I’ll say it plainly: the best firewall in the world, configured perfectly, with the latest firmware and the tightest rules, is exactly as effective as a speed bump if nobody is watching it. A speed bump slows a car down. It doesn’t check if the driver has stolen the car. It doesn’t tell you where
Last year, our team audited 5,732 firewalls. That’s not a round number I picked for effect—that’s the actual count from our deployment and audit logs. FortiGates, Palo Altos, Sophos, Cisco ASAs, a few niche vendors. Enterprise data centres, bank branches, hospital campuses, manufacturing plants, multi-site retail chains. Every single one had at least one misconfiguration.
January 25, 2003. A Saturday. I was at my desk—because in cybersecurity, Saturdays are just Thursdays with better coffee. I’d been in the industry for about a decade at that point, running network operations. We’d seen worms before. Code Red. Nimda. The usual chaos. Nothing—and I mean nothing—prepared us for SQL Slammer. At 05:30 UTC,
If your endpoint security strategy hasn’t changed since 2024, you’re already behind. The threat landscape has shifted significantly, and the tools and approaches that worked two years ago are showing their age. Here’s what’s changed in endpoint security for 2026 — and what Indian enterprises need to be doing about it. The Old Model: Antivirus
