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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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Spy vs spy: Security agencies help secure the network edge

Network World

These guidance documents detail various considerations and strategies for a more secure and resilient network both before and after a compromise. The new documents are in addition to the US guidelines that helps manufacturers build devices that are secure by design.

Security 281
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3 Keys to ensuring your cloud provider offers a sound cyber security strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

In practice, that could mean firewalls protecting the cloud perimeter, then identity management tools (authentication, authorization, accounting, or AAA) to ensure only authorized users are allowed in. Zero trust can also apply to other cloud infrastructure, including servers, databases, and applications.)

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API security: key to interoperability or key to an organization?

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies at the start of their API security journey should begin by establishing an inventory of APIs in the environment, including the functionality they perform, languages they use, authentication and data security requirements they have, as well as the primary owners/developers of those APIs.

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Don’t break the bank: Stopping ransomware from getting the best of your business

Network World

In a world full of emerging cyber threats, ransomware—one of the earliest documented forms of cyberattacks—continues to pose a serious threat to organizations of all sizes. The reason is that cyberattacks are getting more sophisticated and firewalls and VPNs were built for a time when most people were working within the confines of an office.

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How to Pick the Right Technology to Enable the Remote Workforce

CIO Business Intelligence

Protecting data and monitoring user behavior used to be relatively simple when everyone was behind the corporate firewall. For example, data within software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications can’t be protected by the corporate virtual private network if users are outside the firewall, so access needs to be governed at the user account level.

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Talking Zero Trust and SASE with CISOs at the Summit

CIO Business Intelligence

The idea of “trust nothing” and “verify everything” has been around for a long time and is even codified in documents such as the NIST 800-27 Special Publication on Zero Trust. But as we have all discovered, the emergence of SaaS and cloud-based workloads and services requires a broader approach to Zero Trust.

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