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What Are Firewall Rules? Ultimate Guide & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Firewall rules are preconfigured, logical computing controls that give a firewall instructions for permitting and blocking network traffic. Network admins must configure firewall rules that protect their data and applications from threat actors. It manages inbound web server traffic, the connection requests from remote sources.

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Financial Services: Web Application Attacks Grow by 38% In First Half of 2021

Security Boulevard

The post Financial Services: Web Application Attacks Grow by 38% In First Half of 2021 appeared first on Blog. The post Financial Services: Web Application Attacks Grow by 38% In First Half of 2021 appeared first on Security Boulevard. In later interviews, Sutton disclaimed the quote. Regardless, the […].

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Web Application Firewalls Instrumental in Digital-First Banking

Security Boulevard

For today’s customers, who increasingly begin their banking experiences using digital channels, whether online or mobile, a digital-first approach is the best way for financial firms to meet their […]. The post Web Application Firewalls Instrumental in Digital-First Banking appeared first on Blog.

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Threat Trends: DNS Security, Part 2

Cisco Security

This is what we covered in part one of this Threat Trends release on DNS Security, using data from Cisco Umbrella , our cloud-native security service. For example, those in the financial services industry may see more activity around information stealers; others in manufacturing may be more likely to encounter ransomware.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

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. Related: Why we’re in the Golden Age of cyber espionage. But this hasn’t done the trick.

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RSAC insights: Introducing ‘CWPP’ and ‘CSPM,’ new frameworks to secure cloud infrastructure

The Last Watchdog

The summer of 2019 was a heady time for the financial services industry. To defend its web applications, the bank chose to go with an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF), called ModSecurity, along with an open-source Apache web server. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks.

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Critical RCE affects older Diebold Nixdorf ATMs

Security Affairs

The focused their analysis on the Spiservice service listening on post 8043. “Look at the output of command, there is a service (Spiservice) which running on port 8043. The SpiService.exe is associated with XFS, the Extension for Financial Services DLL library (MSXFS.dll) that is specifically used by ATMs.”

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