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Azure Storage Account Networking: When to Use Firewalls and Service Endpoints

Linux Academy

Recently, when building content for one of my upcoming courses, Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 , I found the Microsoft documentation wasn’t immediately clear on the exclusivity of Storage Account Firewalls, and Service Endpoints. Do I need to use Service Endpoints and the Storage Firewall together?

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Increase customer protection with edge security

CIO Business Intelligence

Latest cybersecurity threats expose flaws in traditional security methods Let’s consider two methods of security for customer data: firewalls and cloud storage. Firewalls are not well suited to protect against modern threats. Think about your data center firewall as a safe inside your home, where highly sensitive data is kept.

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How to Pick the Right Technology to Enable the Remote Workforce

CIO Business Intelligence

Protecting data and monitoring user behavior used to be relatively simple when everyone was behind the corporate firewall. For example, more people now need access to sensitive business data while working from home, on public computers, and via their mobile devices. Lock the front door. You practically need a Ph.D.

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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). A telling example is the Department of Defense and its approach to mobile security. However, the derived credential has less friction.

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Effectively Manage All Endpoints, No Matter Where They Are Located

CIO Business Intelligence

However, employees working outside the corporate firewall and other network protections pose some big security challenges, especially for large enterprises. For example, during the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber insurers had significant concerns about the security risks incurred with so many employees suddenly working from home.

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How can such a small file do so much damage?

Dataconomy

ZIP files are often used to reduce the size of files for easier storage or transmission. For example, a zip bomb file that is only a few kilobytes in size can expand to hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes when decompressed. For example, a recursive zip bomb might contain a zip file containing another zip file, and so on.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. All other needs, for example, authentication, encryption, log management, system configuration, would be treated the same—by using the architectural patterns available.

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