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The Web Application Firewall Market Is Ripe For Disruption

Forrester IT

Let’s face it: Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) rarely excite the security imagination. WAFs have been ubiquitous for at least 15 years and play an important role in detecting and blocking “OWASP Top 10” application level attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

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FW4: The Fourth Generation Of Firewalls

Forrester IT

Not to be morbid, but the COVID-19 pandemic has come at a perilous time for the enterprise firewall vendors that rely heavily on selling big iron (and that’s most of them). The user exodus, coupled with the fact that most enterprise applications graduated to the cloud years ago, has […].

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Improve supply chain security with intelligence

CTOvision

Read Tyler Logtenberg explain how companies can improve their supply chain security through threat intelligence from surface, deep and dark web on Security Intelligence : It would be comforting if the only cyber-risks organizations had to worry about were the ones that smacked up against their firewall and endpoint security solutions.

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7 Critical Firewall Capabilities to Prevent Cyberattacks

CTOvision

Read Russ Schafer list seven critical firewall capabilities to prevent cyber attacks on Dark Reading : Firewall technology used to be simple and straightforward. You programmed it with predefined security policies set by your organization.

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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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Cisco security warnings include firewall holes, Nexus software weaknesses

Network World

Cisco has issued another batch of security warnings that include problems in its Firepower firewall (FXOS), Unified Computing System (UCS) software and Nexus switch operating system (NX-OS). Network pros react to new Cisco certification curriculum.

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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. Security requires an adaptive model that understands the fluidity and dynamism of the modern digital landscape.

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