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Vendor management and looking beyond SMB firewalls, anti-virus, and data backups

IT Toolbox

I just had lunch with a long-time business colleague who specializes in IT consulting and network systems integration for small and medium-sized businesses. From servers to PBXs and everything in between, his company sells, installs, and manages entire network environments for its customers.

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2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls

Tech Republic Data Center

Fortinet ranked #1 in the Enterprise Data Center, Distributed Enterprise, and SMB use cases as of 30 November 2021 The January 2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities report for Network Firewalls includes network firewall evaluations for various use cases.

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What to do about WannaCry if you’re infected or if you’re not

Network World

Consider closing firewall port 139, 445 or both because these are the ports SMB uses. If you can’t do that because you haven’t tested whether the patch will affect your software build, disable Server Message Block 1 (SMB1) network file sharing. That’s where the flaw is that it attacks.

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5 open source alternatives for routing/firewall

Network World

Economical and flexible Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These products can be downloaded and deployed on your own hardware, on a virtual platform, or in the cloud.

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SMBs continue to be a target of cybercriminals

Network World

Because they don’t see themselves as targets, small-to-midsize businesses (SMB) have for a long time believed that their security programs are good enough. They have a firewall, antivirus, maybe they even use two-factor authentication. The mistake is believing that this is enough because they have nothing of value to an attacker.

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Review: 5 open source alternatives for routers/firewalls

Network World

Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. Plus, they are combined with security functionality, starting with a basic firewall and possibly including antivirus, antispam and Web filtering.

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

Network World

High-risk legacy protocols and services, such as Server Message Block (SMB), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Telnet, Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS), and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), frequently make up more than 20% of internal East-West network connections. Our unique agentless architecture protects headless machines.

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