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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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Radar trends to watch: May 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

2022 promises to be an even bigger year for cryptocrime than 2021. The NSA, Department of Energy, and other federal agencies have discovered a new malware toolkit named “pipedream” that is designed to disable power infrastructure. The malware targets WatchGuard firewalls and Asus routers.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

And Gartner estimates spending on information security and risk management will total $172 billion in 2022, up from $155 billion in 2021 and $137 billion the year prior. A December 2021 survey by CSO found that 44% of security leaders at large companies expected their budgets to increase in the upcoming 12 months.

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Introducing New 4th Generation ML-Powered NGFWs

Palo Alto Networks

Today, we’re proud to announce the release of five, new fourth-generation ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) that bring PAN-OS 11.0 We’re proud to continue a legacy of innovation and excellence that has garnered recognition as a 10-time Leader in network firewalls. New Hardware Platform Releases. Meet the PA-5440.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Chaos is new malware that can infect both Windows and Linux devices, including routers, firewalls, and other networking hardware. It is spreading in the wild; it propagates by taking advantage of known vulnerabilities.

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

In August 2022, the French hospital Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF) was the victim of a ransomware attack that disabled medical imaging and patient admission systems. Most healthcare providers already have network firewalls that act as enforcement points for Zero Trust device security. But ransomware isn’t the only risk.

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CVE-2024-21762: Critical Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write SSL VPN Vulnerability

Tenable

On February 7, researchers at Fortinet published a blog post highlighting the exploitation of CVE-2022-42475 and CVE-2023-27997 by Chinese threat groups including Volt Typhoon , APT15 (also known as Ke3chang) and APT31 (also known as ZIRCONIUM) as well as UNC757 ( also known as Fox Kitten), which has a “suspected nexus to the Iranian government.”

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