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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. Recent critical vulnerabilities in VPNs and firewalls have exposed the risks associated with perimeter-based security measures. Access is authorized based on business policies informed by identity and context.

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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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Starting zero trust without spending a dime

Network World

NIST, other government agencies, and industry bodies point towards the policy enforcement point (PEP) as the gateway device or service that performs this separation, gating access based on different authentication and authorization requirements, depending on the sensitivity of the resource.

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The changing face of cybersecurity threats in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Using the “same old” low-skill tactics, common tools, and a bit of social engineering, hackers can get around complex security policies such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and identity and access management (IAM) systems. Let’s revisit the most prevalent security threats and see how they’re evolving in 2023.

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$75M ransom payment made – 5 Key ransomware findings

Network World

The use of voice-based social engineering to gain entry into networks is on the rise—a technique made popular by Scattered Spider and the Qakbot threat group. The number of extorted companies based on analysis of malicious data leak sites grew by 57.8%

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The Biggest Cybersecurity Risk We're Ignoring—And No, It's Not AI

SecureWorld News

This is because the whole paradigm around security training is building technical knowledge; whereas the whole point of successful social engineering is to bypass the logical and rational brain and bait the subconscious and emotions. Others get bombarded with policies they ignore. Cybersecurity training isn't the full solution.

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Proactive cybersecurity: sometimes offence is the best defense

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s important to understand that launching an offensive cybersecurity strategy does not mean abandoning traditional defensive measures such as deploying firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), anti-malware software, patch management, security information and event management (SIEM), and other such tools.

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