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5 Questions About Which Firewall Goes Where

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By Joel Snyder
| BizTech Verified
2. How Do Stateful Packet-Filtering Firewalls Protect Data Centers? An on-premises data center needs protection from daily hack attempts. But security features such as intrusion prevention or anti-malware have a performance and budget cost out of proportion to the benefits. Financial institutions should focus on high-performance hardware that won’t need babysitting or upgrades as traffic volume grows. Buy for that 10 gigabit-per-second connection you know is coming down the pipe.
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5 Questions About Which Firewall Goes Where

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By Joel Snyder
| EdTech: Focus on Higher Education Verified
1. How Do UTM Firewalls Protect Users? Whether they’re called unified threat management, next-generation, software-defined WAN or secure access service edge, firewalls need to have advanced Layer 7 knowledge to protect users. A combination of application intelligence and threat mitigation is needed. The buzzword isn’t as important as the features you turn on: application management, anti-malware, URL filtering, intrusion prevention and (in many environments) user authentication.
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5 Questions About Security Debt for Small Businesses

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By Joel Snyder
| BizTech Verified
1. What is security debt, and how is it different from technical debt? Security debt is the accumulation of vulnerabilities and outright gaps that occurs as technology products and portfolios mature and network architectures and security baselines evolve. If IT stands still while the world around it changes, dangers accrue on their own. Unlike technical debt, security debt includes unknown risks and unpredictable mitigations: You don’t know what you don’t know.
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