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TRENDING STORY

The Role of Firewall in Ensuring

Network Security

A Firewall is responsible for the security of a network, as it monitors both incoming
and outgoing traffic and takes the decision whether to allow the traffic or not. This
decision is taken based on a set of rules defined by or for the company. Hence, it isn’t
incorrect to say that a Firewall is the first set of defense mechanisms that threat
actors encounter. It plays a crucial role in preventing threat actors from acting.
In light of the above fact, Digitaltech Media interacted with leading Firewall vendors

to gauge the growth, challenges, and solutions available in the Firewall industry.

How big is the across 26 countries for increased network procedures (TTPs) to
Firewall-as-a-Service were hit by ransomware security. become more evasive
Market in India? in 2019. In India, “At the high end, and nation-state-like in
A Sophos study 82 percent of the the big-game hunting sophistication, targeting
found that more organizations surveyed ransomware families larger organizations
than one-half of admitted to being hit by will continue to refine with multimillion-dollar
organizations surveyed ransomware, reiterating and change their ransom demands,”
the heightened need tactics, techniques, and reiterated Sunil Sharma,
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