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Building and Managing an IT Security Operations ProgramAs cyber threats grow, many organizations are building security operations centers (SOCs) to improve their defenses. In this Tech Digest you will learn tips on how to get the most out of a SOC in your organization - and what to do if you can't afford to build one.
The State of IT Operations and Cybersecurity Operations
Your enterprise's cyber risk may depend upon the relationship between the IT team and the security team. Here’s some insight on what's working – and what isn't – in the data center.
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1/30/2019 | 3:40:31 PM
It may be fashionable to claim there is no longer a network perimeter but I still strongly favor using the border router as a "garbage filter".
The BOGONs list? - Drop them all. Invalid TCP flag combinations - Drop. No Telnet in your environment? No FTP? No RDP? - Block them all at the border router.
As mentioned in the post, the NGFW should take care of the deep packet inspection for only the traffic you potentially want inside your network. That firewall should see very little traffic except for the known IPs, ports and protocols which are candidates to be allowed all the way in.
And an outbound ACL (a.k.a. egress filtering) is a very powerful weapon against data exfiltration and many types of malware. You may still have a Trojan but if it can't phone home......