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Realizing the Internet of Everything

Network World

Welcome to the Internet of Everything. The concept of an Internet of things came along officially in an MIT statement by Kevin Ashton: people have limited time, attention, and accuracy. This see-and-know stuff is important because it illustrates the good and bad about a human-driven Internet and applications. Interested?

Internet 243
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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

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. With a Zero Trust architecture, the internet is the primary transport medium and effectively becomes the new corporate network.

Firewall 396
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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

Operator Panda, which seems to be CrowdStrikes name for the group known as Salt Typhoon, specializes in exploiting internet-facing appliances such as Cisco switches. Simply relying on multi-factor authentication is not enough to prevent complex breaches that rely on social engineering and impersonation to exploit existing relationships.

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6 of the most effective social engineering techniques

Network World

Social engineering is the strongest method of attack against the enterprise’s weakest vulnerability, its people. In 2015, social engineering became the No. These successful social engineering methods often use phishing and malware. Criminal hackers recognize this fact.

Social 247
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The under-the-radar tech revolution that could change how the internet works

GeekWire

You likely haven’t heard about it and what it does, but you’ve certainly heard of the social network built using this protocol: Bluesky. Contrary to X/Twitter and Threads, the AT Protocol and, for instance, Bluesky provides the mechanism for a decentralized open social web. players that you came to love and hate.

Internet 110
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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

Operator Panda, which seems to be CrowdStrikes name for the group known as Salt Typhoon, specializes in exploiting internet-facing appliances such as Cisco switches. Simply relying on multi-factor authentication is not enough to prevent complex breaches that rely on social engineering and impersonation to exploit existing relationships.

Industry 246
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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.

Policies 369