August 15, 2023

What is a next-generation firewall?

Firewalls have been in operation since the advent of networking, protecting your system from complex and sophisticated threats requires additional security measures that supplement a firewall's primary purpose.

Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) pack in the functionality that has made firewalls a network security mainstay for decades but then go above and beyond to provide more granular options that offer a deeper, more nuanced look at your network traffic and more control over it.

Read Next-generation firewalls: protecting your network against advanced threats.

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News roundup Mon, August 14, 2023

Stories, news, politics and events impacting the network security industry during the last week.

• CISA reports third backdoor discovered in Barracuda ESG spyware campaign
• Fortinet warns of thousands of attacks hoping to exploit EoL Zyxel routers
• Modern CPUs vulnerable to trio of new side-channel attacks
• Russia implicated in UK Electoral Commission cyberattack as prime suspect
• High-ranking Microsoft 365 users targeted in EvilProxy phishing scheme
• Cloudflare Tunnels abused by threat actors to create undetected connections
• New malware campaign preys upon rookie cybercriminals
• Redis servers targeted with new Skidmap malware variant
• Clop ransomware using torrents to leak stolen data
• Read more

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