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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 a firewall?

Network World

Network-based firewalls have become almost ubiquitous across US enterprises for their proven defense against an ever-increasing array of threats. A recent study by network testing firm NSS Labs found that up to 80% of US large businesses run a next-generation firewall. billion by 2020. billion by 2020. What is a firewall?

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Check Point’s CPX 360 2020 Conference In New Orleans — Secure Your Everything

Forrester IT

Veteran firewall vendor Check Point Software Technologies (hereafter Check Point or CP) held the US edition of its 2020 CPX 360 conference this week in New Orleans. The event gave industry analysts a chance to see what Check Point has been up to.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. It also delivers security services and solutions – including best-in-class firewalls, endpoint detection and response, and security information and event management – needed to address the most stringent cyber resiliency requirements.

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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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Sophos firewall breach: 81,000 devices compromised by Chinese national

Dataconomy

A federal indictment has charged Chinese national Guan Tianfeng with exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Sophos firewalls, affecting approximately 81,000 devices worldwide in 2020. allowed unauthorized access through SQL injection flaws on Sophos firewall devices. critical infrastructure systems.

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US Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm for 2020 Ransomware Attack

Tech Republic

Chinese cybersecurity firm Sichuan Silence has been sanctioned for exploiting a vulnerability in Sophos firewalls used at critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S.

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