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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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Firewalla launches its Purple gigabit home firewall

TechCrunch

Over the course of the last few years, Firewalla ‘s combined firewall and router devices have made a name for themselves as the go-to hardware security tools for many enthusiasts and small businesses. With many homes now having access to gigabit internet connections, though, the Purple slots in nicely in the middle there.

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Threat Actor Allegedly Selling Fortinet Firewall Zero-Day Exploit 

Ooda Loop

A theater actor is claiming to have knowledge of a zero-day exploit in Fortinets FortiGate firewalls, and is offering to sell the vulnerability. The offer comes after Fortinet has recently warned of threat actors accessing its FortiOS and FortiProxy devices.

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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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Enhancing Private 5G Security in industrial deployments

CIO

Shining a light on the OT network NTT DATA has teamed up with Palo Alto Networks (PAN) to solve this challenge.

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Navigating Firewall Security Policy Challenges in Technology Organizations: How FireMon Simplifies Complexity

Firemon

However, these innovations also bring a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing firewall security policies. However, each change to the networkwhether adding new applications, services, or APIsrequires corresponding updates to firewall security policies.

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How To Configure FQDN Firewall Rules In Google Cloud

Xebia

Filtering web traffic is easy with Cloud Firewall , a cloud-first NGFW with advanced threat protection. If this is too much, consider an public/private network design to reduce the traffic filtered by the firewall. Conclusion Cloud Firewall makes it easy to filter web traffic. Looking for more examples?

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