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If you've got an application which faces the web, no one would dispute that you should probably have a web application firewall sitting in front of it. Web apps, after all, are the leading cause of security breaches, and the web application firewall is first line of defence, preventing bad actors getting in in the first place, and then leaving with whatever goodies they've found.

Secure access service edge and network-as-a-service provider Perimeter 81, announced Tuesday a new Firewall-as-a-Service offering designed to enhance the company's SASE platform. Perimeter 81's Network Traffic Control offering is aimed at securing the network perimeter and builds upon the company's SASE offering, which includes its Zero Trust Network Access, Zero Trust Application Access, and DNS Filtering products.

New research by FireEye's Mandiant cyber forensics arm has now revealed a previously unknown persistence mechanism that shows the adversaries made use of BITS to launch the backdoor. Introduced in Windows XP, BITS is a component of Microsoft Windows, which makes use of idle network bandwidth to facilitate the asynchronous transfer of files between machines.

A web application firewall is your first line of defence when it comes to protecting your organization from an array of potential threats. By filtering out the content scrapers, bots, and other web creepy-crawlies, you can remove their impact on your infrastructure reduce the overall cost of maintaining your web presence.

In a bid to replace MPLS circuits and SD-WAN appliances, Cloudflare has introduced Magic WAN and Magic Firewall and partnerships with VMware, Aruba, Digital Realty, CoreSite and EdgeConneX. Cloudflare Monday introduced Magic WAN with Magic Firewall as well as new strategic partnerships with network hardware and data center providers as part of Cloudflare One, its cloud-based network-as-a-service offering released in October 2020. Magic WAN connects any source of data traffic-data centers, offices, devices, cloud apps, etc.

Cloudflare introduced Magic WAN with Magic Firewall and new strategic partnerships with major networking and data center providers as part of Cloudflare One, its cloud-based network-as-a-service solution. Magic WAN with Magic Firewall gives customers of all sizes a one-stop-shop to connect and secure data, devices, offices, cloud networks, and more without relying on hardware boxes.

Germany-based cybersecurity company Genua has fast-tracked a fix for a critical flaw in one of its firewall products. Affected by the critical flaws is the GenuGate High Resistance Firewall, which Genua touts as a two-tier firewall that includes an application-level gateway and a packet filter for blocking malicious data.

A critical vulnerability discovered in a firewall appliance made by Germany-based cybersecurity company Genua could be useful to threat actors once they've gained access to an organization's network, according to Austrian cybersecurity consultancy SEC Consult. Genua Genugate is a firewall designed for protecting internal networks against external threats, segmenting internal networks, and protecting machine-to-machine communications.

Microsoft has unveiled a preview of Azure Firewall Premium, aimed at highly sensitive and regulated environments. Azure Firewall was Microsoft's attempt to sling a virtual arm over the shoulders of harassed administrators while whispering "There now, don't worry about all that pesky firewall configuration stuff, let us take care of it" in its most seductive tone.

Microsoft has announced that the new Premium tier for its managed cloud-based network security service Azure Firewall has entered public preview starting today. The Azure Firewall Premium public preview adds new capabilities required by highly sensitive and regulated environments.