SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Start small, skill up The starting line is all about building up some basic skills—networking basics, firewall configuration, system hardening, threat analysis, and access control. Dive into core cybersecurity concepts like encryption, secure password practices, endpoint protection, and incident response.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 5, 2025

Ransomware gangs don't need to find a vulnerability in your firewall if they can find it in your people. What should have been a contained intrusion becomes a company-wide encryption event with a multimillion-dollar ransom demand. And once the encryption starts, it's already too late to mount an organized defense.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2024

Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – How The Great Firewall Of China Detects And Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3) These are the foremost reasons China is ranked fourth worst globally regarding press freedoms.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft first noticed that to conceal malicious traffic, the threat actor routes it through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network devices, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware. critical infrastructure in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the United States.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 11, 2022

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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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

The encrypted China Chopper variant, frequently used by the attackers, employed AES encryption to evade detection by Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). This encryption allowed the attackers to bypass automated detection mechanisms, making forensic analysis challenging.

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Cisco Security

MAY 17, 2021

Among the most consequential is Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.0, We’ve increased throughput by up to 30%—across enabled AVC, IPS, and VPN services—for the majority of Cisco Secure Firewalls. With the new integration, Secure Workload dynamically informs Secure Firewall of recommended changes. Bringing Back Visibility .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

A new ransomware strain named Rorschach ransomware supports the fastest file-encrypting routine observed to date. The researchers conducted five separate encryption speed tests in a controlled environment (with 6 CPUs, 8192MB RAM, SSD, and 220000 files to be encrypted), limited to local drive encryption only.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

The 4th Annual Multi-Cloud Conference and Workshop on ZTNA is an upcoming event for anyone interested in how the federal government is advancing standards in ZTNA. The event—May 24-25; in-person and virtual—is hosted by NIST and Tetrate. Encryption in transit provides eavesdropping protection and payload authenticity.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This intel often gets leveraged by firewall suppliers who tap into a small selection of what they figure to be the most helpful threat feeds to configure their products. Rashed “The RuleGATE sits in front of the firewall and looks at the traffic coming into the network — and leaving the network,” Rashed told me.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Physical security is the protection of personnel and IT infrastructure (such as hardware, software, and data) from physical actions and events that could cause severe damage to an organization. All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 19, 2020

Better Network and Firewall Protection: By routing an employee’s internet traffic through your company network, you can provide the same firewalls and network-level protection that they’d have working at an office with robust cybersecurity defenses. Here are five ways VPNs can keep remote employees secure. The post Remote Workforce?

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Using the Cisco Secure Endpoint APIs, partner integrations provide analysts with rich threat information and actions on endpoint events; like retrieving endpoint information, hunting indicators on endpoints, searching events, etc. Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition, it allows you to collect hourly events from Cisco Secure Endpoint through the USM Anywhere Job Scheduler. The Cisco Secure Endpoint App on ServiceNow provides users with the ability to integrate event data from the Cisco Secure Endpoint into ServiceNow by creating ITSM incidents. Read more here. Read more here. Sumo Logic.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. Once the hackers gain an inside entry in an organisation’s IT systems, they deploy a file-encrypting malware known as ransomware. While front line defense mechanisms like firewalls, anti-theft, anti-spyware, etc. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:55.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2025

Traditional protections like firewalls, encryption, MFA, and IDS/IPS continue to be crucial, but these are reactive methods to an extent, and their effectiveness heavily depends on how well they are configured. If they remain static in a dynamic environment, they'll become irrelevant very quickly.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

These platforms make it possible for security teams to analyze consolidated threat feeds from various external alerts and log events. TIPs contextualize these threats, offering security teams more information, usually at a faster rate than vendor threat feeds.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

The solution includes cloud sandboxing technology, preventing zero-day threats, and full disk encryption capability for enhanced data protection. ESET Protect Advanced complies with data regulation thanks to full disk encryption capabilities on Windows and macOS. It offers firewalls, endpoint protection, cloud access and more.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

Best Cybersecurity Solutions : Overall Vendor Top Startup EDR Firewall SIEM Intrusion Detection Breach and Attack Simulation Encryption Small Business Security Email Security IAM NAC Vulnerability Management Security Awareness Training. Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW): Palo Alto Networks. Winner : Palo Alto Networks.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Next-generation firewalls NGFW Fortinet Palo Alto Networks. Security information and event management SIEM Splunk IBM. Web application firewall WAF Akamai Imperva. From managed firewalls and IDPS, advanced endpoint threat protection, and web application scanning, Secureworks can fill cybersecurity software gaps.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

BleepingComputer researchers confirmed that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover their files encrypted with the WastedLocker Ransomware. Expert found a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet ’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that can allow access to the FortiSIEM Supervisor.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Encryption protects data both in transit and at rest. Firewalls and web application firewalls ( WAFs ) filter network traffic. Backup and Disaster Recovery: Data backup and disaster recovery plans assure data availability and business continuity in the event of data loss or service failures.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Security Misconfigurations Inadequately designed security settings, such as open ports, lax access restrictions, or misconfigured firewall rules, might expose infrastructure vulnerabilities. Breaking Encryption Encryption is a key security solution for both at-rest and in-transit data protection.

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Cisco Security

JULY 18, 2022

In essence, it represents a new and improved database architecture design that can be made up of virtual or physical appliances to provide industry leading horizontal scaling for telemetry and event retention for over a year. Such data encompasses network telemetry, firewall logging, and remote worker telemetry.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

One way of dealing with that is to simply block the devices from receiving any updates: Troy, Firewall Rule number 1 for HA and Home IoT subnets (although breaks Wiz Bulb connectivity even though they have a “local” access API) pic.twitter.com/RGOhsGaq7F — GerryD ©? The vulnerability is the result of weak encryption used by TP-Link.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Use web application firewalls (WAF) and network firewalls Typically installed at the edge of your network, a web application firewall (WAF) filters traffic to web application servers, one of the more vulnerable parts of your attack surface. Encrypt remote connections whenever possible.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The tools also depend upon physical controls that should also be implemented against malicious physical access to destroy or compromise networking equipment such as routers, cables, switches, firewalls, and other networking appliances. These physical controls do not rely upon IT technology and will be assumed to be in place.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web. Technical controls may be implemented by: Hardware appliances : switches, routers, firewalls, etc. Encryption will regularly be used to protect the data from interception.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

Experts noticed that the ransomware doesn’t contain a list of targeted file types, it encrypts every file in a folder and can potentially render the application and even the entire operating system becoming inoperable. The ransomware itself is quite small as it only really is used to perform the encryption of the files on the targeted system.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

and DoH, which is a method that uses the HTTPS protocol to encrypt DNS requests, shielding their contents from malicious actors and others who might misuse such information. Correctly managing encrypted DNS can be very challenging. But in practice, questions of privacy online are a bit more complex. What does the NSA caution against?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2022

The alarms were triggered when events from Trend Micro showed assets using Server Message Block (SMB) port 445 in which a single source was communicating with multiple destinations. Events search. This analysis revealed all of the internal assets and their events’ sources and destinations. Event deep dive.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

Real-life examples of depth of defense Network Perimeter: Organizations often deploy firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and network monitoring tools at the network perimeter to prevent unauthorized access. Data Level: Encrypting sensitive data at rest and in transit is crucial to securing information.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Also Read: Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors. Other features include applying secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) and AES-256 encryption. Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

EdgeConnect Enterprise critically comes with firewall , segmentation , and application control capabilities. The first traditional cybersecurity vendor featured is Barracuda Networks, with consistent recognition for its email security , next-generation firewalls ( NGFW ), web application security , and backups. Features: Cisco SD-WAN.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

Web Application and API protection (WAAP) , the next generation of Web Application Firewall (WAF) comes to the rescue. This is simply an extension of the requirement for VLANs, firewalls, RASPs, and WAFs. A Web Application Firewall is an important part of AppSec but there are some limitations with its static rule-based protection.

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