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Internal Firewalls for Dummies Guide

Tech Republic Security

Organizations can no longer rely on edge firewalls alone to provide network security. Once attackers get past an edge firewall, they can move laterally to high-value assets. This book illustrates how internal firewalls can help your organization secure east-west network traffic and prevent attackers’ lateral movements.

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Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network

CTOvision

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). Since 2000, secure networks have been built by segmenting traffic at the switch port level from server to server, radically limiting east-west traffic. Microsegmentation will fix this.

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New Book: CIO Communication Skills Secrets

The Accidental Successful CIO

New Book: CIO Communication Skills Secrets. It’s very easy to fill your days dealing with issues regarding servers, networks, routers, switches, firewalls, etc. This book has been written in order to show you what you need to be doing in order to get your message out. Isn’t technology a wonderful thing?

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What Business Users Should Do To Mitigate DDoS Threats

CTOvision

We are strong believers in using software defined perimeter approaches to understand who is who and what is what and only allowing authorized actions in your network. We recommend Verisign's DNS Firewall. It provides cloud-based network security based on is built on Verisign's global recursive DNS platform.

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What Local, State, Federal Governments Should Do To Mitigate DDoS Threats

CTOvision

This post provides some of our suggestions on what governments can do in this regard: Legislatures should consider how to encourage network operators to operate in secure ways. One concept would be to grade network providers like healthcare providers are graded and do so in a way that provides the public with results.

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New Book: Critical CIO Management Skills

The Accidental Successful CIO

You won’t be stringing network cables or updating firewall parameters. This book is going to provide you with the management skills that you are going to need as a CIO in order to be successful. What does it really mean to be a CIO? You sure won’t be writing any software any more. What does a CIO really do?

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