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

CIO

Now that all the industry thought leaders have weighed in and published their predictions for what the cybersecurity landscape will look like in 2025, it seems that theres a clear consensus emerging: Both attacks and defense of devices and networks will increasingly be AI-driven as time goes by. What is a human firewall?

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Enhancing Private 5G Security in industrial deployments

CIO

According to research by Palo Alto, three-quarters of industrial organisations globally have detected malicious cyber activity in their OT environments. OT can be at the heart of critical infrastructure, meaning disruption could cause major problems and even endanger people. The threat is widespread.

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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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Phishers target oil and gas industry amid Covid-19 downturn

The Parallax

The oil-and-gas industry has been taking a beating as severe as any other hit hard by the Covid-19 shutdown. With all that going on, the industry is ripe for hackers to exploit. Attacks are becoming more complex because so many people are working from home and are outside of their employers’ firewalls,” he says.

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Nikesh Arora on Mad Money

Palo Alto Networks

The Rise of Platformization and the Renaissance of Firewall Both new and legacy security solutions are charging the way for this quarter’s success. While platformization is the wave of the future, firewalls are part of the steam that drives that engine forward. Arora emphasized the importance of platformization in the industry.

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

CIO

Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise. Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three.