firewall
Palo Alto Networks Unfurls Managed Firewall Service for Azure
Palo Alto Networks today launched a managed firewall service for Microsoft Azure environments. The next-generation firewall (NGFW) can be accessed via a console running on the Microsoft cloud platform or in an ...
What is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)? The Zero Trust model, Framework and Technologies Explained
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have been used for years to provide remote connectivity, but they have limitations in terms of scalability and security. A technology… ...
Do You Need EDR if You Already Have a Firewall?
Considering the effectiveness of an endpoint security solution when a firewall is already in place is a valid concern for any organization looking to run lean. On the surface, they can look ...
What is a Cloud Firewall? FWaaS, NGFW, K8s Firewalls and More
Like traditional firewalls, cloud firewalls are security products that filter out potentially malicious network traffic. However, unlike traditional firewalls, these firewalls are hosted in the cloud. Just as traditional network firewalls create ...
Poor Firewall Implementations Pave Wave for DDoS Attacks
Organizations often tend to heavily and exclusively rely on firewalls, load balancers, and VPNs, among others, to prevent DDoS attacks, secure their mission-critical assets, and protect their IT infrastructure. But. The post ...
This Week in Malware: killing Windows Defender with an npm package
This Week in Malware, highlights include malicious npm package 'flame-vali' that claims to let developers "bypass any request proxys." But that's not quite the case. And, some more dependency confusion packages caught ...
The Future of Firewalls: FWaaS, WAF and SASE
A firewall is a network security firmware or software that aims to prevent unauthorized access to a certain network. It uses rules to inspect inbound and outbound traffic to identify and block ...
Oracle Adds Services to Strengthen Cloud Security
Oracle today extended the security capabilities of its cloud platform by adding a managed firewall service based on the Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) from Palo Alto Networks. In addition, Oracle added a threat ...
PyPI package ‘ctx’ and PHP library ‘phpass’ compromised to steal environment variables
This week, immensely popular PyPI package 'ctx' has been compromised and altered to steal environment variables from its users. Additionally, a forked PHP project 'phpass' also suffered a repo-hijacking attack with the ...
Palo Alto Networks Unfurls Managed NGFW on AWS
Palo Alto Networks today announced it is making available a next-generation firewall (NGFW) that runs natively on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Anand Oswal, senior vice president for network security at ...
