eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A host-based firewall is installed directly on individual networked devices to filter network traffic on a single device by inspecting both incoming and outgoing data. Larger enterprises use this to manage the spread of malware throughout a network in the event that one device is infected.

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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) If your staff can log on to the internet to access their emails, so can an attacker.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

The most important and integral part of any data security begins with having firewalls installed in the environment. Not just that, installing firewalls is an essential requirement of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS ). What is a PCI DSS Compliant Firewall? Protect cardholder data with a firewall.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

A firewall policy is a set of rules and standards designed to control network traffic between an organization’s internal network and the internet. Featured Partners: Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW) Software Learn more Table of Contents Toggle Free Firewall Policy Template What Are the Components of Firewall Policies?

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Since it’s a live event, 100 percent uptime is imperative for the Super Bowl, ensuring fans don’t miss a moment of the action. The Super Bowl is the largest sporting and television event in the United States, with nearly 100 million viewers. Securing an event of this magnitude can be quite a challenge.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

When creating a BCP, the following guiding questions can serve as a starting point: How would the organization function if critical systems such as computers, laptops, servers, email, and the Internet were unavailable? Collect and safeguard critical artifacts such as event logs, system logs, and authentication records from corporate systems.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. This activity results in a rich matrix of overlapping threat feeds that, if all of the slices could somehow be combined, would present a heat map of an Internet throbbing with malicious traffic that unceasingly changes and steadily intensifies.

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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? There is greater awareness that IT functions can work together to improve the gathering of data, analytics, and prioritization of security-related events to improve the organization’s resiliency.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

Physical security is the protection of people, property, and physical assets from actions and events that could cause damage or loss. All the firewalls in the world can’t help you if an attacker removes your storage media from the storage room. Though often overlooked in favor of cybersecurity, physical security is equally important.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

One in four SolarWinds Orion servers exposed to the internet at the time of an era-defining espionage campaign have been taken off the internet. One in four SolarWinds Orion servers exposed to the internet at the time of an era-defining espionage campaign have been taken off the internet, RiskRecon reports. 12 and Feb.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

With large-scale security crises being one of the most relevant threats worldwide, it’s more important than ever to reflect on past events, assess emerging threats, and, most crucially, explore strategies to prevent future incidents. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened? Why does it matter?

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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.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Today is the 20th Safer Internet Day. Since 2004, there's been an annual event designed to "Promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world." The Windows Firewall enabled by default, and the Internet Explorer popup blocker.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 7, 2024

The annual Black Hat conference, happening this week in Las Vegas, is renowned not only for its cutting-edge presentations and workshops but also for its robust cybersecurity measures that protect the large event from malicious threat actors. Black Hat is a prime target for cybercriminals due to its status as a premier cybersecurity event.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2023

When it comes to protecting their network, most start with the basic firewall. So, what type of internet connection is the most secure? Meet the contenders First off, it is important to understand the different types of internet connections. Copper : Copper cables are the original internet connections.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A DoS attack that caused disruptions at a power utility in the United States exploited a flaw in a firewall used in the facility. The incident took place earlier this year, threat actors exploited a known vulnerability in a firewall used by the affected facility to cause disruption. and 7 p.m., and 7 p.m.,

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Security information and event management, or SIEM, could yet turn out to be the cornerstone technology for securing enterprise networks as digital transformation unfolds. Fundamentally, SIEMs collect event log data from internet traffic, as well as corporate hardware and software assets. Poor usage. Talk more soon.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For effective DDoS defense, priority for patching and updates should be placed on devices between the most valuable resources and the internet such as firewalls, gateways , websites, and applications. Hardening includes, but is not limited to: Block unused ports on servers and firewalls. User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. Configure network firewalls to block unauthorized IP addresses and disable port forwarding.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2024

The attackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Zyxel firewalls used by many critical infrastructure operators in Denmark. On April 25, 2023, Zyxel disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVSS score 9.8), tracked as CVE-2023-28771 , in a number of their firewalls. According to the report, 11 companies were immediately compromised.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

85% of the attacker IPs were observed only on a single day demonstrating that Layer 3 IP-based firewalls are not effective against these attacks because threat actors rotate same IPs to launch attacks. Each firewall policy might block 600-3,000 known scanner IP addresses. each SSH honeypot was compromised on average 26 times per day.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Part Two: Firewalls -> Web Application Firewalls (WAF). In fact, over a quarter of all websites on the internet use WordPress as a platform, and nearly half of the web is estimated to utilize some kind of content management system. A WAF does not replace the Network Firewall, nor vice-versa.

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Cisco Security

JULY 18, 2022

In an increasingly vulnerable Internet environment, where attackers rapidly develop new techniques to compromise organizations around the world, ensuring a robust security infrastructure becomes ever more imperative. Such data encompasses network telemetry, firewall logging, and remote worker telemetry.

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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. Internal data The first place to look is within.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

Threat actors exploited the flaw to gain remote firewall access and breach corporate networks. In light of these events, we have been monitoring attempts to gain unauthorized access to VPNs of Check Point’s customers. The vulnerability CVE-2024-24919 is a Quantum Gateway information disclosure issue.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

Sophos and Fortinet both appear on our list of the top next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) , and while both offer very good security at their price points, they serve very different markets. If you’re just looking for a firewall with good security, Sophos will do. Fortinet offers virtual firewalls too for hybrid cloud use cases.

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

A firewall with the right threat intelligence embedded could have blocked communications with the command-and-control server thus preventing a Trojanized Orion install from connecting back to the attackers and stopping them from furthering the attack. But recent events have worked to undermine this growing understanding.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But Will Thomas , a cyber threat intelligence researcher at Equinix, found an Internet address in the leaked data that corresponds to a domain flagged in a 2019 Citizen Lab report about one-click mobile phone exploits that were being used to target groups in Tibet. But that’s getting harder to do.”

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And while Ampol’s history goes back a century, they are a modern organization, using internet of things (IoT) technology across operational and retail locations, with sensors on everything from electric vehicle charging units to fuel tank gauges to transportation trucks to refrigeration units inside retail stores.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This line of events made some researchers wonder how private the conversations really were. An investigation by the Stanford Internet Observatory found that some of the back-end infrastructure for the Clubhouse App was provided by Agora. The Stanford Internet Observatory. Exactly what Clubhouse needed to roll out their app.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. But this hasn’t done the trick. Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet? So, what's the right approach?

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Contrary to conventional packet (or NetFlow) filters – which are devices that check only the packet headers for information regarding Internet Protocol (IP) address, source, and destination as well as port numbers — DPI examines a much larger range of metadata. To read this article in full, please click here

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2020

I’ve written about the how SIEMs ingest log and event data from all across hybrid networks, and about how UEBA and SOAR technologies have arisen in just the past few years to help companies try to make sense of it all, even as catastrophic breaches persist. launch at RSA 2020. Or at least it should be. I’ll keep watch.

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