eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The network firewall is the first line of defense for traffic that passes in and out of a network. The firewall examines traffic to ensure it meets the security requirements set by the organization, and unauthorized access attempts are blocked. Firewall protection has come a long way in recent years. Next-generation firewalls.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Firewalls are as central to IT security as antivirus programs are to PCs, and the multi-billion-dollar market remains large and growing. But the term “firewall” is far too broad to be of much use to IT security buyers. Types of Firewalls. What is a Firewall? Firewalls protect both on-premises and cloud environments.

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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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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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Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2024

Over twenty years on, some of the same policy-driven firewall misconfigurations are still pervasive, especially with today’s increasingly complex – and sometimes poor – cybersecurity postures. When the firewall is to blame, it’s often a firewall misconfiguration that provides attackers with unintended access.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2021

As a network and workload security strategy leader, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the good old network firewall. Spoiler alert: I’m not going to join the cool club of pronouncing the firewall dead. The two main problems for the firewall to overcome in all those new deployment scenarios are insertion and visibility.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug. victims and one non-U.S.

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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. In fact, applications are continuously evolving as new technologies and services emerge.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

With traditional firewalls, network security teams are charged with the heavy lifting of deploying new solutions. According to Gartner, by 2025, 30% of new deployments of distributed branch-office firewalls will switch to firewall-as-a-service, up from less than 10% in 2021. Introduction. Starting with version 7.1

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Content delivery network (CDN) and cloud security services provider Akamai Technologies has added a network cloud firewall capability to its cloud-based DDoS platform, Akamai Prolexic.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2023

By Jayakumar (Jay) Kurup, Global Sales Engineering Director at Morphisec Securing operational technology (OT) creates unique challenges. Sometimes this is due to cultural reasons (management’s fear of even the slightest chance of disruption); other times, it is technological. You try to air-gap it. Great in theory.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 14, 2024

Introduction Remote work has become an integral part of the modern workplace, driven by advances in technology and changing work cultures. Protecting sensitive information and maintaining seamless connectivity across distributed environments necessitates robust cybersecurity measures, with firewalls playing a crucial role.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 20, 2023

The terms computer security, information security and cybersecurity were practically non-existent in the 1980s, but believe it or not, firewalls have existed in some form since that time. Over the years, the traditional firewall has transformed to meet the demands of the modern workplace and adapt to an evolving threat landscape.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2023

Researchers at Censys have identified hundreds of devices deployed within federal networks that have internet-exposed management interfaces. The experts focused on roughly 1,300 of these hosts that were accessible online and discovered hundreds of devices with management interfaces exposed to the public internet. ” states CISA.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

A vulnerability in Sophos Cyberoam firewalls could be exploited by an attacker to gain access to a target’s internal network without authentication. Sophos addressed a vulnerability in its Cyberoam firewalls that could be exploited by an attacker to gain access to a company’s internal network without providing a password.

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PCI perspectives

AUGUST 31, 2022

Recently, our organization teamed up with the Consumer Technology Association to issue a joint bulletin on a very important topic, security surrounding the Internet of Things, or IoT.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. A Safer Internet of Things. Don’t Forget the Application Layer.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

What’s more, it will likely take a blend of legacy security technologies – in advanced iterations – combined with a new class of smart security tools to cut through the complexities of defending contemporary business networks. That said, a couple of prominent legacy technologies seem sure to endure as security cornerstones, moving forward.

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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. It will be interesting to see how quickly SOP solutions catch on.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Web application firewalls (WAFs) are a critical component for robust application security. At the same time, WAF technology is increasingly a part of more comprehensive security solutions like next-generation firewalls (NGFW), unified threat management (UTM), and more. Best Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Checkpoint.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

Researchers at RandoriSec have found serious vulnerabilities in the firmware provided by UDP Technology to Geutebrück and many other IP camera vendors. According to the researchers the firmware supplier UDP Technology fails to respond to their reports despite numerous mails and LinkedIn messages.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 23, 2019

I recently sat down with Gadi Naor, CTO and co-founder of Alcide , to learn more about the “microservices firewall” this Tel Aviv-based security start-up is pioneering. At the end of the day, Dev and DevOps, not IT, are the ones driving adoption of these new technologies,” Naor told me. Talk more soon.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used for command and control (C2) of the underlying botnet. The botnet “targets network devices manufactured by WatchGuard Technologies Inc. WatchGuard) and ASUSTek Computer Inc. Those devices are still vulnerable.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2018

Erecting next-generation firewalls does nothing to deter a threat actor in possession of a phished logon, who is also expert at laying low, locating valuable data and methodically escalating privileges to get at a company’s crown jewels – just ask Equifax, Uber, Tesla, Panera Bread and myriad others. Unified access.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2024

In this advisory, I aim to explore how implementing a specific security technological combination (TLS and DDNS) negatively influences the overall security, inadvertently creating opportunities for attackers to exploit weaknesses on a massive scale. For instance, suppose firewall manufacturer ACME Inc.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Monitoring and management of many existing industrial control systems’ (ICS) embedded devices, like pumps, valves and turbines, are ancient in technological terms. Isolating OT operations from public networks like the internet had once been considered best practice. Dismantling the silos. Expensive collateral damage.

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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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Adam Levin

MARCH 19, 2020

Configure a Firewall: Most routers come with a built-in firewall to block unauthorized incoming internet traffic. Encourage workers to check the existing settings and enable their router’s firewall if it isn’t running already. Passwords should be difficult to guess, but easy enough for employees to remember.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2024

The cyber security expert Larry Cashdollar of Akamai Technologies reported the vulnerability to CISA. The US Agency advises users to reduce the risk of exploitation of the vulnerability CVE-2024-7029 by: Limiting network exposure of control system devices to prevent internet access.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

DMZ networks are also helpful for separating out third-party servers, routers, and other technologies and platforms that don’t have as many manageable security features and controls built in. However, when your DMZ network includes a proxy server, administrators also have the option to filter all internal internet usage through the DMZ.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. Here are the key takeaways: Surprise packages.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Fortinet has recently fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The vulnerability in the management interface of FortiWeb firewall was discovered by Andrey Medov, from cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Cisco helped the NFL achieve a strong, continuously available and protected Super Bowl enterprise network through a mix of cloud and on-premises security technology, up-to-the-minute threat intelligence, and some of the industry’s most talented cybersecurity professionals. Integrated technology and intelligence .

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 19, 2024

LW: In what noteworthy ways have legacy technologies evolved? Ollmann: Cybersecurity technologies are continuously evolving; they must because both the threat and the business requirements are continuously changing. That said, to date the two biggest changes and influences upon legacy technologies have been public cloud and AI.

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