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Maintaining network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls by hand are examples.” “Many things which required manual setup are now automated to make the operations of the IT environment easier,” Vincalek says.
It also delivers security services and solutions – including best-in-class firewalls, endpoint detection and response, and security information and event management – needed to address the most stringent cyber resiliency requirements. We enable them to successfully address these realities head-on.”
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Eliminating traditional security dependencies such as firewalls and VPNs not only reduces the organizations attack surface, but also streamlines operations, cuts infrastructure costs, and improves IT agility. First and most importantly, it removes IT and cybersecurity complexitythe key impediment to enhancing cyber resilience.
Furthermore, when data and workloads reside on-premises, a firewall provides an extra layer of protection. So even when a setting gets misconfigured, there’s a lower chance of exposure outside the firewall. But if something gets misconfigured in the cloud, the risk is much higher.
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Increasing operational efficiency The shift to cloud and hybrid work has left organizations that utilize a perimeter-based security model that leverages firewalls and VPNs with a number of significant costs and challenges related to complexity and operational inefficiency. That means adding more appliances.
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Block access to AI tools Another step that can help, Kuo says: blacklisting AI tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and use firewall rules to prevent employees from using company systems to access. Have a firewall rule to prevent those tools from being accessed by company systems.
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1] It can contain a number of different solutions such as ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access), SWG (Secure Web Gateway), CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker), DLP (Data Leak Protection), FWaaS (Firewall as Service), DEM (Digital Experience Monitoring), etc.
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