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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. A Zero Trust platform ensures applications and data are not visible to the public internet and users are only provided least privilege access, preventing lateral movement and protecting against ransomware attacks.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a human firewall? A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. It also boasts a massive advantage over hardware and software firewalls: common sense.

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NTT Data to offer Palo Alto-based threat detection, remediation service

Network World

Palo Alto Networks is teaming with NTT Data to allow the global IT services company to offer an enterprise security service with continuous threat monitoring, detection and response capabilities. NTT Data’s MXDR service offers 24×7 incident detection and response and AI-driven threat intelligence orchestration and automation, Mehta stated.

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Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros

Network World

As data centers evolve from traditional compute and storage facilities into AI powerhouses, the demand for qualified professionals continues to grow exponentially and salaries are high. The rise of AI, in particular, is dramatically reshaping the technology industry, and data centers are at the epicenter of the changes.

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Cisco adds a firewall, upgrades security

Network World

Security is the name of the game at Cisco’s Partner Summit gathering this week with the rollout of a new firewall and added data-loss prevention (DLP) and passwordless authentication features to its security wares. Available early next year, the 1U 3105 supports 10Gbps throughput, 7Gbps IPSec throughput and 3,000 VPN peers.

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VMware firewall takes aim at defending apps in data center, cloud

Network World

VMware has taken the wraps off a firewall it says protects enterprise applications and data inside data centers or clouds.

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FortiGate admins advised to run a compromise assessment

Network World

Network administrators with Fortinets FortiGate next generation firewall in their IT environments are being warned to thoroughly scrutinize systems for possible compromise, following last weeks dump of stolen configuration and VPN credentials by a threat actor. Patching is not enough, tweeted cybersecurity researcher Florian Roth on Thursday.

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