Field notes from building and defending business networks. What actually holds up under load, what quietly breaks at 2 a.m., and the trade-offs nobody mentions until after the outage. Written for the people who run the gear, not necessarily the ones who sign the purchase order.
Most small and mid-size businesses are more exposed than they realize. Here are five foundational controls that dramatically reduce your attack surface.
Traditional firewalls enforce network topology. NGFWs enforce security. The gap between them is the difference between visibility and blindness against modern threats.
If you don't do business in a country, there's no reason for its traffic to reach your network. Here's how to enforce that — and the hard truth about why US-origin traffic isn't automatically safe.
Healthcare, finance, legal, retail, and manufacturing are the most targeted industries for data theft. Here's what exfiltration looks like, why attackers want what your business holds, and how the threat has evolved.
68% of breaches involve the human element. Most don't start with a sophisticated hack — they start with one employee clicking the wrong email. Here's what effective security training actually looks like.