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Top 12 Firewall Best Practices to Optimize Network Security

eSecurity Planet

Firewalls monitor and control incoming and outgoing traffic while also preventing unauthorized access. Overlapping rules may impair firewall efficiency or expose flaws that allow attackers to circumvent regulations. Choose a centralized platform that is interoperable with several firewall suppliers.

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American Water Shuts Down Services After Cybersecurity Breach

eSecurity Planet

To prevent future data breaches , you must adopt a proactive, layered security approach that protects both operational systems and customer-facing platforms. Here are key strategies to prevent cyberattacks like the American Water cyber breach.

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What Is Firewall-as-a-Service? FWaaS Ultimate Guide

eSecurity Planet

Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offers firewall capabilities as a cloud-based service. Traditional firewalls protect the network perimeter, enforcing security standards by regulating incoming and outgoing traffic according to rules and traffic analysis.

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New Year, New Security Risks: Why 2022 Will be The Year of Data Introduction

Security Boulevard

Cybersecurity threats continued to advance in 2021, as the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation for enterprises around the world. In today’s distributed, remote environment, the workforce is the new firewall, raising the stakes for insider threat detection significantly.

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GUEST ESSAY: The case for leveraging hardware to shore up security — via a co-processor

The Last Watchdog

You are no doubt aware of the grim statistics: •The average cost of a data breach rose year-over-year from $3.86 The good news is, artificial intelligence is here and is showing great promise to deliver what the market needs, that is, pre-emptive and proactive threat detection. Cybersecurity has never felt more porous.

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Introducing next-generation firewall from Palo Alto Networks to support 5G-enabled IoT, OT and IT use cases

CyberSecurity Insiders

Next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks with AT&T Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) solutions are designed to help protect enterprises while optimizing security performance for these new use cases. They also help reduce complexity by assisting the customer with ongoing configuration changes to their firewall policies.

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Early detection is the key to tackling security breaches

CyberSecurity Insiders

The 2022 IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report showed that 83% of the groups studied have had more than one data breach. The report also estimates the average cost of data breaches to have risen to $4.35M. This may range from the use of VPNs, firewalls, endpoint protection and other similar technologies.