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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO

What is a human firewall? A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. It also boasts a massive advantage over hardware and software firewalls: common sense.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO

It also delivers security services and solutions – including best-in-class firewalls, endpoint detection and response, and security information and event management – needed to address the most stringent cyber resiliency requirements. We enable them to successfully address these realities head-on.”

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Sweat the small stuff: Data protection in the age of AI

CIO

Data protection in the AI era Recently, I attended the annual member conference of the ACSC , a non-profit organization focused on improving cybersecurity defense for enterprises, universities, government agencies, and other organizations. The latter issue, data protection, touches every company.

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Enhancing Private 5G Security in industrial deployments

CIO

Businesses can thereby isolate data and reduce the risk of security breaches in the wireless domain, mirroring what they can do today in the wired domain. More than ever, businesses are concerned that threat actors could place malware on their OT networks and syphon valuable data over an extended period.

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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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TripleBlind secures $24M for a new approach to enterprise-level, privacy-preserving data sharing

TechCrunch

Organizations that have made the leap into using big data to drive their business are increasingly looking for better, more efficient ways to share data with others without compromising privacy and data protection laws, and that is ushering in a rush of technologists building a number of new approaches to fill that need.

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Unify structured data in Amazon Aurora and unstructured data in Amazon S3 for insights using Amazon Q

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In today’s data-intensive business landscape, organizations face the challenge of extracting valuable insights from diverse data sources scattered across their infrastructure. The solution combines data from an Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition database and data stored in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket.

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