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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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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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Why firewalls and VPNs give you a false sense of security

CIO Business Intelligence

In the ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity threats, traditional pillars like firewalls and VPNs are struggling to keep pace with the evolving challenges. Once hailed as the foundation of security, firewalls and VPNs now find themselves outdated and inadequate. This progress, while groundbreaking, also presents new challenges.

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Threats delivered over encrypted channels continue to rise

Network World

Attackers are using encrypted channels to bypass traditional defenses, concealing malware, phishing campaigns, cryptomining/cryptojacking, and data theft within encrypted traffic. Malware dominates the landscape: Malware remains the most prevalent encrypted threat, representing 86.5% Encrypted threats accounted for 87.2%

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Your attack surface is showing, Unit 42 warns enterprises

Network World

Security risks are often exacerbated by vulnerabilities in internet-accessible administrative login pages of core networking and security appliances, including routers, firewalls and VPNs, Unit 42 stated. Perhaps not surprisingly, Internet-facing resources are targeted most often by attackers, according to Unit 42.

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The Future of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

Many organizations today possess a growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that aren’t all known or managed by IT. Not all that long ago, it was common for enterprises to rely on signature-based detection for malware, static firewall rules for network traffic and access control lists (ACLs) to define security policies.

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Eliminating Lateral Threat Movement INSIDE factory, branch, and campus networks

Network World

Furthermore, IoT malware attacks have been on the rise. ThreatLabz reported a 45% increase in IoT malware attacks over the past year, with a 12% increase in payload delivery attempts to IoT devices. The manufacturing sector experienced the highest volume of IoT malware attacks, accounting for 36% of all observed blocks.

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