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8 questions to ask vendors about Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Network World

The increased deployment of core business applications in the cloud and the shift to remote work brought on by the pandemic have obliterated any notion of the traditional “corporate moat” style of security. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) has emerged as the preferred approach to address today’s security challenges.

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Zero Trust

Phil Windley

My new book Learning Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media covers many of the topics in this post such as multi-factor authentication, authorization and access control, and identity policy development in depth. User Authentication: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Requiring users to provide multiple forms of verification (e.g.,

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Safeguarding your digital ecosystem: effective strategies to detect and mitigate API abuse

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s interconnected digital landscape, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are instrumental in ensuring seamless communication between software systems. WAAPs inspect incoming API requests, filtering out potentially harmful traffic based on predefined security rules to identify applications attacks (e.g. SQLi and RCE).

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Steps to Take If Your WordPress Site Is Hacked

SecureWorld News

Scan for malware Numerous WordPress breaches involve backdoors, enabling attackers to bypass authentication and quietly carry out malicious activities. Implement multi-factor authentication Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all user accounts on your WordPress site.

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'Citrix Bleed' Vulnerability Raises Concerns as Exploits Continue

SecureWorld News

Exploiting this flaw allows threat actors to hijack legitimate user sessions, bypassing authentication protocols such as passwords and multi-factor authentication. Mandiant emphasized the need for organizations to rely on web application firewalls (WAF) and network appliances recording HTTP/S requests for detection.

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Modern Network Security: How Technology and Smart Practices are Reducing Risk

CIO Business Intelligence

With the shift to hybrid work, data, applications, intellectual property, and personal information is no longer stashed safely behind a corporate firewall. In this webcast, we’ll explore: The current trending threats facing networks, like authentication vulnerabilities, malware, phishing, and denial of service attacks.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

At the same time, gaming systems have become built around large player databases requiring layers of network and application security to prevent data breaches or loss. What’s on your data dashboard as the most important metrics?