Secure Workload and Secure Firewall: The recipe for a robust zero trust cybersecurity strategy

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You hear a lot about zero trust microsegmentation these days and rightly so. It has matured into a proven security best-practice to effectively prevent unauthorized lateral movement across network resources. It involves dividing your network into isolated segments, or “microsegments,” where each segment has its own set of...

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The myth of the long-tail vulnerability

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Modern-day vulnerability management tends to follow a straightforward procedure. From a high level, this can be summed up in the following steps:Identify the vulnerabilities in your environmentPrioritize which vulnerabilities to addressRemediate the vulnerabilitiesWhen high-profile vulnerabilities are disclosed, they tend to be prioritized due to concerns that your organization...

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The New Normal is Here with Secure Firewall 4200 Series and Threat Defense 7.4

What Time Is It?It’s been a minute since my last update on our network security strategy, but we have been busy building some awesome capabilities to enable true new-normal firewalling. As we release Secure Firewall 4200 Series appliances and Threat Defense 7.4 software, let me bring you up...

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Cisco Joins the Launch of Amazon Security Lake

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The Cisco Secure Technical Alliance supports the open ecosystem and AWS is a valued technology alliance partner, with integrations across the Cisco Secure portfolio, including SecureX, Secure Firewall, Secure Cloud Analytics, Duo, Umbrella, Web Security Appliance, Secure Workload, Secure Endpoint, Identity Services Engine, and more.Cisco Secure and AWS...

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Cisco Secure Firewall on AWS: Build resilience at scale with stateful firewall clustering

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Organizations embrace the public cloud for the agility, scalability, and reliability it offers when running applications. But just as organizations need these capabilities to ensure their applications operate where needed and as needed, they also require their security does the same. Organizations may introduce multiple individual firewalls into...

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Leveraging the Cloud to Scale your Industrial DMZ

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The iDMZ (industrial demilitarized zone) is a critical layer in a comprehensive end-to-end security strategy for an industrial operations environment. The primary function of the iDMZ is the enforcement of a secure boundary between the internal trusted operations environment and external entities that may need to exchange data...

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Scale security on the fly in Microsoft Azure Cloud with Cisco Secure Firewall

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The release of Microsoft Azure Gateway Load Balancer is great news for customers, empowering them to simply and easily add Cisco Secure Firewall capabilities to their Azure cloud infrastructure. By combining Azure Gateway Load Balancer with Cisco Secure Firewall, organizations can quickly scale their firewall presence across their...

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