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A 3-Tiered Approach to Securing Your Home Network

Daniel Miessler

Most home networks get broken into through either phishing or some random device they have with a bad password. It’s usually a password that was never configured or never changed from the default. Use a password manager to make and store good passwords that are different for every account/device.

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Anton on Security

There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. A password manager claimed “zero trust for passwords” while a SIEM/UEBA vendor promised to reveal all zero trust secrets (I bet they use VPN internally…). A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.”

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The Case for Multi-Vendor Security Integrations

Cisco Security

This new integration supports Umbrella proxy, cloud firewall, IP, and DNS logs. This integration expands on Elastic’s on-going expansion of Cisco integrations including ASA, Nexus, Meraki, Duo and Secure Firewall Threat Defense. New Cisco Firepower Next-Gen Firewall Integrations. Read more here. Read more here.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

That’s why penetration testing tools are most often used in conjunction with other cybersecurity tools, such as BAS, vulnerability management, patch management , and IT asset management tools. NDR solutions are designed to integrate well with the rest of your cybersecurity solutions stack.

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Building a Ransomware Resilient Architecture

eSecurity Planet

All inter-VLAN traffic should go through a firewall. This process goes against typical plans for most network administrators, who use firewalls at the network’s edge (Figure 1 ) and a fast switch on the LAN to route inter-VLAN traffic. The problem is this: firewalls big enough to handle this traffic and speed are expensive.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

The tools also depend upon physical controls that should also be implemented against malicious physical access to destroy or compromise networking equipment such as routers, cables, switches, firewalls, and other networking appliances. need to be managed both at the application level as well as the network level.

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How to Configure a Router to Use WPA2 in 7 Easy Steps

eSecurity Planet

And while you’re in there, update that password to something a little less hackable, possibly saving the new one in a password manager. As long as you’re in there, you should take address any security warnings; perhaps your firewall security setting is too low, for example.