First Line of Defence for your Cloud

First Line of Defence for your Cloud | First Line of Defence

Firewall provided by public cloud service providers is not sufficient to protect the workload running on cloud infrastructure. A recent cloud computing security study conducted by the Poneman Institute and sponsored by Dome9 reveals that 67 percent of IT professionals claim their organization is left vulnerable to hackers due to lax cloud port and firewall […]

The First Step in Securing your Cloud Infrastructure

The first step in securing your Cloud Infrastructure | First Line of Defence

Cloud Security & Visibility For businesses to capitalize on the wealth of opportunities the cloud brings, it’s therefore imperative that they have complete visibility into their entire hybrid cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure, and all the interrelationships between applications, protocols, networks and servers involved in service delivery. This will enable them to assure efficiency and optimize […]

The 4 Pillars of Cloud Security

The 4 Pillars of Cloud Security | First Line of Defence

Enterprises today work with a massive volume of sensitive data and also perform various operations with this data. The move to the cloud has changed all aspects of the application development lifecycle – security being foremost among them. Security and DevOps teams face a growing number of entities to secure as the organization adopts cloud-native […]

Cloud Security and it’s Risks

Cloud Security and its Risks | First Line of Defence

Even though the cloud is promoted as more secure than ever today, companies are experiencing an increasing number of data breaches. Introduction “Cloud” refers to the hosted resources delivered to a user via software. Cloud computing infrastructures—along with all the data being processed—are dynamic, scalable, and portable. Cloud security, also known as cloud computing security, refers […]

How to Mitigate Endpoint Security Risks Exposures

How to mitigate Endpoint Security Risks | First Line of Defence

The COVID-19 Pandemic has changed everything about the way we work. Securing your networks now will pay dividends long into the future because cybercriminals aren’t going away. Amidst this extended global lockdowns, measured relaxation & economic crashes, one of the major impacts of the virus has gone slightly overlooked: with millions of workers worldwide now […]

Endpoint Security: XDR AI-based Automated Threat Detection & Response

Endpoint Security XDR AI based automated threat detection response | First Line of Defence

As the volume and variety of endpoints grow, traditional signature-based and pre-programmed methods for security and anti-malware struggle to keep up. Not only are devices proliferating, but threat types and false positives are too — not to mention the diverse ways attacks can manifest. As organizations scramble to keep pace with both the value and risks of […]

Why SASE?

Organizations are increasing software-as-a-service use, hybrid cloud infrastructure deployments, and multi-cloud deployment and interconnectivity. Whether oriented toward end-user access to applications and services or traditional data center access to branch offices and other remote locations, the need to make traditional data centers the hub of connectivity is more of a hindrance than ever before. To […]

Replace Proxy Firewalls with Cloud Delivered​ Security

Replace Proxy Firewalls with Cloud delivered Security | First Line of Defence

Proxy-based firewalls or web proxies have been considered an essential security component for some time now, but the question remains: Can proxies really help keep users safe?The first proxy-based firewalls achieved the basic task of controlling which websites users could access on the Internet. Since then, the technology has developed and evolved to provide additional […]

Integrated DevOps Security by PaloAlto

Integrated DevOps Security by PaloAlto | First Line of Defence

Why does it seem so hard to consistently deploy secure application infrastructure in the public cloud? Gartner predicts that by 2025, 99% of cloud security breaches will be the customer’s fault. The majority of the problems stem from the insecure configuration of application infrastructure and vulnerabilities in container images. Why does it seem so hard […]