Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware. Enterprises can choose an appliance from a single vendor or install hardware-agnostic hyperconvergence software on white-box servers.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

By Bob Gourley 2014 Guidance Software Federal Summit: Cybersecurity | E-Discovery | Enterprise Forensics. The Guidance Software Federal Summit is a thought leadership forum designed exclusively for federal managers and leaders to learn how Government and industry leaders are achieving endpoint visibility across their entire IT ecosystems.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Limitations of traditional security measures While organizations typically rely on email filters, firewalls, and antivirus software, these solutions often fall short against AI-powered phishing attacks. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) : Enforce robust MFA protocols to add an extra layer of security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

With the shift to hybrid work, data, applications, intellectual property, and personal information is no longer stashed safely behind a corporate firewall. In this webcast, we’ll explore: The current trending threats facing networks, like authentication vulnerabilities, malware, phishing, and denial of service attacks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Using the “same old” low-skill tactics, common tools, and a bit of social engineering, hackers can get around complex security policies such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and identity and access management (IAM) systems. Let’s revisit the most prevalent security threats and see how they’re evolving in 2023.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

NIST, other government agencies, and industry bodies point towards the policy enforcement point (PEP) as the gateway device or service that performs this separation, gating access based on different authentication and authorization requirements, depending on the sensitivity of the resource.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Strategies for protecting oil and gas infrastructure Regular updates and patching: Outdated software and hardware are the most common entry points for cyberattacks. Regularly updating and patching systems, including antivirus software, firewalls, and SCADA networks, can mitigate this risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

One area that merits attention is software-defined WAN or SD-WAN. Also, more organizations are using cloud and hybrid environments, which cannot be secured by the usual firewalls and other conventional security tools. Cyber threats have become more sophisticated and aggressive, but there are still reasons to be hopeful.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

Security is now considered one of the great strengths of both cloud infrastructure and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. Platform, software and service providers pledge to maintain security at the physical infrastructure and network level, but none will shoulder the burden of protecting customer workloads and data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

In today’s interconnected digital landscape, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are instrumental in ensuring seamless communication between software systems. Finding your API solution As APIs continue to play a vital role in modern software development, the risk of API abuse grows exponentially.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

Digital transformation leverages software to re-invent the entire LBGUPS (Learn, Buy, Get, Use, Pay & Support) business value chain. Let’s look at each: Software-defined wide area networking. Firewall-as-a-service : Many legacy firewalls are ineffective against modern threats on a distributed network.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The platform works by gathering telemetry and user state data from Juniper’s routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and applications to offer actionable insights and automated workflows for proactive issue detection and resolution, Juniper says. Network Management Software, Networking, Wi-Fi

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

At a minimum, these systems should be firewalled off from public addressing, Ellis stresses. Without strong authentication, authorization, and encryption, APIs can become additional entry points for attackers." Secure Access : Use strong passwords, enable multifactor authentication (MFA), and disable default credentials.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2023

APIs enable organizations to bring innovative applications and functionality to customers at an increasingly fast pace and also serve as applications for provisioning cloud platforms, hardware, and software, acting as service gateways to enable indirect and direct cloud services. Web Application Firewalls (WAF): Protect APIs from attacks.

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Network World

JUNE 13, 2024

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. Securely back up all data regularly and keep software updated. Stop data loss and malware delivery by controlling and monitoring SaaS application usage.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

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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Network World

AUGUST 12, 2024

We worried about potential threats embedded in encrypted traffic, and performance was slow because traffic had to be routed through firewalls to the data center before users could access the resources they needed. They were each provided with the same VPN access that Sanmina employees were provided. This was an untenable solution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

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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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

It can also encompass a constantly growing laundry list of additional features such as firewall as a service (FWaaS), browser isolation, sandboxing, data loss prevention (DLP), and web application firewall (WAF). As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN. IDC splits the difference between SASE and SSE.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Like most organizations, Accenture has standard defenses to detect and prevent largely autonomous attacks: endpoint protection, firewalls, email filtering, multi-factor authentication, patching and configuration management, and URL blocking. These are created within software configurations that off-the-shelf products don’t find.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Cybersecurity requirements now encompass: Network segmentation: Implementation of VLANs and firewalls at critical system boundaries System hardening: Advanced Windows configuration, secure user authentication, and role-based access control Asset management: Maintaining up-to-date Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) and asset registers.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 30, 2019

Antivirus software can help but it’s not invincible Image Credit: Gabriel Salvadó. Almost every person with the CIO job currently has some form of antivirus software deployed within their company. What’s The Value Of Antivirus Software? Of these firms, 65% – 70% are running antivirus software.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

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. This can be done by configuring the internal Firewall on Internet facing application servers.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Automation, security, and transparency are the three most important features you can associate with board portal software. What is board portal software? Board software or board management software is a virtual workspace where board members can seamlessly share, access, and store board documents. Lets find out!

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Defending against DDoS attacks has long depended on traditional measures like firewalls and rate limiting. The attackers place themselves between the user and the legitimate website, intercepting session data and bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) by relaying the authentication process in real time.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 20, 2021

Someone trying to save a few bucks on a software license triggered a Ryuk ransomware attack against a life sciences research institute. So, it's not too surprising that a student short on cash would look for a way to avoid paying for expensive software. It's great when Windows Defender does its job. This time it worked.

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Fountainhead

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Each time Margo takes on a new client, they issue her firm a corporate laptop, usually equipped with VPN software and a 2-factor security app with a physical fob. She shares these folders with her co-workers as well as client contacts within each company (and who are behind each clients firewall) as interactive project-based workspaces.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2022

However, employees working outside the corporate firewall and other network protections pose some big security challenges, especially for large enterprises. CIOs and CSOs still have to ensure that employees outside of the corporate firewall can do their work securely. The need for a more permanent solution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2022

That also means offering common ways to authenticate, run reports, and check for threats. For example, any customers deploying Symantec Endpoint Security Complete can use the same agent to redirect traffic to our Symantec Enterprise Cloud when they’re exposed on the internet and not behind a proxy or firewall.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

One of the best and first things that you should do to ensure information security in your business is to install a firewall. A firewall acts as the first line of defense and will alert you of intrusions. The FCC recommends that all small businesses have some sort of firewall that will set a barrier between crucial data and attackers.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 7, 2024

The setup begins with deploying the necessary hardware and software. This includes firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and monitoring tools. Experts from companies such as Palo Alto Networks, RSA, and others bring their specialized skills and tools to the table, forming a coalition dedicated to safeguarding the event.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 7, 2024

Implement software and hardware limits to the manipulation of physical processes, limiting the impact of a successful compromise. Mandate multifactor authentication for privileged users. Publish Software Bills of Materials (SBOM). Take inventory and determine the end-of-life status of all HMIs [CPG 1.A].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2024

Firewall capability for AI security: Enhance security measures by providing firewall capabilities to safeguard against potential AI-related vulnerabilities. One common scenario is you own a software or platform capability that solves a business problem, and suddenly, the vendor says, ‘Hey, we now do AI.’ Embrace AI—it’s here!

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2024

Authentication. For overall business application and processes, you could look to Software AG’s webMethods or Oracle’s WebLogic Application Server or other approaches from TIBCO, IBM, Open Text and others. There’s the complexity of security in the organization. Password strategies. Incident response plans. Training and awareness.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The measures to ensure product and solution security cover the hardware, software, and services involved in production. Application security focuses on the protection of software apps. Secure coding, encryption, enhanced authentication, and other practices fall into this category.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 28, 2023

My new book Learning Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media covers many of the topics in this post such as multi-factor authentication, authorization and access control, and identity policy development in depth. User Authentication: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Requiring users to provide multiple forms of verification (e.g.,

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