You know that firewalls exist in both as software and as hardware devices. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. In general, the use of software firewalls for home use, personal use and small businesses is recommended, as well as the use of hardware firewalls for medium and large businesses. To read: All things about firewall [...]
This post is about Cisco Firewalls. It aggregates available information from datasheets published by Cisco. The ASA in Cisco ASA stands for Adaptive Security Appliance. We suggest that you read the following two posts before continuing to read this post: All Things about Firewall Hardware Firewalls In fact, Cisco ASA is a security device that combines [...]
So far, we have introduced and reviewed several software packages for network monitoring in our posts. In this post, we are going to discuss another powerful software package: Veeam ONE. Veeam ONE, part of Veeam Availability Suite, provides comprehensive monitoring and analytics for your backup, virtual and physical environments. Veeam ONE enables real-time monitoring, business [...]
This post presents How to comply with PCI DSS. This article is a summary from of the pcisecuritystandards.org website. With the following link: PCI DSS Quick Reference Guide For more info please refer to pcisecuritystandards.org We recommend you that before continuing, read this post. Each payment card brand maintains its own separate compliance enforcement programs [...]
A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network. In other words, A Virtual Private Network is a connection method used to add security and privacy [...]
In this post we are going to talk about technical Safeguards. This post is the fourth post in the HIPAA series. This series of posts is called the HIPAA Series. The series will contain seven post: Security 101 for Covered Entities Security Standards: Administrative Safeguards Security Standards: Physical Safeguards Security Standards: technical Safeguards Security Standards- [...]
In this post we are going to talk about Administrative Safeguard. This post is the second post in the HIPAA series. This series of posts is called the HIPAA Series. The series will contain seven post: Security 101 for Covered Entities Security Standards: Administrative Safeguards Security Standards: Physical Safeguards Security Standards: technical Safeguards Security Standards- [...]
In this post, we talked about the types of hackers. One of them is ethical hacker. We discuss about the five steps of ethical hacking now. Of course, not necessarily a hacker has to follow these 5 steps in a sequential manner: Note: Hacking is illegal. The only purpose of hacking is to secure [...]
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 [...]