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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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8 best practices for securing your Mac from hackers in 2023

Tech Republic Security

Best practices for securing your Mac against potential hacks and security vulnerabilities include enabling the firewall, using strong passwords and encryption, and enabling Lockdown Mode. The post 8 best practices for securing your Mac from hackers in 2023 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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NetBox Labs launches tools to combat network configuration drift

Network World

The company was spun out of DNS platform provider NS1 in 2023. NetBox Discovery agents connect with a zero-trust architecture up to a control plane for orchestration that can be in the cloud, or self-hosted, enabling this architecture without needing to reconfigure firewalls or similar.” NS1 was subsequently acquired by IBM.

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Spy vs spy: Security agencies help secure the network edge

Network World

The final document, led by CISA, is an update of a 2023 guide on Secure-by-Design principles for manufacturers with links to resources on implementation. That may be true for firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways, but not for OT systems, she continued.

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Top 15 Exploited Vulnerabilities of 2023

SecureWorld News

A new joint Cybersecurity Advisory, co-authored by leading cybersecurity agencies from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, details the vulnerabilities malicious actors routinely exploited in 2023.

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Kyndryl expands Palo Alto deal to offer managed SASE service

Network World

In 2023, when Kyndryl first said it would integrate Palo Altos security products and services into its own managed security services, the vendors said they would ultimately support SASE, and now they have. A secure web gateway (SWG), cloud-access security broker (CASB) and firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) are part of the Prisma SASE bundle.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. According to Gartner by the end of 2023, 48% of global knowledge workers will be hybrid or fully remote. And NGFWs aren’t done evolving.

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