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‍ When organizations were forced to shift to remote work during the pandemic, they needed a quick-fix solution that would enable their remote employees to securely access work resources. For many, this solution came in the form of VPNs. However, VPNs were not designed for the bring your own device (BYOD) and cloud app security use cases. While VPNs can provide remote access, it may come as a surprise that they fall short when it comes to security.

It is no surprise that across the financial services industry a steady increase in cloud adoption has taken place in recent years. This trend is expected to continue and grow as organizations look to replace aging, traditional technology. For financial organizations, these changes taking place impact both business operations and customers. Banking, commerce, transactions — not to mention all of their corresponding data — are part of this transformation.

Decoding the role of visibility in securing federal networks.

All secured webservers are alike; each vulnerable webserver running on a network appliance is vulnerable in its own way. On October 16th 2023 Cisco published a security advisory detailing an actively exploited vulnerability (CVE-2023-20198) in its IOS XE operating system with a 10 CVSS score, allowing for unauthenticated privilege escalation and subsequent full administrative access (level 15 in Cisco terminology) to the vulnerable device.

Forward Networks was recently honored as the Top InfoSec Innovator by Cyber Defense Magazine. Commenting on the win, Yan Ross, editor of Cyber Defense Magazine said, “We scoured the globe looking for cybersecurity innovators that could make a huge difference and potentially help turn the tide against the exponential growth in cyber-crime. Forward Networks is worthy of being named a winner in these coveted awards and consideration for deployment in your environment.”

It has been a distinct honor to be a part of the Corelight team that helped defend this year’s Black Hat events. I started the event season in the Network Operations Center (NOC) at Black Hat Asia, and then capped it off at Black Hat in Las Vegas. In this blog I’ll share my experience and learnings from participating in both NOCs.

The best security posture is a multi-layered security posture. Enterprise security leaders understand that no single tool or solution can provide best-in-class security to an entire organization on its own. As a result, security leaders continually invest in new security tools and platforms to address a growing list of emerging cyber threats like ransomware, credential-based attacks, and malicious insiders. However, not all network security solutions work together smoothly.