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The Top Challenges Faced by Organizations Implementing DevSecOps

DevSecOps stands for development, security, and operations. DevSecOps emerged in response to observations that many DevOps processes failed to integrate security properly. The idea is to identify and fix security issues as early as possible in the development lifecycle, helping to reduce risk while maintaining agility and speed. DevSecOps is as muc...
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How to Resolve Data Protection Woes With SSE

The outdated security approaches of yesterday are no longer a good fit for protecting today’s data. These traditional security tactics were centered around the data center, but users, apps, data, and even infrastructure (in the form of IaaS), have left the building for good. Consequently, backhauling traffic no longer makes sense in today’s dynamic...
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CISA Must Update its latest OT Security Warning and Guidance to Include Zero Trust

On April 14, 2022, CISA published a warning regarding potential denial-of-service attacks that could exploit vulnerabilities in certain OT assets. Specifically, CISA warned that an OpenSSL TLS server may crash if sent a maliciously crafted renegotiation ClientHello message from a client. According to the warning, servers with the default configurat...
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6 Min read

Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Organizations are rapidly adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate the process of deploying, configuring, and decommissioning cloud-based infrastructure. IaC helps to avoid configuration drift through automation and increases the speed, consistency, and agility of infrastructure deployments—as compared to traditional IT infrastructure—by a...
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Securing Infrastructure by Embedding Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Security into Developer Workflows

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is widely adopted by organizations to easily manage and provision their infrastructures on the cloud and automate their deployment process. It allows engineers to quickly build, provision, scale, update, or delete infrastructure resources on cloud platforms using automation tools. With great automation, comes the po...
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Welcome to Networkrassic Park

In Jurassic World, where giant dinosaurs ruled, cultivated the land, and maintained the natural balance, these creatures were a perfect species for that environment that served a purpose. Similarly, decades ago, in the business world, firewalls, VPNs, switches, and routers roamed the data center using routable transports to maintain ingress and egr...
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AI in Cybersecurity: The Hardware Problem

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gotten a lot of attention in recent years as its adoption has skyrocketed across industries and use cases, effectively forging its way into a “mainstream technology.” However, cybersecurity is where you may have not heard about it much. Well, actually, you’ve probably heard about it in cybersecurity, but I’ll bet it...
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The Four Key Drivers of Data Loss and How You Can Respond

Protecting data in the modern business world is no small task. The widespread adoption of cloud-based resources like SaaS apps, the rise of bring your own device (BYOD), and much more have introduced a myriad of new data security gaps. Unfortunately, legacy tools lack the needed functionality to address these novel challenges. They were built for a...
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The Next-Gen Firewall is Dead. Long Live Cloud-Gen Firewall!

For a large part of the last two decades, I have been designing, developing, and deploying firewalls. Initially, the industry was happy with 5-tuple, port-based stateful firewalls. In the mid-2000s, next-generation firewalls were born, and they included other dimensions such as users, groups, and applications. URL filtering and threat and data prot...
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Even the Cloud is Bigger (and More Secure) in Texas

Zscaler is proud to have been named to the Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program (TX-RAMP) program. Our early entry into the TX-RAMP program gives our Texas customers access to the largest provider of zero trust access solutions in the U.S. In the spirit of FedRAMP and StateRAMP, this program provides a standardized approach for secur...

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