For decades, enterprises have been depending on many security technologies to defend their network perimeters from variety of cyber attacks. Amongst those technologies, firewalls are a critical layer in perimeter defense. As cyber threat landscape ha

Next Generation Firewalls that businesses use to protect data centers or their network perimeter also offer other important features.

One of the main ones is Ethernet-layer tagging. IT security professionals can tag data and assign relevant security p

BugSec Group and Cynet (www.cynet.com/blog) discovered a severe vulnerability in Next Generation Firewalls. Head of Offensive Security Stas Volfus uncovered the vulnerability, code-named FireStorm, which allows an internal entity or malicious code to

1. Granular Application Control

This refers to the ability to do more than simply block a website or block an application from a website or an application server, but actually understand the application and block the functions within that application.

This article includes:

1. Defining RANSOMWARE as disaster

2. How do avoid getting infected by RANSOMWARE programs

3. How to deal with infection after it happened

4. Structure of backup and fast replication systems

5. Conclusion

It may be a real surprise fo

What is a Next Generation Firewall?

A Next Generation Firewall is a security device, evolution of a stateful firewall, that is application aware, capable to recognize and block applications according to specific patterns and fingerprints peculiar of t

The scary truth

It's one of the biggest fears for an IT department. You have anti-malware agents on your desktops, you have scanning engines for incoming email, you have IPS/IDS systems, and you have even locked the permissions down on your file shar

Before you go all torches and pitchforks on me, hear me out.

I hated writing this article. Truly. My industry is, at its core, a service industry. Overwhelmingly I meet people who go into IT service, support and cybersecurity that have a real desire t

One is not exactly channeling Nostradamus to predict that ransomware attacks will hit Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The importance of a reliable, high integrity backup and ability to recover in an acceptable timeframe is the same for ICS and ente

Our editorial team has handpicked the best of the best articles from LinkedIn which contains the details about the trending Ransomware posts.

1) Ransomware - Practical view, mitigation and prevention tips

Author: Tal Eliyahu

This article tells about the

A big thank you to our  CISO Platform IoT Security Task Force. They did a 6 hour blogathon and came up with very interesting articles for our community.

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