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What is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework? All You Need to Know

What is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework? All You Need to Know

The growing sophistication of cyber-attacks poses challenges to businesses of all sizes. Hence, understanding cybersecurity risks and managing them with suitable measures is the need of the hour. Organisations today need an effective cybersecurity program to secure their critical resources. Considering this, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Microsegmentation Vs Zero Trust

Microsegmentation

Microsegmentation Vs Zero Trust

With the growing sophistication and frequency of malicious attacks, there is a dire need for approaches and tools to ensure cyber security. Hackers use several ways to attack businesses and move freely within an organisation’s network. Furthermore, trusted users also misuse their access for malicious purposes. Therefore, security teams

Types of Microsegmentation: Explained

Microsegmentation

Types of Microsegmentation: Explained

Microsegmentation is a network security architecture that divides data centres into different segments. The sub-networks or zones can reach up to individual workloads that help organisations limit user access. The technique allows the creation of boundaries between a network. The traffic moving between these boundaries has to pass security controls

Software Defined Perimeter: Best Method for Adopting Zero Trust

Software Defined Perimeter

Software Defined Perimeter: Best Method for Adopting Zero Trust

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTN) follows the approach of “never trust, always verify”, a drastic change from the earlier accepted notion of treating insiders as trusted entities and not threats. ZTN believes that no one is to be trusted, and proper verification of the user and the device is essential

10 Networking Abbreviations Everyone Should Know

10 Networking Abbreviations Everyone Should Know

There are lots of acronyms and abbreviations of networking terms that are often used by IT professionals. Sometimes, the networking short forms have some overlapping meanings and are used interchangeably. So, it is essential to understand the meanings of these networking acronyms and their technical significance. Here is the list

VPN Passthrough vs IPsec Passthrough: Understanding the Difference

VPN Passthrough vs IPsec Passthrough: Understanding the Difference

In the domain of computer networking, you will come across the term “VPN Passthrough," a feature that is built into a router, and the terminology can be quite confusing. In this article, we will try to cover what VPN passthrough is, how it works, and why it is even required.

How Zero Trust Can Protect You from Lateral Movement Attacks?

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How Zero Trust Can Protect You from Lateral Movement Attacks?

What is Lateral movement? Lateral movement is when attackers gain access to one part of the network and then navigate across the network leaving the entire network vulnerable. In this blog, we will explore more on lateral movement in cybersecurity, its impact and prevention. Once inside the network, hackers can

What is Software Defined Perimeter (SDP)?

Software Defined Perimeter

What is Software Defined Perimeter (SDP)?

The Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) is a security framework that builds a wall around your company's cloud network and limits user access to the resources hosted on the cloud based on their identity. It establishes a security perimeter using software to hide your company's network infrastructure from outsiders and malicious

Enterprise VPN Re-imagined: Crafting Scalable VPN Solutions

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Enterprise VPN Re-imagined: Crafting Scalable VPN Solutions

Working from home and remote working have become the norm and continue to be many organisations' ideal ways of operation even after two years post the pandemic. While at the beginning stage of the global pandemic, the sudden shift to the remote working environment forced organisations and businesses to adopt

4 Weaknesses of VPN Your Organisation Should Know

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4 Weaknesses of VPN Your Organisation Should Know

A Virtual Private Network has been a common and quite popular solution adopted by organisations to meet their remote working needs and requirements. Remote employees and third-party vendors, like contractors, need a secure solution to access the company's network, resources, and applications. While VPN can help here, it isn't ideal

SRE vs DevOps: Understanding the Difference

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SRE vs DevOps: Understanding the Difference

With the increasing application and software development complexity, organisations and companies are increasingly adopting operational solutions and methodologies that enable faster and more secure software development. Two such very important and popular methodologies include DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), which boost the product's and application's release cycle with automation,

7 Ways Cloud VPN Can Skyrocket Your Company’s Success

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7 Ways Cloud VPN Can Skyrocket Your Company’s Success

If your organisation has been working remotely for a while, you must know that you need a secure Cloud VPN for secure cloud remote access. Major eCommerce giants like Shopify and Facebook have announced that they’ll be returning to the offices in the future, with 50% of the employees

VPN challenges: Understanding disconnection and latency issues with VPN. Why should your organization move to Zero Trust Access?

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VPN challenges: Understanding disconnection and latency issues with VPN. Why should your organization move to Zero Trust Access?

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is used by most organizations for their remote employees who need to access corporate applications or servers from anywhere. VPNs are a popular and preferred method to access private networks using public networks. The popularity of VPNs is because the technology is relatively simple to

Secure Remote Access: Protect WFH Employees from Cyberthreats

Secure Remote Access: Protect WFH Employees from Cyberthreats

Ever since the shift to the remote working environment among businesses and corporates all across the globe, there has been an acceleration in demand for secure remote network access solutions. With employees working from remote locations, companies have also experienced a growth in the cybersecurity risks pertaining to work-from-home situations.

7 Best Practices to Follow for Application Security in Cloud

7 Best Practices to Follow for Application Security in Cloud

Cloud security is one of the topmost priorities for organisations and businesses, considering the growing cybersecurity threats and malicious attacks. However, because of the seamless scalability and flexibility, businesses are increasingly adopting cloud solutions for their remote working environments and secure network access requirements. According to the cloud security report

VPN Performance Can Disrupt Network Experience: Here's Why

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VPN Performance Can Disrupt Network Experience: Here's Why

Optimum network connectivity and uninterrupted performance are highly important to boost users' network experience and improve productivity. Regarding Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), employee complaints about network latency and performance degradation are frequent across organisations of all shapes and sizes. Poor network VPN performance hampers productivity significantly because of disrupted services,

5 Benefits of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

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5 Benefits of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

The increasing cybersecurity threats and online attacks are the major concerns for organisations today. According to the statistics, 68% of organisations experienced targeted network attacks, resulting in data losses. Moreover, in the remote working environment, the average data breach costs have increased by $137,000. These statistics show the negative

Security Integration in the DevOps World: A Complete Guide

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Security Integration in the DevOps World: A Complete Guide

Software development and deployment pace have dramatically increased over the past few years. While developers carried out deployments manually in the past, DevOps models [https://instasafe.com/blog/zero-trust-in-a-devops-environment-an-indispensable-necessity/] have automated the deployment and sped up the processes significantly. DevOps combines IT operations and software development to reduce the Software

What’s the Difference Between Traditional and Cloud VPNs?

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What’s the Difference Between Traditional and Cloud VPNs?

As the remote working environment and work-from-home scenarios started becoming the new norm, many businesses started adopting the Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to connect remote employees to the company network. A traditional VPN solution is affordable, easy to use and highly convenient for businesses. However, as cybersecurity attacks and data

What is the Difference Between MFA and SSO?

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What is the Difference Between MFA and SSO?

Ensuring high data security and protection is a must in today’s age of increasing cybersecurity attacks and data breaches. Yet, while usernames and passwords are the foundational user identification factors, they aren’t enough today to combat online attacks and ensure maximum data protection. As cybersecurity threats continue to

What are the Benefits of Zero Trust Security?

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What are the Benefits of Zero Trust Security?

The digital revolution has evolved the IT industry tremendously. Businesses of all shapes and sizes store their critical business data and information through cloud computing solutions and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data to boost productivity. However, the problem with these traditional

What is Domain Controller? Everything You Need to Know

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What is Domain Controller? Everything You Need to Know

Implementing the network security best practises is of the utmost importance to enable secure remote device access, extend security compliance, centralise user data, and strengthen your security posture. In this remote working environment, establishing a secure connection between your remote employee’s devices and the corporate domain is important to