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7 Critical Firewall Capabilities to Prevent Cyberattacks

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Read Russ Schafer list seven critical firewall capabilities to prevent cyber attacks on Dark Reading : Firewall technology used to be simple and straightforward. You programmed it with predefined security policies set by your organization.

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Palo Alto Networks: Proactively Averting Cyber Attacks

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Remember that attackers can use programs that masquerade as legitimate applications, and continue to watch for suspicious behavior, even from legitimate, trusted applications. Products from Palo Alto Networks can give you that platform approach. Coolpad has a backdoor in Android devices, says Palo Alto Networks (androidcommunity.com).

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Palo Alto Networks Uses Neural Networks to Attack Insider Threat

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Interestingly enough, Palo Alto Networks is working on ways to help its customers leverage the high fidelity data coming out of its Enterprise Security Platform. A SOM is a type of artificial neural network that uses unsupervised learning to produce a discretized representation of its input.

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PCI Compliance and Network Segmentation

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - PCI Compliance and Network Segmentation - Information Technology Blog. The first step to determining the scope of your Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance is segmenting your data networks. What You Should Know About PCI DSS Network Segmentation.

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IDG Contributor Network: When SD-WAN is more than SD-WAN

Network World

The technology is merging with other networking technologies, ultimately becoming a feature of a much larger bundle. Just consider some of the activity: Velocloud recently announced its SD-WAN Security Technology Partner Program to integrate with other security vendor’s products. Predominantly, we’re seeing security and SD-WANs merge.

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Zero Trust

Phil Windley

Past practices included techniques like virtual private networks (VPNs) that tried to emulate the idea of an intranet where trusted computers and people were protected from hackers by a firewall that "kept the bad stuff out." Often the bad actors are hard to tell apart from your employees, partners, and customers.

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Your Enterprise has too many Cyber-ish People

CTOvision

It seems more like a jobs program that moves headcount from one part of the enterprise to the expensive nerdy-side. Jobs like keeping software updated, tracking down holes in the firewalls, waiting for alarms to go off, being fed alerts about out-of-date software: in short lots of controlled firefighting. etc, but really should it be?