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GUEST ESSAY: Lessons learned in 2021 as cloud services, mobility and cybersecurity collided

The Last Watchdog

Cybercriminals have taken advantage of security challenges that arise from the new model of remote work and collaboration. Last year, we predicted that SASE would be an essential strategic initiative, design approach, and implementation standard for enterprise network and network security deployments around the globe.

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Integrating Perimeter and Internal Defenses: 5 Facts That May or May Not Surprise

Cisco Security

This blog has been authored by Frank Dickson, Program Vice President, Cybersecurity Products Practice, and Christopher Rodriguez, Research Director, IDC Network Security. IDC recently had the opportunity to talk to CISOs regarding the integration of Cisco Secure Workload and Secure Firewall.

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. A methodical drive has been underway for at least the past decade to affect a transition to a new network security paradigm – one less rooted in the past and better suited for what’s coming next.

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SHARED INTEL: Report details how cyber criminals leverage HTTPS TLS to hide malware

The Last Watchdog

This surge in TLS abuse has shifted the security community’s focus back to a venerable network security tool, the firewall. These are the data packets arriving at a trusted destination, i.e. the firewall’s home network, from an untrusted source, i.e. the public Internet.

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Insider Threats and Security at the Edge

Security Boulevard

Edge computing is a vital component of digital transformation, allowing data to be analyzed and used in real-time closer to the point where it is created and consumed.

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SHARED INTEL: FireMon survey shows security lags behind fast pace of hybrid cloud deployments

The Last Watchdog

Yet ignorance persists when it comes to a momentous challenge at hand: how to go about tapping the benefits of digital transformation while also keeping cyber exposures to a minimum level. One big muddle revolves around the so-called “ shared responsibility ” security model, espoused by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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MY TAKE: Why new tools, tactics are needed to mitigate risks introduced by widespread encryption

The Last Watchdog

TLS is the glue that holds together not just routine website data exchanges, but also each of the billions of machine-to-machine handshakes occurring daily to enable DevOps, cloud computing and IoT systems. Without TLS, digital transformation would come apart at the seams.