Author: The CISO Perspective

January 7, 2025

Next-Gen Firewall Evasion: Five Defensive Techniques

Introduction So you have this highly sophisticated and powerful firewall on your network with all the bells and whistles turned on. And considering how much…
December 7, 2024

Virtual Network Function (VNF): Five Considerations Before Virtualing Your Perimeter

VNF, or Virtualized Network Function, refers to the process of virtualizing traditional networking and security functions into services. In practical terms, this means running several…
November 7, 2024

5 Steps To Securing Your SD-WAN

Gartner predicts that by 2023, 93% of organizations will be doing some form of SDWAN for the WAN edge. And the reasons for this disruption…
October 3, 2024

ATT&CK Matrix: The Enemies Playbook

The ATT&CK framework developed by MITRE expands on the last three steps of the kill chain by giving us twelve more granular categories to replace…
September 19, 2024

Securing Your AWS VPC With a Next-Gen Firewall

The AWS shared responsibility models states that the customer is responsible for security in the cloud.In this article, we’ll go over some VPC basics -…
August 31, 2024

Accomplishing Zero Trust Security using SDP

Zero trust Security is an architecture for today’s modern networks. New technologies like the Software Defined Perimeter have finally brought the concept to reality.
July 13, 2024

Next-Gen Firewall Sizing: 5 Things to Look For

An undersized firewall can be catastrophic to your network performance, availability and security posture. As the gatekeeper of what goes in and out of your…
April 22, 2024

8 Endpoint Security Considerations For Your Next-Gen AV – Part 2

Post detection tools like EDR, UEBA and Sandboxing are all NextGen features that will soon become stables in endpoint protection suite.
March 16, 2024

8 Endpoint Security Considerations For Your Next-Gen AV – Part 1

Malware evasion techniques and file-less malware has made the traditional AV obsolete. Next-Gen features are becoming a requirement.
November 7, 2023

The Iran Cyber Threat: What You Need To Know

On Monday, Jan 6th, DHS warned US organizations about potential cyber-attacks from Iran and Iran-backed APT groups. The CISA alert was the first public acknowledgment…