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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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NEW TECH: ‘Micro-segmentation’ security vendor Guardicore seeks to disrupt firewall market

The Last Watchdog

It gives system administrators a way to secure each microsegment, separately. So we don’t break anything or leave too many things open, like a firewall might do.” Disrupting firewalls Gurvich makes no bones about the fact that Guardicore has set out to disrupt a portion of the $9 billion firewall market.

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Fortinet addresses 4 vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls

Security Affairs

Security vendor Fortinet has addressed four vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls, including a Remote Code Execution flaw. Fortinet has addressed four vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls that were reported by Positive Technologies expert Andrey Medov. . The second one allows arbitrary code execution.

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

These were all obscure open-source components that, over time, became deeply embedded in enterprise systems across the breadth of the Internet, only to have a gaping vulnerability discovered in them late in the game. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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9 SSH Key Management Best Practices You Need to Know

Security Boulevard

In today’s distributed workplace model, privileged remote access to servers and systems is essential to ensure smooth operations. IT teams worldwide use SSH keys daily for remote system administration, support and maintenance, and file transfers. Secure Shell (SSH) keys play a pivotal role in facilitating this access securely.

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Black Hat insights: Getting bombarded by multiple ransomware attacks has become commonplace

The Last Watchdog

Major vulnerabilities left unpatched, as well as weakly configured system administration tools are sure to get discovered and manipulated, not just once, but many times over. Each of the three ransomware gangs encrypted whatever systems they could get their hands on; and each left its own ransom demand.

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FBI Issues Private Industry Notification in Light of Florida Water Plant Hack

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. “Beyond its legitimate uses, TeamViewer allows cyber actors to exercise remote control over computer systems and drop files onto victim computers, making it functionally similar to Remote Access Trojans (RATs),” the FBI said.

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