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The state of network security in organizations with 1000+ employees

Issued by: Help Net Security

Security team size at the largest organizations does not scale with the number of overall employees, but they are more likely to include staff with specialized roles, say the results of the latest survey conducted by Osterman Research in partnership with ProtectWise. The similarities They interviewed 400 security analysts in the US to uncover the…

Network Security

Know what’s happening on your network and make the most of your security tools

Issued by: Help Net Security

In an ideal world, all organizations would know at all times exactly what’s happening on their network: they would have deep enough pockets to buy the equipment and engage the personnel necessary to achieve this knowledge, no matter how much the speed and size of their network increases. In this world, though, budgetary constraints force…

Malware & Threats

How Will You Face the High Price of DDoS Attacks?

Issued by: Security Intelligence

The largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurred in the spring of 2018. The attack lasted more than eight minutes and measured 1.3 Tbps, according to Threatpost. But it’s a record no one in the security industry expects to last long, as DDoS attacks continue to increase in length, strength and damage. This type of…

Network Security

Keep Intruders Out of Your Network With Proactive Threat Hunting

Issued by: Security Intelligence

A threat hunting program can provide an accurate picture of where your organization is exposed to threats and help security professionals strengthen those weaknesses. If you know how an adversary is breaking into your environment, you can improve your defenses and stop attacks from happening again in the future. This echoes the importance of having…

Network Security

Getting Ahead of SD-WAN Security With the Zero Trust Model

Issued by: Security Intelligence

As businesses across the world become more geographically diverse and move toward an increasingly hybrid IT environment, legacy infrastructure is struggling to keep up. With more data flowing over enterprise networks from multiple sources, the demand for software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology is growing exponentially. A report from IDC predicted that this technology will…

Network Security

A Brief History of Computing: As Technology Evolves, Cybersecurity Lags Behind

Issued by: Security Intelligence

Security isn’t what it used to be, especially in the area of computing. It has become far more ephemeral, less obvious and much more important. To keep pace with the evolving threat landscape, we all need to reset our expectations about what cybersecurity actually is in today’s world and look carefully at what it might…

Network Security

Key causes of network outages and vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

A new global study, conducted by Dimensional Research, surveyed 315 network professionals about their experiences with network outages, vulnerabilities and compliance. Among the report’s findings, there is almost universal agreement that human factors lead to network outages, and in many cases these outages are quite frequent.

Application Security

The November 2016 Security Update Review

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

Adobe released two updates this month. The more critical of the two patches addresses nine CVEs in the Flash player. This comes just two weeks after Adobe issued an emergency Flash update to fix an issue currently being exploited. We’ll see this exploit later in a Windows update, too. Today’s Flash update is not being…

Application Security, Network Security

Video: Take Back Control of Your Information Security

Issued by: IKANOW

The numbers are staggering. PWC reported there were 60 million information security attacks on enterprises last year and CyberEdge Group found over 70% of all companies were breached. The attack surface has expanded rapidly as the number of managed devices increased another 72% over 2014 according to Cisco. According to IBM and CSO, the typical…