You're navigating the world of Network Security. What emerging trends should you be mindful of?

Navigating Network Security requires awareness of emerging trends such as: 1. Zero Trust Architecture: Focus on verifying every user and device accessing the network. 2. AI and Machine Learning: Utilize for threat detection, response automation, and predictive analytics. 3. Cloud Security: Addressing security for cloud-based services and infrastructure 4. IoT Security: Protecting the growing number of connected devices 5. Ransomware Defense: Enhanced measures to prevent and respond to ransomware attacks 6. Quantum Cryptography: Preparing for the future impact of quantum computing on encryption. 7. 5G Security: Addressing new vulnerabilities introduced by 5G networks. Stay informed and adaptable to these trends for robust network security.

The Internet is not safe enough for employees to use. SASE extends the security perimeter of the office into the employee's home. Every link your employees click, every dns look up they do, Every website they visit is valuable data to a competitor or an attacker that should NEVER travel accross the internet. Implement a secure approach with SASE, ZERO TRUST, 2FA to every employee device wherever they are! Implement a secure cloud based gateway for all traffic.

AI and ML are being used to develop new security tools that can detect and respond to threats more quickly and effectively.

As more businesses move their data and applications to the cloud, securing cloud environments is becoming increasingly important.

Ransomware thieves exploitation of open layer 2 networks turning 1 penetration into thousands and millions in seconds have lead to advancements in telemetry tracking of data previously ignored and trusted. We have realized the problem obtaining true Zero Trust is impossible when your foundation of your network is a house built on sand. The only way to fix this is to drill down to the bedrock and fix what is broken with layer 2, TRUST. The open trust of communications on layer 2 lead Nile to design purpose built hardware to remove layer 2 and proxy all your connections to be available and inspected by firewalls and SSE providers. There is ZERO Lateral Movement through a Nile network without authorization. Without Nile, Zero Trust is DE:AD.

Zero trust is a security model that assumes no user or device is inherently trustworthy. This means that all users and devices must be authenticated and authorized before they are granted access to a network or resource.

When thinking about network security, one shouldn't just think of inline protection. A lot of network security intelligence can be obtained outside the data path e.g. patterns of DNS queries/responses from an infected machine. IP reputation has shown to be ineffective when known good IP blocks get hijacked by spammers and malicious actors. DNS caches do get poisoned. DDoS attacks have been launched by open DNS resolvers. New network architectures (such as SDNs and cloud deployments) do have their own weaknesses. Attackers have hijacked network traffic by exploiting some old BGP vulnerabilities.