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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. A Zero Trust platform ensures applications and data are not visible to the public internet and users are only provided least privilege access, preventing lateral movement and protecting against ransomware attacks.

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8 questions to ask vendors about Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Network World

The increased deployment of core business applications in the cloud and the shift to remote work brought on by the pandemic have obliterated any notion of the traditional “corporate moat” style of security. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) has emerged as the preferred approach to address today’s security challenges.

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Fountainhead: The End of the Laptop-Centric World?

Fountainhead

Is this you: You own multiple laptops or desktop computers because you have different uses, jobs, clients or applications? To accomplish her work she needs access to each clients intranet as well as a number of their secure, internal applications. Enter the concepts of "Mobile applications" and "Virtual desktops".

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). Defense Daily’s 2014 Open Architecture Summit, … Read more on Defense Daily Network (subscription).

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Nile unwraps NaaS security features for enterprise customers

Network World

The new security features include built-in access control for basic authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and multi-factor authentication (MFA). Entra’s identity service provides user authentication, authorization, and single sign-on (SSO) across multiple applications. NaaS provides a simplified, managed solution.”

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We Need A National Cybersecurity Strategy That Everyone Can Implement

CTOvision

So here’s three things the nation can do to make it less vulnerable to cyber attacks: 1/ Implement 2-Factor Authentication. Basic: Implementing two-factor authentication is the simplest mitigation against credential theft. Basic: Application data stores, email servers and collaboration applications should all have their data encrypted.

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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). It’s much easier to use biometrics or a SmartCard to identify yourself to a system or application. Userids and passwords are almost free.

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