Firewalls act as the first line of defense, filtering network traffic and blocking malicious activities to safeguard sensitive data and systems. However, setting up a firewall is just the beginning. To ensure it provides optimal protection, it’s essential to implement certain practices for ongoing management. Firewall management involves a series of critical processes to ensure that the firewall operates effectively and provides comprehensive protection against cyberthreats.

In today’s modern networking environment, administrators in many organizations face the challenge of managing authentication for employees, especially when dealing with large staff numbers. Granting access to individual tools can be tedious for both administrators and users, as employees must log in multiple times when switching between tools and remember separate credentials for each.

A firewall rule audit is an essential process for ensuring that your firewall rules are effective and aligned with your security policies. As network environments grow more complex, managing and optimizing firewall rule bases becomes increasingly challenging. Over time, firewall rules can accumulate, leading to bloated, inefficient rule sets that hamper performance, increase security risks, and complicate compliance efforts.

The way we store data has undergone a dramatic shift. From good ol’ floppy disks to today’s cloud storage solutions, advancements in storage have slashed costs and allowed organizations to hold exponentially more data. And we are all taking advantage of this. In fact, data is proliferating at a staggering 25% annually. This presents a double-edged sword. On the one hand, this vast data lake holds immense potential for valuable insights.

In cybersecurity, session sniffing—an attack method where attackers receive and use session data—is a recurring danger. The impacts of session sniffing are evident from numerous high-profile assaults. Let’s discuss some of these important cases that highlight the significance of strong security procedures.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re going over five steps to building a robust cybersecurity mesh. The last few years have seen computing models and network infrastructure become increasingly fragmented and distributed.

The blue screen of death (BSOD) triggered on July 19, 2024, in Windows environments worldwide was caused by a faulty update of the CrowdStrike Falcon Senor’s Endpoint Detection and Response component.

According to IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the global average cost of a data breach is $4.45 million. This includes expenses related to detection, response, and post-breach costs. Moreover, non-compliance can result in regulatory fines. For instance, GDPR violations can lead to fines of up to €20 million or 4% of the company’s annual global turnover, whichever is higher. The challenges don’t stop there.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll discuss quick and easy steps to keep your digital payments secure. Honestly, we think the world’s transition to digital payments was unsettlingly quick. Consumers were thrust into the world of digital payments without sufficient awareness of best practices or knowledge of what is trustworthy when it comes to online transactions.

The GSM Association, which stands for the Global System for Mobile Communications Association and is known more commonly as the GSMA, developed the Security Accreditation Scheme (SAS), a security standard and audit-based certification program that addresses various aspects of eSIM production and management. ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer now supports GSMA compliance for mobile operators and companies within the mobile ecosystem.