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NACL best practices: How to combine security groups with network ACLs effectively

Like all modern cloud providers, Amazon adopts the shared responsibility model for cloud security. Amazon guarantees secure infrastructure for Amazon Web Services, while AWS users are responsible for maintaining secure configurations. That requires using multiple AWS services and tools to manage traffic.

Host-based firewalls vs. network-based firewalls for network security?

Before your organization can move business applications to the cloud, it must deploy network security solutions that can reliably block cybercrime and malware. Firewalls are essential cybersecurity tools that protect network traffic against threat actors. There are many different types of firewalls available, but put the same basic principles in action.

The Hidden Danger - Understanding and Defending Against Insider Threats

Cyber threats do not always come from outside an organization. Insiders, including current and former employees, contractors and other business partners with authorized access to your network, systems or data can pose significant risk, damage your reputation or even cause financial losses and business disruption. Insider threat incidents are on the rise and organizations affected by them spend on average $15.4 million on mitigation efforts.

Traditional WAN vs. SD-WAN: Everything You Need to Know

The corporate WAN connects an organization’s distributed branch locations, data center, cloud-based infrastructure, and remote workers. The WAN needs to offer high-performance and reliable network connectivity to ensure all users and applications can communicate effectively. As the WAN expand to include SaaS applications and cloud data centers, managing this environment becomes more challenging.

How do you Monitor and Manage a Network Without Borders?

There are only two options for managing a global multi-cloud network: either by using a combination of inference, hope, and intuition or with mathematical certainty. When conducting 5 million financial transactions daily, it’s essential to operate with certainty, regardless of your network’s size or geographical distribution. Auditors don’t accept inferences; they demand certainty when determining compliance, and a poor audit can be disastrous for the business.

Top Imperva WAF Alternatives in 2023

Imperva WAF is a comprehensive security tool for web applications and APIs, which monitors and filters both incoming and outgoing traffic while also blocking potential attacks. Imperva is utilized by medium to large enterprises to prevent potential security breaches. Through its hybrid web security testing approach, the WAF ensures a zero false-positive SLA for all clients.

"Don't be a "Holdover": Is it time for a Next Generation Firewall?

There is an entertaining commercial running on television that features the “Holdover” family. This family is happily “set in their ways” and unwilling to change with the times. They still embrace wood paneling, TV antennas, newspapers, magazines, VHS tapes, corded landline rotary phones, and the like while being averse to any changes that might make their life better.

How to Identify and Strengthen Weak SSL

Your website or application must be set up within communications networks in order to be accessible to users. Each connection point to an external environment is a possible attack vector that makes up your attack surface. In order to encrypt traffic between your site and your users, you can set your system up with an SSL certificate that uses SSL/TLS protocols to secure traffic.

The New Network Dictionary: AvidThink Explains SASE, SD-WAN, SSE, ZTNA, MCN, and NaaS

The enterprise networking and security market has seen no end to terms and acronyms. SASE, of course, is chief among them, but let us not forget SD-WAN, SSE, ZTNA, and Multi-Cloud Networking (MCN). Then we get into specific capabilities like CASB, DLP, SWG, RBI, FWaaS, and micro-segmentation. This alphabet soup of jargon can confuse even the most diligent and capable CISOs and CIOs, especially when vendors continually redefine and reclassify each category to fit their needs.