Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In any perimeter defense a key component is firewalls—the proverbial guard towers in your fortifications. In this Threat Trends release, we’ll be looking at Cisco Secure Firewall. The goal is to highlight the common threats that organizations encounter and block with Secure Firewall. Secure Firewall version 7.0

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Modernize your firewall for greater security resilience. Cybersecurity has changed dramatically since the dawn of firewalls in the 1980s. Today’s workers, data, and applications are everywhere, and firewalls must be as well. So, can your firewall grow with you? The firewall is a critical foundation for security.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“I so look forward to the next firewall hardware upgrade cycle!”. – If I learned one thing from my firewall customers over the many years, it would be that they like to upgrade their hardware appliances as much as an average consumer likes to shop for a new car. This is how the new mid-range Secure Firewall 3100 Series was born.

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Cisco Security

MAY 20, 2022

To help our customers and partners, we have centralized all our cloud & automation resources for Secure Firewall into a single page: [link]. Our new page is organized by cloud provider and specific use case to easily deploy Secure Firewall. Cisco Live 2022 Las Vegas & sessions focused on Secure Firewall and IaC.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2022

Cisco Secure Firewall stops threats faster, empowers collaboration between teams, and enables consistency across your on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The entire suite of Firewall Management Center APIs is now available in the cloud. This integration between Firewall 7.2 Move to the Cloud. With the 7.2

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As part of our strategy to enhance application awareness for SecOps practitioners, our new Secure Firewall Application Detectors portal, [link] , provides the latest and most comprehensive application risk information available in the cybersecurity space. What is new in Firewall Threat Defense? Release Notes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2024

Palo Alto Networks fixed several vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS operating system, including 3 issues that can trigger a DoS condition on its firewalls. Repeated attacks can eventually trigger a DoS condition by forcing the firewall into maintenance mode, requiring manual intervention to restore online functionality.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Claroty researchers devised a technique for bypassing the web application firewalls (WAF) of several vendors. Researchers at industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty devised an attack technique for bypassing the web application firewalls (WAF) of several industry-leading vendors. ” reads the report published by Claroty.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

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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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

It is generalized and entry-level, but it demonstrates a core level of competency that can be a building block of almost any career in cybersecurity, whether in administration, engineering, or development. It’s obviously a step to penetration testing, but it’s also helpful for architect, engineer, and analyst jobs.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 22, 2025

If you are looking to improve your cybersecurity, consider these plugins to build a more robust defence: Wordfence: A comprehensive security solution with a firewall, malware scanner, and login security features like two-factor authentication. SEO Search engine optimisation (SEO) is essential for attracting organic traffic.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

Keep an eye out for security announcements from your firewall vendors; it’s possible additional similar vulnerabilities will come to light. The problem: Juniper Networks released a bulletin about a remote code execution vulnerability in its SRX firewalls and EX switches. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-21591.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” There has been a significant rise in ransomware actors using social engineering techniques to gain unauthorized access to sensitive systems and data. What Happened?

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Let me tell you about possibly my favorite onsite social engineering team engagement I have ever done! So, before we start, what exactly is tribe mentality, and why is it important to social engineering ? So, before we start, what exactly is tribe mentality, and why is it important to social engineering ? What do you see?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Team82 researchers have disclosed an attack technique that bypasses industry-leading web application firewalls (WAFs) by appending JSON syntax to SQL injection payloads. The researchers used a WAF shortcoming against the firewalls: Lack of support for native JSON syntax. “This turned out to be JSON.”

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Limitations of traditional security measures While organizations typically rely on email filters, firewalls, and antivirus software, these solutions often fall short against AI-powered phishing attacks. This dynamic nature allows attackers to bypass traditional defenses and increase their success rates significantly.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

The advisory placed much of the blame on Versa customers who “failed to implement system hardening and firewall guidelines…leaving a management port exposed on the internet that provided the threat actors with initial access.” Versa said the weakness allows attackers to upload a file of their choosing to vulnerable systems.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This is because the whole paradigm around security training is building technical knowledge; whereas the whole point of successful social engineering is to bypass the logical and rational brain and bait the subconscious and emotions. Cybersecurity training isn't the full solution. So what do we do? Cue the Dunning-Kruger effect in full force.)

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The Cisco Secure Technical Alliance supports the open ecosystem and AWS is a valued technology alliance partner, with integrations across the Cisco Secure portfolio, including SecureX, Secure Firewall, Secure Cloud Analytics, Duo, Umbrella, Web Security Appliance, Secure Workload, Secure Endpoint, Identity Services Engine, and more.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Cisco uniquely integrates security and networking, for instance we recently integrated Cisco Secure Firewall to operate on Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series switches. Additionally, Secure Firewall can be deployed in a containerized form, on-premises and in clouds.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. Some of the countermeasures that can be considered are CCTV, alarms, firewalls, exterior lighting, fences, and locks. The next implementation method is to develop countermeasures to avoid loss of assets.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

According to a source with direct knowledge of the breach investigation, the problem stemmed in part from a misconfigured open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) that Capital One was using as part of its operations hosted in the cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2020

Case in point: unsecured webcams make up the top three out of the five most popular searches on Shodan , an IoT-centric search engine that specializes in identifying unsecure devices online. Consider setting up a firewall: One of the main ways that hackers find and access non-secure web cameras is by probing networks for points of entry.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

The TCU is designed as a stand-alone processor that will reside on a motherboard next to a CPU, GPU or other compute engine. Hardware with a TCU included will allow companies to pre-emptively detect threats and minimize the endless and often inadequate number of security patches they have been forced to choose for years.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 23, 2019

First commercially introduced in 2013, Cisco Trust Anchor module (TAm) is a proprietary hardware security module used in a wide range of Cisco products, including enterprise routers, switches and firewalls. TAm is the root of trust that underpins all other Cisco security and trustworthy computing mechanisms in these devices.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

CISA adds Array Networks AG and vxAG ArrayOS flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Thai police arrested Chinese hackers involved in SMS blaster attacks Zyxel firewalls targeted in recent ransomware attacks Malware campaign abused flawed Avast Anti-Rootkit driver Russia-linked APT TAG-110 uses targets Europe and Asia Russia-linked threat (..)

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In some ways, CrowdSec mimics the behavior of a constantly-self-updating, massive, multi-party, and multi-network firewall. Like a classic network-layer firewall, CrowdSec allows administrators to configure all sorts of OSI Middle Level (i.e., Levels 3 Network and Level 4 Transport) rules. CrowdSec released version 1.0

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

CISA adds Ivanti CSA and Fortinet bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Mozilla issued an urgent Firefox update to fix an actively exploited flaw Palo Alto fixed critical flaws in PAN-OS firewalls that allow for full compromise of the devices Cybercriminals Are Targeting AI Conversational Platforms Awaken Likho APT group targets Russian (..)

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

For instance, included in the Pastebin files from Orvis were plaintext usernames and passwords for just about every kind of online service or security product the company has used, including: -Antivirus engines. Multiple firewall products. Orvis says the exposure was inadvertent, and that many of the credentials were already expired.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

LW: Why are suppliers of legacy firewall, vulnerability management and EDR solutions also now integrating SIEM capabilities? SOAR uses the output of detection engines and investigations and recommends workflows or playbooks to build a response plan, saving time and effort.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2021

“Guides for cheats will typically ask users to disable or uninstall antivirus software and host firewalls, disable kernel code signing, etc.” . “It is common practice when configuring a cheat program to run it the with the highest system privileges,” the report notes. ” Detailed report.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 31, 2024

Developed by Trustwave’s SpiderLabs, this open-source web application firewall (WAF) engine supports Apache, IIS, and Nginx. In the world of web application security, ModSecurity has long been a good choice against cyber threats.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Installing up-to-date firewalls , secure access controls, and intrusion detection systems is a must. Cybersecurity awareness training helps staff recognize phishing scams , social engineering attempts, and other threats. Here are some essential steps every business can consider to safeguard against cyberthreats: 1.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

That said, the next-generation firewall (NGFW) market — where we also list Palo Alto as a leader — has gotten tougher in recent years, with low-cost competitors like Versa Networks and Sangfor offering good firewalls at lower cost. It was also named a Leader in a Forrester Wave for Enterprise Firewalls.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Making hot desking secure and accessible on a global scale The first rule of interviewing a CISO at the Australian division of Laing O’Rourke is this: You can’t dig deep into use cases or cli… Read more on Cisco Blogs Laing O'Rourke used Cisco Secure Firewall and Identity Services Engine to deliver global, secure network access.

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