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 How to Deploy an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): A Practical Guide Deploying an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) isn’t just a technical requirement—it’s a strategic step toward strengthening your organization’s overall security posture. An IPS can proactively detect and block threats before they impact business operations. But to make an IPS effective, you need a structured approach. 🔍 1. Analysis Phase – Laying the Foundation Before touching any tools or configurations, it’s important to understand your environment. ✔️ Define what to protect Identify critical assets such as servers, applications, sensitive data, and network segments. ✔️ Define and classify threats Map potential attacks that could target your environment—malware, brute-force attacks, DDoS, insider threats, etc. ✔️ Define where IPS should be deployed Decide optimal placement—at the perimeter, data center core, internal segments, or cloud environments. This phase ensures clarity, helping you deploy an...

 Cisco SD-WAN revolutionizes network management by decoupling the control and management planes from WAN edge routers, centralizing them in software-based controllers. This architectural shift improves security, availability, and scalability, making Cisco SD-WAN a preferred choice for managing large and distributed networks. In this blog post, we’ll explore the roles of vEdge routers and the SD-WAN controllers, namely vSmart, vManage, and vBond, each of which interacts with WAN edge devices in unique ways to ensure secure, streamlined, and reliable control connections. Control Connections and Security Protocols Each vEdge router establishes secure control connections to SD-WAN controllers using DTLS or TLS protocols. DTLS, which operates over UDP, is the default protocol due to its efficiency and speed, while TLS, running over TCP, provides slightly enhanced reliability. These protocols create secured tunnels that shield the control plane protocols (such as OMP, NETCONF, and SNMP) ...

Prepare Data for Exploration: Weekly challenge 4 1 . Question 1 A data analytics team labels its files to indicate their content, creation date, and version number. The team is using what data organization tool? 1 / 1  point File-naming verifications File-naming references File-naming conventions File-naming attributes Correct 2 . Question 2 Your boss assigns you a new multi-phase project and you create a naming convention for all of your files. With this project lasting years and incorporating multiple analysts it’s crucial that you create data explaining how your naming conventions are structured. What is this data called? 0 / 1  point Descriptive data Named convention Metadata Labeled data Incorrect Please review the video on naming conventions . 3 . Question 3 A grocery store is collecting inventory data from their produce section. What is an appropriate naming convention for this file? 0 / 1  point Todays_Produce Produce_Inventory_2022-0...