Firewall - ITperfection - Network Security

Hacking & Hackers

Tech20202020-08-15T14:25:12+00:00Categories: Certified Ethical Hacker, Network Security|Tags: Anti-malware, Black Hat Hacker, Blue Hat Hackers, Certified Ethical Hacker, Cracker, CREST, Cyber Attacks, cyber crime, cyber security, CyberSecurity, DDoS attack, DoS attack, Elite Hackers, Ethical hackers, Ethical Hacking, Firewall, Foundstone Ultimate Hacking, Gray hat hacker, Hacking & Hackers, Hacktivism, Hacktivist, intrusion prevention systems, IPS, Malware, Network Attacks, Network Security, Offensive Security Certified Professional, Penetration Testing, Red Hat Hackers, SANS GPEN, Script kiddies, White Hat hacker|

Hacking refers to activities that seek to compromise digital devices, such as computers, smartphones, tablets, and even entire networks. In other words, hacking is identifying weakness in computer systems or networks to exploit its weaknesses to gain access. Businesses need to protect themselves against such attacks. Hacking is typically technical but hackers can also use [...]

Basics of Network Security

Tech20202020-08-14T07:15:24+00:00Categories: Network Security|Tags: Anti-malware, cisco, CISSP-Course, Cyber Attacks, cyber crime, cyber security, CyberSecurity, E-mail Encryption, e-mail security, Encryption, endpoint security, Firewall, IDS, intrusion prevention systems, IPS, Malware, mobile security, Network Attacks, Network Monitoring, Network Security, Penetration Testing, web security, wireless security|

It is essential for all organizations to protect their networks. With hackers increasing and becoming smarter day by day, the need to utilize network security tool becomes more and more impotent. Network security is any activity designed to protect the usability and integrity of network and data. In fact, network security is a term used [...]

IT Security Baselines

Tech20202020-10-19T08:01:55+00:00Categories: Microsoft, Network Security|Tags: administrative accounts, Anti-malware, Authentication, backup, cisco, Cryptography, Encryption, Firewall, Hardening Baselines, IT Security Baselines, Malware, Microsoft, Network Monitoring, Password, Password protection, PCI DSS, Physical Server, Security Checklist, service account, virtual machine, VM, Windows Server, Wireless Security Baselines|

All organizations are need to keep their apps and devices secure. These apps/ devices must be compliant with the security baselines defined by the organization. A security configuration checklist (lockdown or hardening guide or benchmark) is form a series of instructions for configuring a product to a particular security baseline. IT security checklists are helpful to [...]

NIST SP 800-50

Tech20202020-09-26T06:33:11+00:00Categories: Network Administration, Network Security, Standards and Agreements|Tags: And Education, Components: Awareness, cyber security, Designing an Awareness and Training Program, Developing Awareness and Training Material, Firewall, HIPAA, Implementing the Awareness and Training Program, ITAR compliance, Malware, Network Monitoring, Network Security, NIST, NIST SP 800-50, Post-Implementation, SOX, Training|

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. This Institute develops technology, metrics, and standards to drive innovation and economic competitiveness at U.S.-based organizations in the science and technology industry. For example, one of NIST’s roles is to develop guidelines on how companies can [...]

NIST SP 800-145 (Cloud Computing Definitions)

Tech20202020-09-02T05:39:50+00:00Categories: Network Administration, Network Security, Standards and Agreements|Tags: Cloud Computing Definitions, Community cloud, cyber security, Firewall, Hybrid Cloud, IaaS, Infrastructure as a service, Network Security, NIST, PaaS, platform as a service, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, SaaS, software as a service, SP 800-145|

Recent our posts were about NIST SP 800-137 and NIST SP 800-53A. In this post, we are going to review NIST SP 800-145. The title of this article is: Evaluation of Cloud Computing Services. This publication published in 2010. The PDF file of this publication consists of 32 pages and 7 chapters. These chapters are: Chapter [...]

What’s DLP?

Tech20202020-08-24T08:51:40+00:00Categories: Network Security|Tags: Anti-malware, cyber crime, Data Leak Prevention, Data Leakage Prevention, Data Loss Prevention, DLP, Enterprise DLP, Firewall, HIPAA, IDS, Integrated DLP, intrusion prevention systems, PCI DSS, Phishing, Phishing Attack, PII|

Data loss refers to an event in which important data is lost to the enterprise, such as in a ransomware attack. Data loss prevention (DLP) focuses on preventing illicit transfer of data outside organizational boundaries. Data loss prevention is a set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, [...]

Penetration Testing

Tech20202020-09-24T10:36:23+00:00Categories: Network Security|Tags: Black box pen test, blind pen test, clear-box pen test, Cyber Attacks, cyber crime, cyber security, CyberSecurity, External pen test, Firewall, Gray box pen test, internal pen test, IPS, ITperfection, logic-driven pen test, Network Security, open-box pen test, PCI DSS, Penetration Testing, Phishing Attack, Silverlight, Targeted Pen test, White box pen test|

A penetration test (pen test or pentest and or ethical hacking) is a simulated cyber-attack against a computer system to check for exploitable vulnerabilities. You should not be confused it with a vulnerability assessment. Source: en.wikipedia.org In fact, this test simulates a real-world attack to determine how any defenses will fare and the possible magnitude [...]

pfSense Firewall

Tech20202020-09-11T12:53:04+00:00Categories: Anti-malware & Firewalls, Network Security|Tags: BGP, Cyber Attacks, cyber crime, cyber security, CyberSecurity, Firewall, FreeBSD, GLBA, HIPAA, IPsec VPN, IPv4, IPv6, ITperfection, L2TP VPN, NAT, Network Attacks, Network Security, Next-Generation Firewall, Open VPN, PCI DSS, pfSense Firewall, SFP+ cable, SOX, Stateful packet filtering, XG-7100 1U|

We have already published posts about firewalls and also hardware firewalls. In this post, we'll take a look at pfsense firewalls to help you understand the different aspects of pfsense firewalls. pfSense is an open source firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. This firewall developed by Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate). It is installed on [...]

IPS and IDS

Tech20202020-11-04T10:51:12+00:00Categories: Network Security|Tags: Cyber Attacks, cyber security, DDoS attack, DoS attack, Firewall, HIDS, HIPS, Host Intrusion Detection System, Host-based IPS, IDS, intrusion detection systems, intrusion prevention systems, IPS, ITperfection, Malware, Network Attacks, Network Behavior Analysis, Network Intrusion Detection System, Network Security, Network-based IPS, NIDS, NIPS, WIPS, Wireless IPS|

Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events occurring in network and analyzing them for signs of possible incidents, violations, or imminent threats to security policies. These security measures are available as intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS). At result, IDS and IPS are both parts of the network infrastructure. IDS and [...]