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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a human firewall? A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. It also boasts a massive advantage over hardware and software firewalls: common sense.

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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

Network World

Gartner is more bullish, predicting that the market will grow at a 36% CAGR between 2020 and 2025 to reach $14.7 firewall as a service, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access) into a single cloud-delivered service. A flexible, cloud-based firewall delivered as a service can protect these edges.

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Top 15 Exploited Vulnerabilities of 2023

SecureWorld News

CVE-2023-27350 (PaperCut MF/NG): Allows a malicious cyber actor to chain an authentication bypass vulnerability with the abuse of built-in scripting functionality to execute code. CVE-2020-1472 (Microsoft Netlogon): Allows privilege escalation.

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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Network World

It can also encompass a constantly growing laundry list of additional features such as firewall as a service (FWaaS), browser isolation, sandboxing, data loss prevention (DLP), and web application firewall (WAF). Fortinet acquired the startup Opaq in 2020 as part of its pivot from SD-WAN to SASE.

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Effectively Manage All Endpoints, No Matter Where They Are Located

CIO Business Intelligence

However, employees working outside the corporate firewall and other network protections pose some big security challenges, especially for large enterprises. CIOs and CSOs still have to ensure that employees outside of the corporate firewall can do their work securely. The need for a more permanent solution.

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Death of the VPN: A Security Eulogy

SecureWorld News

This is accomplished using a three-layered approach involving tunneling, authentication and encryption. The final nail in the coffin of VPN came in early 2020. Zero Trust, as implied by the name, not only requires robust authentication but also segments users with granular access to specific apps.

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The Power of Depth of Defense for Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

Real-life examples of depth of defense Network Perimeter: Organizations often deploy firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and network monitoring tools at the network perimeter to prevent unauthorized access. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): Implementing 2FA adds an extra layer of authentication beyond traditional usernames and passwords.