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What Is an Application Level Gateway? How ALGs Work

eSecurity Planet

An application gateway, also known as an application level gateway (ALG), functions as a critical firewall proxy for network security. Understanding ALGs involves knowing how they work, their pros and cons, and how they integrate with or differ from other types of firewalls.

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What Is a Secure Web Gateway? Features, Benefits & Challenges

eSecurity Planet

Secure web gateways (SWGs) are network security solutions that monitor and filter internet traffic to guard against threats and ensure policy compliance. They can be cloud-based or on-premises, preventing data loss while securing access to web-based apps and the internet.

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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

IaaS is a cloud computing model that uses the internet to supply virtualized computer resources. Security Misconfigurations Inadequately designed security settings, such as open ports, lax access restrictions, or misconfigured firewall rules, might expose infrastructure vulnerabilities.

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Forging the Path to Continuous Audit Readiness

CyberSecurity Insiders

Second, the tasks required to ascertain control and policy compliance details, resolve violations and provide adherence proof are resource intensive and error prone. Overall, these audit challenges yield increased compliance gaps, prolonged audits, unplanned expenditures, and greater penalty and procedure refactoring costs.

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Network Security Policies

Security Boulevard

Acceptable Use This policy outlines the acceptable use of network resources, specifying what activities are permitted and prohibited. It covers aspects like internet usage, email communication, and the use of company devices. This centralized approach ensures consistency and reduces the risk of policy violations.

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Top 5 Application Security Tools & Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

WAF integration: Web application firewalls (WAF) are a crucial line of defense for web applications, inspecting traffic, enforcing security policies, and protecting against a wide range of web-based attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS).

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Xen and the Art of Vulnerability Maintenance

NopSec

This recent spate of malicious attacks has shown just how vulnerable our Internet-based world is. In the era of ‘Internet of Things’, minor flaws can have catastrophic consequences if vulnerabilities are not fixed in time. The main objective of penetration testing is to determine IT security weaknesses.