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Webinars Network Security Vision with Application Visibility | Live discussion and demo You’re always making changes to your network, commissioning and decommissioning servers, moving data to and from the cloud, revising application connectivity settings and policies, and/or adding and removing business applications. But how do you make sure that you are not running blind and making network configuration mistakes that may lead to outages? Are you leaving firewall openings for unused applications, making your network vulnerable to insider threats or outside attackers? Stop running blind. Expand your vision with application visibility. With application visibility, you associate your traffic flows to the related business applications, enhance network visibility, improve troubleshooting, gain enhanced compliance reports, and even save time while improving security on your network. In this webinar, Avishai Wool, AlgoSec’s co-founder and CTO, and Yoni Geva, AlgoSec’s Product Manager, will demonstrate – in a live demo – how to overcome these challenges and ensure business continuity through application visibility. Join the webinar and learn how to: Associate your business applications with your security policy rules. Identify the network traffic relevant for each application. Identify hidden risks and vulnerabilities in your applications. Associate compliance violations with relevant business applications. Improve troubleshooting by identifying affected applications. Better document the applications on your network. March 5, 2020 Prof. Avishai Wool CTO & Co Founder AlgoSec Yoni Geva Product Manager Relevant resources Adopting an application-centric approach to security management: getting business leaders interested Keep Reading The Need for Application-Centric Security Policy Management Keep Reading Choose a better way to manage your network Choose a better way to manage your network Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Continue

DevOps security connectivity management allows for better cooperation between security DevOps Use AlgoSec to ensure secure, compliant development environments Click here for more! Optimizing DevOps: Enhanced release quality and faster time-to-market Select a size Which network Can AlgoSec be used for continuous compliance monitoring? Yes, AlgoSec supports continuous compliance monitoring. As organizations adapt their security policies to meet emerging threats and address new vulnerabilities, they must constantly verify these changes against the compliance frameworks they subscribe to. AlgoSec can generate risk assessment reports and conduct internal audits on-demand, allowing compliance officers to monitor compliance performance in real-time. Security professionals can also use AlgoSec to preview and simulate proposed changes to the organization’s security policies. This gives compliance officers a valuable degree of lead-time before planned changes impact regulatory guidelines and allows for continuous real-time monitoring. What is DevOps security management? Key pain points in securing your CI/CD pipeline Streamlined security, compliance, and faster deployments Speeds up application delivery without compromising security Empower your DevOps workflow with seamless connectivity integration Lock down container security with smart threat management Key benefits of using AlgoSec Get the latest insights from the experts DevOpsifying Network Security Watch video Integrate Security Into DevOps for Faster, Safer Application Delivery Into Production Read document Best Practices for Incorporating Security Automation into the DevOps Lifecycle Watch video Schedule time with one of our experts Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Continue

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1. Application-centric security Many of today’s security discussions focus on compromised credentials, misconfigurations, and malicious... Cloud Security Emerging Tech Trends – 2023 Perspective Ava Chawla 2 min read Ava Chawla Short bio about author here Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur. Vitae donec tincidunt elementum quam laoreet duis sit enim. Duis mattis velit sit leo diam. Tags Share this article 11/24/22 Published 1. Application-centric security Many of today’s security discussions focus on compromised credentials, misconfigurations, and malicious or unintentional misuse of resources. Disruptive technologies from Cloud to smart devices and connected networks mean the attack surface is growing. Security conversations are increasingly expanding to include business-critical applications and their dependencies. Organizations are beginning to recognize that a failure to take an application-centric approach to security increases the potential for unidentified, unmitigated security gaps and vulnerabilities. 2. Portable, agile, API & automation driven enterprise architectures Successful business innovation requires the ability to efficiently deploy new applications and make changes without impacting downstream elements. This means fast deployments, optimized use of IT resources, and application segmentation with modular components that can seamlessly communicate. Container security is here to stay Containerization is a popular solution that reduces costs because containers are lightweight and contain no OS. Let's compare this to VMs, like containers, VMs allow the creation of isolated workspaces on a single machine. The OS is part of the VM and will communicate with the host through a hypervisor. With containers, the orchestration tool manages all the communication between the host OS and each container. Aside from the portability benefit of containers, they are also easily managed via APIs, which is ideal for modular, automation-driven enterprise architectures. The growth of containerized applications and automation will continue. Lift and Shift left approach will thrive Many organizations have started digital transformation journeys that include lift and shift migrations to the Cloud. A lift and shift migration enables organizations to move quickly, however, the full benefits of cloud are not realized. Optimized cloud architectures have cloud automation mechanisms deployed such as serverless (i.e – AWS Lamda), auto-scaling, and infrastructure as code (IaC) (i.e – AWS Cloud Formation) services. Enterprises with lift and shift deployments will increasingly prioritize a re-platform and/or modernization of their cloud architectures with a focus on automation. Terraform for IaC is the next step forward With hybrid cloud estates becoming increasingly common, Terraform-based IaC templates will increasingly become the framework of choice for managing and provisioning IT resources through machine-readable definition files. This is because Terraform, is cloud-agnostic, supporting all three major cloud service providers and can be used for on-premises infrastructure enabling a homogenous IaC solution across multi-cloud and on-premises. 3. Smart Connectivity & Predictive Technologies The growth of connected devices and AI/ML has led to a trend toward predictive technologies. Predictive technologies go beyond isolated data analysis to enable intelligent decisions. At the heart of this are smart, connected devices working across networks whose combined data 1. enables intelligent data analytics and 2. provides the means to build the robust labeled data sets required for accurate ML (Machine Learning) algorithms. 4. Accelerated adoption of agentless, multi-cloud security solutions Over 98% of organizations have elements of cloud across their networks. These organizations need robust cloud security but have yet to understand what that means. Most organizations are early in implementing cloud security guardrails and are challenged by the following: Misunderstanding the CSP (Cloud Service Provider) shared responsibility model Lack of visibility across multi-cloud networks Missed cloud misconfigurations Takeaways Cloud security posture management platforms are the current go-to solution for attaining broad compliance and configuration visibility. Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) are in their infancy. CNAPP applies an integrated approach with workload protection and other elements. CNAPP will emerge as the next iteration of must have cloud security platforms. Schedule a demo Related Articles Navigating Compliance in the Cloud AlgoSec Cloud Mar 19, 2023 · 2 min read 5 Multi-Cloud Environments Cloud Security Mar 19, 2023 · 2 min read Convergence didn’t fail, compliance did. Mar 19, 2023 · 2 min read Speak to one of our experts Speak to one of our experts Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Schedule a call

Security Policy Management with Professor Wool Micro-Segmentation Implementing a micro-segmentation strategy in the data center blocks lateral movement and helps protect the organization from cyberthreats. Watch this whiteboard video series on micro-segmentation and learn why and how to segment the data center, how to future-proof your policies and about the ongoing maintenance of a micro-segmented data center. Lesson 1 In this video, Prof. Wool introduces micro-segmentation: reasons for segmenting the data center, challenges, required steps when deploying a micro-segmentation strategy, and how to future-proof your policies. Introduction to Micro-segmentation Watch Lesson 2 Watch Prof. Wool as he shares tips on how to prepare for network segmentation by identifying the segment borders. Micro-segmentation – Mapping Existing Applications Watch Lesson 3 Watch this Prof. Wool video to learn how to define logical segments within a micro-segmentation project. Micro-segmentation – Defining Logical Segments Watch Lesson 4 In this video, Prof. Wool demonstrates how to generate a filtering policy during a micro-segmentation project. Micro-segmentation – Generating a Filtering Policy Watch Lesson 5 Watch this Prof. Wool video to learn about the ongoing maintenance of your data center upon completion of a micro-segmentation project. Micro-segmentation Ongoing Maintenance Watch Have a Question for Professor Wool? Ask him now Choose a better way to manage your network Choose a better way to manage your network Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Continue

Hospitals are increasingly becoming a favored target of cyber criminals. Yet if you think about medical equipment that is vulnerable to... Cyber Attacks & Incident Response Checking the cybersecurity pulse of medical devices Prof. Avishai Wool 2 min read Prof. Avishai Wool Short bio about author here Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur. Vitae donec tincidunt elementum quam laoreet duis sit enim. Duis mattis velit sit leo diam. Tags Share this article 6/14/16 Published Hospitals are increasingly becoming a favored target of cyber criminals. Yet if you think about medical equipment that is vulnerable to being hacked at a hospital, you might not immediately think of high-end, critical equipment such as MRI and X-ray scanners, and nuclear medicine devices. After all, these devices go through rigorous approval processes by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) before they are approved for safe use on patients. Yet today many, if not most, medical devices, have computers embedded in them, are connected to the hospital network, and often to the internet as well, so they provide a potential attack vector for cyber criminals. In late 2015 security researchers found that thousands of medical devices were vulnerable to attack and exposed to the public Internet. Interestingly, these researchers also found that many of the devices in question were running Windows XP – which is no longer supported or updated by Microsoft – and did not run antivirus software to protect them against malware. This combination raises an obvious security red flag. Ironically, these security vulnerabilities were further exacerbated because of the very FDA approvals process that certifies the devices. The approval process is, quite rightly, extremely rigorous. It is also lengthy and expensive. And if a manufacturer or vendor makes a change to a device, it needed to be re-certified. Until very recently, a ‘change’ to a medical device meant any sort of change – including patching devices’ operating systems and firmware to close off potential network security vulnerabilities. You can see where this is going: making simple updates to medical equipment to improve its defenses against cyberattacks was made that much more difficult and complex for the device manufacturers, because of the need for FDA re-certification every time a change was made. And of course, this potential delay in patching vulnerabilities made it easy for a hacker to try and ‘update’ the device in his own way, for criminal purposes. Hackers are usually not too concerned about getting FDA approval for their work. Fortunately, the FDA released new guidelines last year that allowed equipment manufacturers to patch software as required without undergoing re-certification—provided the change or modification does not ‘significantly affect the safety or effectiveness of the medical device’. That’s good news – but it’s not quite the end of the story. The FDA’s guidelines are only a partial panacea to the overall problem. They overlook the fact that many medical devices are running obsolete operating systems like Windows XP. What’s more, the actual process of applying patches to the computers in medical devices can vary enormously from manufacturer to manufacturer, with some patches needing to be downloaded and applied manually, while others may be pushed automatically. In either case, there could still be a window of weeks, months or even years before the device’s vendor issues a patch for a given vulnerability – a window that a hacker could exploit before the hospital’s IT team becomes aware that the vulnerability exists. This means that hospitals need to take great care when it comes to structuring and segmenting their network . It is vital that connected medical devices – particularly those where the internal OS may be out of date – are placed within defined, segregated segments of the network, and robustly protected with next-generation firewalls, web proxies and other filters. While network segmentation and filtering will not protect unpatched or obsolete operating system, they will ensure that the hospital’s network is secured to the best of its ability . Schedule a demo Related Articles Navigating Compliance in the Cloud AlgoSec Cloud Mar 19, 2023 · 2 min read 5 Multi-Cloud Environments Cloud Security Mar 19, 2023 · 2 min read Convergence didn’t fail, compliance did. Mar 19, 2023 · 2 min read Speak to one of our experts Speak to one of our experts Work email* First name* Last name* Company* country* Select country... Short answer* By submitting this form, I accept AlgoSec's privacy policy Schedule a call

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