Networks
The latest technologies and best practices to secure local, virtual, cloud, and hybrid networks.
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Security Data Lakes Emerge to Address SIEM Limitations
Every security team craves clear visibility into the endpoints, networks, containers, applications, and other resources of the organization. Tools such as endpoint detection and response (EDR) and extended detection and response (XDR) send an increasing number of alerts to provide that visibility. Unfortunately, the high storage and processing fees for traditional security information and event…
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Top Network Detection & Response (NDR) Solutions
In the race to offer comprehensive cybersecurity solutions, the product known as network detection and response (NDR) is a standalone solution as well as a central component of XDR. Whereas older solutions like antivirus, firewalls, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) have long focused on threats at the network perimeter, the intent of NDR is…
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Zero Trust Speeds Ransomware Response, Illumio-Bishop Fox Test Finds
From mass production of cheap malware to ransomware as a service (RaaS), cyber criminals have industrialized cybercrime, and a new HP Wolf Security report warns that cybercriminals are adapting advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics too. That means hackers will increasingly mimic nation-state threat groups by establishing a long-term presence inside networks to mine highly sensitive…
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How to Secure DNS
The domain name system (DNS) is basically a directory of addresses for the internet. Your browser uses DNS to find the IP for a specific service. For example, when you enter esecurityplanet.com, the browser queries a DNS service to reach the matching servers, but it’s also used when you send an email. It is handy…
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Testing & Evaluating SIEM Systems: A Review of Rapid7 InsightIDR
As companies continue to get breached by the hour, IT and security teams are constantly scrambling their defenses in hopes of eradicating attackers from their networks. The (sort of) good news is that security software and hardware vendors are overflowing with product and service offerings designed to help you. Many of them even promise to…
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How to Improve SD-WAN Security: 3 SD-WAN Best Practices
As the modern workforce becomes increasingly mobile and enterprises branch out and grow, software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) have become a popular choice in the evolution of networking. By applying the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN) to traditional hardware-centric networks, SD-WAN offers enterprises improved flexibility, scalability, performance, and agility for today’s virtual, edge, branch and…
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Top SD-WAN Solutions for Enterprise Security
The development of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has given enterprise administrators flexibility akin to virtualization to manage distributed networks and users globally. Wide area networks have come a long way over the decades, and the introduction of cloud, edge, and virtual workloads only adds to the complexity of managing modern networks. As organizations embrace…
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Getting Started with the Burp Suite: A Pentesting Tutorial
Burp is one of the top-rated security suites for pentesting and ethical hacking. While there are paid professional and enterprise editions, you can install the community edition for free and even use it directly from Kali Linux. The Burp suite is widely used by security professionals to perform advanced scans and various traffic interceptions (e.g.,…
