Security Cloud Control: Pioneering the Future of Security Management

Security Cloud Control: Pioneering the Future of Security Management

Organizations face a critical challenge today: attackers are exploiting the weakest links in their networks, such as unsecured users, devices, and workloads. This threat landscape is complicated by the shift from traditional data centers to a distributed environment, where protecting dispersed data across multiple touchpoints becomes complex. To address these threats, many organizations resort to using multiple security tools, leading to siloed teams, tech stacks, and management systems that hinder effective security. This fragmented approach…

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How Your Business Can Benefit from a Network Security Policy | TechRepublic

How Your Business Can Benefit from a Network Security Policy | TechRepublic

With the increasing complexity of cyberthreats and data breaches, companies must deploy robust measures to protect their networks. This is why a network security policy must be in place to create security guidelines for devices that transport and store company data. An introduction to network security Every company’s network is made up of devices that transmit and store information. This can include internal and external systems, either company-owned or leased. To protect company data and…

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Living off the land in a victim’s network

Living off the land in a victim’s network

In January of this year, the directors of the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) appeared before a committee on Capitol Hill. During their testimonies, they attested to the present and growing cyber threat that Chinese state-sponsored cyber attackers, such as Volt Typhoon, pose to U.S. critical national infrastructure (CNI) — primarily communications, energy, transportation systems and water and wastewater systems sectors.  The…

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Top 5 Cloud Trends U.K. Businesses Should Watch in 2024

Top 5 Cloud Trends U.K. Businesses Should Watch in 2024

As business data demands increase, cloud providers and their customers find themselves having to consider the implications of increasing storage costs, security risks and environmental footprint. Such impacts are of particular importance to U.K. organisations, as it is the largest cloud market in Europe. TechRepublic spoke to U.K. cloud experts to identify the top five industry trends emerging from the country’s burgeoning reliance on the fundamental IT infrastructure. These cloud trends are: Premiumisation of cloud packages….

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Why You Need a Personal VPN | McAfee Blog

Why You Need a Personal VPN | McAfee Blog

It used to be the case that only businesses used virtual private networks (VPNs) to connect securely to the internet and keep their private data safe. But these days, with the rapid growth of online threats and privacy concerns, even casual internet users should seriously consider using a VPN. Nearly 30% of people now use VPNs for personal reasons, and that number is only growing as more people learn about how VPNs offer an effective…

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10 Hot AI Cybersecurity Tools At RSAC 2024

10 Hot AI Cybersecurity Tools At RSAC 2024

Vendors including Palo Alto Networks, Trellix and Proofpoint debuted new AI-powered security tools and capabilities this week during the conference. Without a doubt, this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco has lived up to expectations when it comes to the focus on generative AI. RSAC 2024 has seen countless vendors unveil new security tools and capabilities leveraging large language model technology, and for the second year in a row, GenAI has been ubiquitous in conversations…

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20 Coolest Cybersecurity Products At RSAC 2024

20 Coolest Cybersecurity Products At RSAC 2024

At RSA Conference 2024 this week, vendors are showcasing new products in categories including SASE, security operations and application security — with many touting newly released, GenAI-powered cybersecurity capabilities. Big RSAC Product Announcements Even as the cybersecurity industry continues to maintain its rapid growth pace — leading many vendors to roll out product announcements throughout the year — major makers of cybersecurity tools also continue to target the launch of new products and capabilities at…

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New Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO) API

New Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO) API

Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO) provides a powerful REST API to automate and simplify security management tasks. You can find CDO API Documentation on DevNet. And tune in to a live discussion on April 24th on YouTube or LinkedIn to learn about how to get started, and integrations of CDO with Ansible and Terraform. Key features include: Manage devices, services, and device managers Deploy changes to devices at scale Manage objects (coming soon) Perform complex searches (coming…

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Rethinking network and security monitoring in the age of TLS 1.3

Rethinking network and security monitoring in the age of TLS 1.3

The adoption of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 creates a watershed moment for cybersecurity, revolutionizing encryption and data protection standards. TLS has been widely used to secure data end-to-end for many decades. Though this latest version significantly enhances the security of the TLS protocol, it also severely limits the decryption of those data streams for cybersecurity and network monitoring purposes. This results in our current forms of network and security monitoring used with previous…

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Identify and Investigate Uncommon DNS Traffic

Identify and Investigate Uncommon DNS Traffic

Programmatically filter uncommon DNS Requests with Cisco Umbrella APIs We use the Internet in our everyday lives to get work done, manage our lives, and even socialize. We take this Internet usage for granted these days, but the reality is that we are communicating more than ever on a global scale, instantaneously, and often, with folks we’ve never met in-person or with third-party services we don’t fully understand. From a cybersecurity perspective, this looks like…

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