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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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OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet

TechCrunch

Beyond the web plugin, OpenAI released a code interpreter for ChatGPT that provides the chatbot with a working Python interpreter in a sandboxed, firewalled environment along with disk space. Time will tell whether they’re sufficient. ” Plugins are a curious addition to the timeline of ChatGPT’s development.

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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO

AI will increasingly eliminate low-level software development jobs , and machine intelligence will become the default for writing most modular code along with documentation, says TransUnion CIO Munir Hafez. Maintaining network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls by hand are examples.” But that will change. “As

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Tailscale raises $12 million for its WireGuard-based corporate VPN

TechCrunch

Other companies still rely on corporate VPNs and firewalls as they are easy to implement. Your company has an internal Git server and an internal documentation wiki. There’s no need to expose your documentation wiki to the internet as employees first use Tailscale to access the server. Image Credits: Tailscale.

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4 Ways to Improve Nessus Scans Through Firewalls

Tenable

Establishing the right configurations and settings can improve Nessus scan results when scanning through firewalls. Network-based firewalls are essential for an organization’s perimeter protection and internal network segregation, while host-based firewalls are common on both Linux and Windows systems. . Tuning a network scan.

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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

Whether it’s structured data in databases or unstructured content in document repositories, enterprises often struggle to efficiently query and use this wealth of information. Under VPC security group (firewall) , choose Existing and choose the existing security group that you created for the Aurora MySQL DB instance. Choose Next.

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Forest Admin launches cloud version of its low-code internal tool builder

TechCrunch

For instance, a fintech company could use Forest Admin to review and validate documents and make sure it complies with KYC and AML regulation (‘know your customer’ and ‘anti-money laundering’) — Qonto is one of the startup’s biggest customers with 2,000 people using Forest Admin.