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What is a firewall?

Network World

Network-based firewalls have become almost ubiquitous across US enterprises for their proven defense against an ever-increasing array of threats. A recent study by network testing firm NSS Labs found that up to 80% of US large businesses run a next-generation firewall. What is a firewall? billion by 2020. billion by 2020.

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What is microsegmentation? How getting granular improves network security

Network World

Microsegmentation vs. VLANs, firewalls and ACLs. Companies have relied on firewalls , virtual local area networks (VLAN) and access control lists (ACL) for network segmentation for years. With microsegmentation, policies are applied to individual workloads for greater attack resistance. Network segmentation isn’t new.

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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. Authentication Policies: Developing policies for user authentication, device verification, and authorization.

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Radically simplify and expand Zero Trust to cloud workload

CIO Business Intelligence

They often use a combination of: Cloud native security solutions offered by cloud service providers Multiple security tools (firewall, VPN, TLS/SSL inspection, DLP, etc.) This helps customers reduce the operational complexity associated with managing security policies based on IP Addresses, FQDNs, and CIDR blocks.

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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). Microsegmentation brings three important things to the table: 1) support for network virtualization; 2) support for software defined networking; and 3) automation. Microsegmentation for Dummies.

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Balancing Resource Sharing in Multi-tenant Architectures with Single-tenant Services

KineticData

As the system scales, consider leveraging advanced message broker features such as virtual topics or namespace isolation, which can dynamically adapt to increasing tenant counts while maintaining strict separation and high performance.

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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. A holistic solution reduces complexity and benefits the customer by only requiring them to define their policy once. ”. Lock the front door.

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