Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) integrate traditional firewall capabilities with additional features such as intrusion prevention, application awareness, and advanced threat detection to provide enhanced protection against modern cyber threats. NGFWs inspect network traffic at the application layer, identify and control applications traversing the network, and include intrusion prevention functionality to detect known and unknown threats in real-time. They also incorporate advanced threat detection techniques like sandboxing and machine learning to identify sophisticated threats.
Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) integrate traditional firewall capabilities with additional features such as intrusion prevention, application awareness, and advanced threat detection to provide enhanced protection against modern cyber threats. NGFWs inspect network traffic at the application layer, identify and control applications traversing the network, and include intrusion prevention functionality to detect known and unknown threats in real-time. They also incorporate advanced threat detection techniques like sandboxing and machine learning to identify sophisticated threats.
Context aware security is a branch of information security that uses situational information like location, time, browser used, and blacklist/whitelist of networks to determine whether to allow or deny access to information. It analyzes factors around an access request to understand the who, what, when, where, and why to make more informed access decisions. Context aware security conducts historical analysis of browsers used and denies requests if they are outside normal user behavior or come from abnormal locations or times.
The six steps of an incident response plan are: 1) preparation through creating security policies and communication strategies, 2) identification of malicious acts by analyzing logs and data, 3) containment to limit damage and prevent escalation, 4) eradication by removing contaminated systems and replacing them, 5) recovery of damaged work and cleaning impacted systems, and 6) analyzing lessons learned including the root cause of the breach.
VPN (Virtual Private Network) allows secure access to business networks and applications from any location by encrypting data transfers over public networks. Some key benefits of VPN for businesses include increased security, allowing employees to securely access business portals remotely, ability to access the business network from different locations, safeguarding user identity, enabling network scalability, preventing throttling of data or bandwidth by internet service providers, and providing access to geo-blocked applications.
What is Conformance Testing Of An Application?Centextech
Conformance testing is a type of non-functional testing used to determine if an application meets an organization's criteria. It assesses development and maintenance procedures, ensures outputs align with standards at each stage, and examines documentation for completeness and relevance. Conformance testing requires test method standards, procedures for testing, qualified personnel, and standard specifications.
The role of an information security manager involves monitoring and controlling all aspects of enterprise computer security. Their responsibilities include assessing risks, minimizing threats, upgrading security systems, ensuring compliance with standards, testing security products and procedures, preparing for disasters and security breaches, documenting technical information, and reporting to users and managers. The information security manager is responsible for detecting and securing weak points in the system.
The document discusses common security threats facing ecommerce businesses, including malware attacks, backdoors, ransomware, credit card fraud, DDoS attacks, data scraping, SQL injections, and social engineering. As the ecommerce sector has grown in recent years, cyberattacks against ecommerce companies have also increased. The top security threats are outlined for ecommerce businesses to be aware of.
A comprehensive IT security audit checks vulnerabilities in a business's current IT environment by evaluating key elements like ethical hacking, penetration testing, network scanning, firewall configurations, password policies, and physical security. The audit ensures proper active directory setup, backup and disaster recovery, antivirus software, server patching, device security, software licensing, internal network configurations, server and workstation accessibility, remote access and mobile usage policies, and file sharing policies are in place.
How To Protect Mobile Apps and APIs from AttackersCentextech
Mobile apps and APIs are common targets for cyberattacks from threat actors seeking to access operational or personal user data without authorization or interrupt business services. To protect mobile apps and APIs, organizations should prevent insecure communication, validate input information, securely store app data and code, prevent reverse engineering, and implement proper authentication and authorization practices. This will help prevent attacks that target devices, app integrity, user credentials, API channels, and vulnerabilities in APIs and services.
Business IT alignment defines the process of using IT to achieve business objectives by motivating different teams to understand each other's roles, integrating business and IT teams into common units, and implementing a shared company language among all teams. Transparency between all teams and in-house mentorship programs help bridge the gap between business and IT employees so they can work toward common goals.
Context aware security is a branch of information security that uses situational information like location, time, browser used, and blacklist/whitelist of networks to determine whether to allow or deny access to information. It analyzes factors around an access request to understand the who, what, when, where, and why to make more informed access decisions. Context aware security conducts historical analysis of browsers used and denies requests if they are outside normal user behavior or come from abnormal locations or times.
The six steps of an incident response plan are: 1) preparation through creating security policies and communication strategies, 2) identification of malicious acts by analyzing logs and data, 3) containment to limit damage and prevent escalation, 4) eradication by removing contaminated systems and replacing them, 5) recovery of damaged work and cleaning impacted systems, and 6) analyzing lessons learned including the root cause of the breach.
VPN (Virtual Private Network) allows secure access to business networks and applications from any location by encrypting data transfers over public networks. Some key benefits of VPN for businesses include increased security, allowing employees to securely access business portals remotely, ability to access the business network from different locations, safeguarding user identity, enabling network scalability, preventing throttling of data or bandwidth by internet service providers, and providing access to geo-blocked applications.
What is Conformance Testing Of An Application?Centextech
Conformance testing is a type of non-functional testing used to determine if an application meets an organization's criteria. It assesses development and maintenance procedures, ensures outputs align with standards at each stage, and examines documentation for completeness and relevance. Conformance testing requires test method standards, procedures for testing, qualified personnel, and standard specifications.
The role of an information security manager involves monitoring and controlling all aspects of enterprise computer security. Their responsibilities include assessing risks, minimizing threats, upgrading security systems, ensuring compliance with standards, testing security products and procedures, preparing for disasters and security breaches, documenting technical information, and reporting to users and managers. The information security manager is responsible for detecting and securing weak points in the system.
The document discusses common security threats facing ecommerce businesses, including malware attacks, backdoors, ransomware, credit card fraud, DDoS attacks, data scraping, SQL injections, and social engineering. As the ecommerce sector has grown in recent years, cyberattacks against ecommerce companies have also increased. The top security threats are outlined for ecommerce businesses to be aware of.
A comprehensive IT security audit checks vulnerabilities in a business's current IT environment by evaluating key elements like ethical hacking, penetration testing, network scanning, firewall configurations, password policies, and physical security. The audit ensures proper active directory setup, backup and disaster recovery, antivirus software, server patching, device security, software licensing, internal network configurations, server and workstation accessibility, remote access and mobile usage policies, and file sharing policies are in place.
How To Protect Mobile Apps and APIs from AttackersCentextech
Mobile apps and APIs are common targets for cyberattacks from threat actors seeking to access operational or personal user data without authorization or interrupt business services. To protect mobile apps and APIs, organizations should prevent insecure communication, validate input information, securely store app data and code, prevent reverse engineering, and implement proper authentication and authorization practices. This will help prevent attacks that target devices, app integrity, user credentials, API channels, and vulnerabilities in APIs and services.
Business IT alignment defines the process of using IT to achieve business objectives by motivating different teams to understand each other's roles, integrating business and IT teams into common units, and implementing a shared company language among all teams. Transparency between all teams and in-house mentorship programs help bridge the gap between business and IT employees so they can work toward common goals.
Securing BGP: Operational Strategies and Best Practices for Network Defenders...APNIC
Md. Zobair Khan,
Network Analyst and Technical Trainer at APNIC, presented 'Securing BGP: Operational Strategies and Best Practices for Network Defenders' at the Phoenix Summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 23 to 24 May 2024.
Honeypots Unveiled: Proactive Defense Tactics for Cyber Security, Phoenix Sum...APNIC
Adli Wahid, Senior Internet Security Specialist at APNIC, delivered a presentation titled 'Honeypots Unveiled: Proactive Defense Tactics for Cyber Security' at the Phoenix Summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 23 to 24 May 2024.
Decentralized Justice in Gaming and EsportsFederico Ast
Discover how Kleros is transforming the landscape of dispute resolution in the gaming and eSports industry through the power of decentralized justice.
This presentation, delivered by Federico Ast, CEO of Kleros, explores the innovative application of blockchain technology, crowdsourcing, and incentivized mechanisms to create fair and efficient arbitration processes.
Key Highlights:
- Introduction to Decentralized Justice: Learn about the foundational principles of Kleros and how it combines blockchain with crowdsourcing to develop a novel justice system.
- Challenges in Traditional Arbitration: Understand the limitations of conventional arbitration methods, such as high costs and long resolution times, particularly for small claims in the gaming sector.
- How Kleros Works: A step-by-step guide on the functioning of Kleros, from the initiation of a smart contract to the final decision by a jury of peers.
- Case Studies in eSports: Explore real-world scenarios where Kleros has been applied to resolve disputes in eSports, including issues like cheating, governance, player behavior, and contractual disagreements.
- Practical Implementation: Detailed walkthroughs of how disputes are handled in eSports tournaments, emphasizing speed, cost-efficiency, and fairness.
- Enhanced Transparency: The role of blockchain in providing an immutable and transparent record of proceedings, ensuring trust in the resolution process.
- Future Prospects: The potential expansion of decentralized justice mechanisms across various sectors within the gaming industry.
For more information, visit kleros.io or follow Federico Ast and Kleros on social media:
• Twitter: @federicoast
• Twitter: @kleros_io
1. Firewalls: Types & Advantages
Firewall is a system used for securing a network from viruses
and other online threats by acting as an invisible barrier
between untrusted and trusted networks. Either hardware or
software based, Firewall monitors the outgoing and incoming
traffic and prevents cyber-attacks.
Packet Filtering Firewalls
Compare each data packet to established criteria
and then discard or forward it.
Different
Types
Based on functionality, Firewalls can be classified as :
1
Filtering criteria is based on information
contained in the data packet.
Prone to routing attacks and IP address spoofing
due to its network level usage.
Application/Proxy Firewalls
Doesn't allow direct connection between internet
and your system.
2
Examine the data flowing through the system at
an application level.
Offer better security but with less speed and
limited functionality.
Hybrid Firewalls
Combines the features of both packet filtering
and proxy firewalls in series.
3
Provides maximum security as these can work at
both application and network level.
Advantages Of Using A Firewall
Helps you to monitor all the traffic entering
& exiting the network.
Blocks trojan from the outset before it even
have a chance to infect the system.
Assists in keeping the hackers and intruders
away from the network.
Hides your personal information to protect
it from the outside hosts.
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