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

Network World

This led to the development of early antivirus software and firewalls, which were designed to protect computers from malicious software and unauthorized access. This philosophy demands rigorous and continuous authentication and authorization procedures before granting access to any resources or systems.

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Ask.com serves as a conduit for malware - again

Network World

In both cases attackers managed to infiltrate the Ask.com updater infrastructure to the point that they used legitimate Ask signing certificates to authenticate malware that was masquerading as software updates.

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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

Network World

It cited the MGM Resorts data breach, the Microsoft email hack, and the FBot malware targeting web servers, cloud services, and software-as-a-service, which achieves persistency and propagates on AWS via AWS IAM (identity and access management) users as three examples of how the keys could be abused.

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What is NAC and why is it important for network security?

Network World

As knowledge workers became increasingly mobile, and as BYOD initiatives spread across organizations, NAC solutions evolved to not only authenticate users, but also to manage endpoints and enforce policies. NAC solutions will, for instance, make sure that the endpoint has up-to-date antivirus and anti-malware protections.

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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner. In the past few months, infostealer malware has gained ground.

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Experts at RSA give their best cybersecurity advice

Network World

But even the best security software is useless if users and businesses aren’t taking the right steps to protect themselves. Joe Stewart, director of malware research at Dell SecureWorks He advises everyone to set up two-factor authentication to protect their internet accounts, especially email.

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The 5 S’s of cyber resilience: How to rethink enterprise data security and management

CIO Business Intelligence

Security: Protecting your backups is the last line of defense As ransomware and malware evolve, attackers increasingly target backup systems traditionally considered the last line of defense. After malware has encrypted critical data, no one wants to discover that recoverable backups dont exist.