SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As a regular attendee of security conferences and contributor to security books, it's evident to me that the field remains a hot topic. Whether applied to firewall rules or code execution permissions, Default Permit operates on the flawed assumption that allowing everything except known threats is a sound strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

She is also mindful of security: “Is it too adventurous to book the ticket through an unfamiliar travel agency, or should I book through the airline itself?” is asking all merchants to have an “automated” technical solution for their public-facing web applications—meaning a web-based application firewall (WAF) is now a must.

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Airlines Travel Security Firewall 52

Phil Windley

AUGUST 28, 2023

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. Zero Trust is a security framework that is better attuned to the modern era of sophisticated threats and interconnected systems.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

Grimes has worked in the cybersecurity industry for more than 30 years, authoring 13 books and more than 1,300 articles. Firewalls and VPNs can't hurt but won't offer as much as an EDR ( Endpoint Detection and Response) or intrusion detection will. His job history includes major companies such as Microsoft, McAfee, and Foundstone.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Secure Configurations for Network Devices such as Firewalls, Routers, and Switches. href="[link] Control 10: Secure Configurations for Network Devices such as Firewalls, Routers, and Switches. Security Skills Assessment and Appropriate Training to Fill Gaps. Limitation and Control of Network Ports, Protocols, and Services.

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CTOvision

JUNE 12, 2014

Wait, that might be vulnerable to a comic book dictionary attack (bonus points for Superman fans), so let’s add some numbers and special characters: M4xyZ!ptL#K. We’re not done yet, though – badges for physical access, PKI, USB keys, SmartCards, soft certs, biometrics, Network Access Control, firewalls, IPS/IDS, SIEM … I could go on and on.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

It effortlessly integrates with any area of the IT infrastructure, be it provisioning virtual machines (VMs) or creating firewall rules. This sponsored post is part of a series designed to highlight recently published Packt books about leading technologies and software applications.

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Tools Applications Network Firewall 94

Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). That might mean continuous orchestration between specific apps and networking, storage, firewalls, IaaS, DBs and more. But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining. sophisticated app landscapes, just dropping them onto a public IaaS. cloud only helps to a point.

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Galido

JULY 27, 2018

Standard security solutions like firewalls and antiviruses aren’t sufficient enough to protect you. P2P or peer to peer file sharing is one way for people to get access to the books, films, and games they’re looking for without going to the main vendors and buying them directly.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The problem is that threat actors are able to get through the castle gates (firewalls) and once in, are able to evade the castle guards (IPS). The book provides a really good background on the problem and talks about all the new concepts used in Microsegmentation. Microsegmentation will fix this. It enables Internet at Scale.

Network 150

Network Security Vmware Virtualization 150

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Insightful and informative posts like this go a long way, in my book, to convincing people why DevOps is culture more than tooling (vendors often have it the other way around).

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Insightful and informative posts like this go a long way, in my book, to convincing people why DevOps is culture more than tooling (vendors often have it the other way around).

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2020

Robert Rosen, a theoretical biologist writing in his book "Essays on Life Itself," said that there is a difference between complexity and complicatedness. The second concept, entropy, was described by Charles Shannon in 1948. It, too, is quite complicated, but for our purposes we'll just say that entropy is a measure of randomness.

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Network Meeting .Net Enterprise 52

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Insightful and informative posts like this go a long way, in my book, to convincing people why DevOps is culture more than tooling (vendors often have it the other way around).

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

DECEMBER 13, 2007

from previous post about my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. Here are my thoughts after reading chapter 1 of the book " Mashup Corporations. This book illustrates its arguments with the help of a tale of a fictitious company Vorpal going through the process of implementing SOA.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

I saw two articles talking about his experience: one on redirecting NSX firewall logs into SmartLog and a second one ranting on how the NSX DFW isn’t quite enterprise ready. I downloaded a few Azure books, since public cloud is a focus of mine this year. Marco van Baggum describes his experience in working with NSX 6.2.3

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Frank Denneman and his partner in crime Niels Hagoort have launched a new book effort aimed at providing a deep-dive into host resources in vSphere 6.5 What’s that?

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

APRIL 4, 2009

Ifyour collaboration strategy doesn't include people outside your entity/firewall/premises, you're missing the point. Albert-László Barabási 's book "Linked." (just went on the Kindle wish list). The "50-foot rule" about physical proximity needed for effective collaboration, based in part on research by MIT's Tom Allen.

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Virtualization Social Tools Media 40

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

DECEMBER 17, 2007

from previous post about my commented reading of Andy Mulholland's book: "Mashup Corporations. That is collaborators outside the firewall (to use a technical view) and not on the payroll (well, they could get paid but not with a salary). The End of Business as Usual”].

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SOA Firewall Course Strategy 40

SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2024

There, I served as a QA analyst for firewalls, where my responsibilities included verifying the functionality of one of the first next-generation firewalls (NGFW), at the time referred to as a Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall. This model, initially known as R57, was later launched as the R60 NGFW.

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Firewall Sports Architecture Conference 72

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

Ender’s Game remains a very popular book (yeah, it was expanded into a novel) and as I said later made into a movie. No, no firewall, okay, there was a firewall that was not really great. Rossi: This is where I look back at it is like the defensive teams are getting better. We've been doing this for 20 years.

Banking 40

Banking Tools Network Security 40

Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Today, the service provider houses over 1,425 virtual servers running on 70 industrystandard Egenera servers, 370 terabytes of storage and 1,250 virtualized firewalls. I've spent lots of time at early stage companies, as well as Sun Microsystems, Cassatt, Egenera, EMC. Find me at oestreichk at gee mail dot com.

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CTOvision

JUNE 11, 2016

As you do, here are a few sessions to keep in mind: First I would appreciate it if you all come by the Verisign Security booth (number 119) and pick up a copy of my book, The Cyber Threat. You will get much more value from the event if you plan out the sessions you will visit and the vendors you will drop in on.

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Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

N Apps manipulating government data, e.g., where laws require direct data oversight Many government databases are required to be maintained within government facilities behind government firewalls. I've spent lots of time at early stage companies, as well as Sun Microsystems, Cassatt, Egenera, EMC.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 22, 2023

Adam Shostack has a new book, Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars. Which is exactly what my guest has done in his new book. And Adam’s back with a new book called Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars. And so that's why they're the basis of the book.

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Engineering Security Microsoft Film 40

Kitaboo

APRIL 22, 2021

Cyberattack susceptibility – Traditional file-sharing tools that require users to bypass firewalls before they download or upload files are no longer secure. Why should you continue printing books that offer information on static printed pages? Digital devices allow users to carry thousands of documents and books on the go.

Security 78

Security Storage Education Software 78

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

JANUARY 9, 2007

Enterprise 2.0 Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « Geek Reading, Dec. 2006 | Main | Office 2007 -- In Production Use » January 09, 2007 The Poor Mans Groove?

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Applications Microsoft Firewall Enterprise 40

ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

So after elevating a previous to it, we could conduct a more extensive recon and on the Jupyter Notebook environment So after conducting more thorough recon on the Jupyter Notebook environment, we found out that the Jupyter Notebook had some local firewall rules restricting network access. One prevented them from access IMDS.

Firewall 52

Firewall Virtualization Authentication Linux 52

Fountainhead

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

She shares these folders with her co-workers as well as client contacts within each company (and who are behind each clients firewall) as interactive project-based workspaces. In these cases, each of Margos clients provides a shared (or dedicated) desktop OS behind their firewall. Act II: The (Troubling) Reality.

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Data Center Virtualization Applications Firewall 246

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Then Facebook released Llama 2, free for most enterprise customers followed by Anthropic’s Claude 2, which came out with a context window of 200,000 tokens — enough for users to cut-and-paste the equivalent of a 600-page book right into a prompt — leaving GPT-4’s 32,000 tokens in the dust. model can handle up to 10 million tokens.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am. Like now I'm a security expert, he has to know all that on premise stuff, you know, data centers, firewalls, etc, etc. It’s 3am and the call comes in. EDR is SDRs for every solution you can think of, and now we're moving.

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Cloud Government Data Security 40

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

He also shares some tools, books, and website resources that you can use to get started hacking cars yourself. Vamosi: That familiar beep beep as you walk away through a parking lot or garage is enough assurance from most that our car is both locked and safe in my first book, when gadgets betray us. It's a very big book.

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Automotive Operating Systems System Tools 52

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Oh, and if you’re looking for a good book on vRealize Operations, look no further.). However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Raymond, from his 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET.

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Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Raymond, from his 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET.

Open Source 52

Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2024

Other high-compliance industries like law and finance can take a page from healthcare’s book by preparing their data privately, at scale, on commodity hardware, using other models to query it. Since this cannot be achieved by simply applying LLM or RAG LLM solutions, it starts with a healthcare-specific data pre-processing pipeline.

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Healthcare Applications Guidelines Artificial Intelligence 94