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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

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Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization.

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What Is Stateful Inspection in Network Security? Ultimate Guide

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The state and context information saved by the firewall or other device performing stateful inspection provides the context used to block DNS spoofing and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Network Security Stateful inspection improves general network and cloud security for all assets screened by the feature.

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‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS Attack Hits HTTP/2 Web Servers

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A vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol dubbed “Rapid Reset” has led to record DDoS attacks on web servers in recent months. In the meantime, the best defense is using a DDoS mitigation service like Cloudflare’s in front of any web-facing web or API server.”

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

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Whether you’re operating a global enterprise network or a small family business, your network’s security needs to be optimized with tools, teams, and processes to protect customer data and valuable business assets. Many of these tools protect resources connected to networks, thus shutting down threats as early as possible.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – October 16, 2023 – DDoS, Microsoft, Apple & Linux Lead a Busy Week

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The past week has been an eventful one for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, from record DDoS attacks and three Microsoft zero-days to vulnerabilities in Linux, Apple, Citrix, and other widely used technologies. The botnet compromises these devices and enlists them in its DDoS swarm by exploiting several vulnerabilities in them.

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What Is DNS Security? Everything You Need to Know

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How DNS Security Works DNS security protects against compromise through layers of security and filtering similar to the way next generation firewalls (NGFW) protect communication data flows. For example, DNSSEC improves resistance against DNS cache poisoning, but does not address DNS tunneling or any of the DNS DDoS attacks.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

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Implementing these best practices will not only protect DNS but also network security in general because properly protected DNS can also protect email, endpoints, and other network systems from attack. Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks.

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