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Ransomware, zero-day exploits keep network security pros scrambling

Network World

The networks that enable today’s hyper-distributed enterprises face persistent and emerging security challenges. By comparison, the firm saw data theft in only about 40% of cases in a mid-2021 analysis. So now, one of our hot topics is how to detect such fraud – our API security team is all over it right now,” Anderson said.

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Unbiased third-party testing is critical for network security

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, CIO and CISO teams are tasked with multiple business-critical initiatives like securing and connecting work-from-anywhere employees, moving applications to the edge or the cloud, and securing operational technology (OT) and IT environments. security effectiveness rating.

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Benchmarks without context are meaningless: The pitfalls of data without insight

CIO Business Intelligence

It was a typical conversation with a client when the question came up: “What’s the average security spend for organizations like ours?” Knowing this was coming, I responded, “On average, most organizations spend around 3-6% of their IT budget on security.” But here’s the challenge: Business leaders tend to look for quick comparisons.

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO Business Intelligence

As an infrastructure and security practitioner with nearly 30 years of experience, I’ve witnessed periods of rapid change in the technology landscape. For decades, organizations have considered networking and security a cost of doing business. Our networking and security methods have been successful.

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Five takeaways from Cisco Live EMEA

Network World

At Cisco Live EMEA, Patel made the comparison to Apple where if one buys all Apple products, they are treated to magical experiences, which prevents one from doing something like using a Samsung phone with an Apple watch. Typically, enforcement is done by deploying firewalls at strategic points in the network.

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Technology Short Take 139

Scott Lowe

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” A while ago I chatted with the folks at Indeni about Cloudrail , a security solution for infrastructure-as-code environments.

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‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli

GeekWire

.” Amazon’s lax internal controls for confidential data: “I learned that Amazon, even though they’re one of the biggest, most sophisticated companies in the world, has very primitive firewalls in place to protect confidential data. Any comparison of the two companies is not based in reality.”

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