose this report. At best, they are a measurement of activity , not of effectiveness.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

Many Ways to 'Secure' Cloud Workloads There are also many ways to monitor and protect cloud workloads, including agent-based third-party solutions, cloud provider monitoring and logging services, cloud perimeter firewalls, and WAFs.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Without the predictable and logical network boundaries to guide security practices, security teams have had to shift their posture away from perimeter protections like firewalls, and toward endpoint detection and response (EDR).

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Firewall and security software vendor Palo Alto Network’s annual Ignite conference kicked off Tuesday, highlighted by several product announcements, which were unveiled alongside the company’s latest threat report.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

Even the most advanced “next generation” application layer firewalls filtering malicious traffic at the network perimeter have only revealed equal if not greater threats within. To prevent security breaches and data loss, organizations have directed a lot of time, effort, and capital spend toward security initiatives.

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