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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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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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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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How to Protect WordPress Sites from Exploitation

SecureWorld News

Fundamentally, across the site, strong password policies and multi-factor authentication (MFA) must be enabled. Backing this up with MFA—via a third-party authenticator app—will ensure all login attempts are valid and verified, which will help if multiple users are trying to access a WordPress back-end.

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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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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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