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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. Recent critical vulnerabilities in VPNs and firewalls have exposed the risks associated with perimeter-based security measures. In today’s digital age, cybersecurity is no longer an option but a necessity.

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Spy vs spy: Security agencies help secure the network edge

Network World

Out-of-the-box, products should be secure with additional security features such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), logging, and single sign-on (SSO) available at no extra cost. That may be true for firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways, but not for OT systems, she continued. They are not the edge; they are the core of operations.

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Fortinet tightens integration of enterprise security, networking controls

Network World

How to choose an edge gateway. FortiOS implements Fortinet Security Fabric and includes network security such as firewalling, access control, and authentication in addition to SD-WAN, switching, and wireless services. FortiOS 7.2,

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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

Network World

firewall as a service, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access) into a single cloud-delivered service. SASE also simplifies the authentication process by applying appropriate policies for whatever resources the user seeks, based on the initial sign-in. billion by 2025. This model does not scale.

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How to implement zero trust device security

CIO Business Intelligence

In a global environment where data is at increased risk from bad actors with access to sophisticated technology, traditional perimeter-centric safeguards, such as firewalls and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), don’t stand up to modern threats from outside the perimeter. In fact, internal networks no longer offer implicit trust either.

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How to minimize remote access cyber security threats in 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

These companies heavily rely on remote access services, which can be a significant attack vector due to insecure servers, inadequate security protocols, cloud misconfigurations, exposure of security infrastructure (such as routers and firewalls), and more. Change your vulnerability mindset to identify legacy vulnerability management systems.

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Data-Aware Security: How to Take a 360 View of Cloud Security

CIO Business Intelligence

That requires a disciplined strategy for classifying and tagging data, after which protections such as encryption, multifactor authentication, and identity and access management controls can be applied that are appropriate to data sensitivity levels. But those obstacles have also given rise to new innovations like Security Service Edge.

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