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Automated Patch Management: Definition, Tools & How It Works

eSecurity Planet

Automated patch management can help prevent security breaches by automatically identifying, downloading, testing, and delivering software and firmware updates to devices and applications through the use of specialized software tools. The tools sometimes include a rollback function in case a patch causes unexpected problems.

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What Is Packet Filtering? Definition, Advantages & How It Works

eSecurity Planet

Rules may consult static ACLs defined by admins or integrate dynamically with active directory, identity and access management (IAM), or privileged access management (PAM) tools. However, many attackers evade packet filtering, so this protection must integrate into a deeper security stack of features or tools to provide robust protection.

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What Is a Circuit-Level Gateway? Definitive Guide

eSecurity Planet

Use CLGs to improve the performance of other security tools by quickly decreasing the number of packets to analyze for deeper and much slower analysis. Definitive Guide appeared first on eSecurity Planet. Fortunately, these capabilities fit in nicely into a security stack of other features and solutions.

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What is Tailgating? Definition, Examples & Prevention

IT Governance

In those cases, video surveillance is a helpful tool. Definition, Examples & Prevention appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. There are some industries where employees are required to move regularly between public and employee-only spaces, and it would hinder business if they were forced to constantly lock or unlock doors.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Living Off the Land Attacks: LOTL Definition & Prevention

eSecurity Planet

5 Best Practices for Preventing LOTL Attacks How to Recover from Living Off the Land Attacks What Tools Help Defend Against LOTL Attacks? How Living off the Land Attacks Work Living off the land attacks originate within a valid computer program, like script-writing software or a command line tool.

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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

As that definition spans the cloud and data centers, and on-premises, mobile and web users, application security needs to encompass a range of best practices and tools. Automated testing uses tools and scripts to automate security-related tasks, processes, and assessment of an application.