Security is more important than ever. Cybersecurity has been a problem from the start of IT and it will be till the end. It all started with endpoint and network security, but today, we are also facing with cloudsecurity and managing employees to incorporate good security practices.
All these new technologies that help us innovate also helps cybercriminals and state sponsored hackers to get new tools they can use to get access to our systems, and in a worst case scenario, access to our most valuable data and business secrets. Also, with new legislation in place like GDPR, you need to make sure everything is secure, otherwise you just don’t lose your reputation, but you can also be fined by the government. Protecting IT-environments is more important than ever.
Your first line of defense is usually endpoint protection. The devices your employees work with need to be protected against ransomware and other malware which can bring lots and lots of trouble. This nowadays the most basic form of protection and many of the bigger vendors and suites can help you achieve this.
Network security is a bit more advanced, where you can manage which traffic goes across your network. You can also connect different networks together with e.g. SD-WAN. So, you can run protection software and share data between multiple locations. The trend we see in network protection on the datacenter side is to lock down the traffic by only allowing known, benevolent traffic sources. Regarding office networking, we see new initiatives like ZScaler coming up, where you tunnel all your staff over the network of ZScaler so they can analyse the traffic and block patterns that they marked as malicious. Especially for companies with employees that travel a lot, this is a smart solution.
Many thought that bringing workloads to the cloud would reduce their responsibility of doing security. It is now clear that this is not the case. Most cloud vendors practice the “shared responsibility” approach. This means that big hyperscalers can offer a first line of defense against well known threats and port scanners. For the more sophisticated attacks that are directly pointed at your servers, you need to have your protection in place.
Research by ESET shows that more than a billion devices were at risk due to a security problem with WiFi chips. iPhones and Samsung Galaxy smartphones, among others, were vulnerable due to the error, which resulted in heaps of data on the streets to be picked up free of charge by cyber criminals. ... Read more
4 years ago
General availability has been announced for the Microsoft Azure Sphere security service, aimed at protecting IoT (Internet of Things) devices. Until now, the service was only available in a preview. The company introduced Azure Sphere, which is based on a Microsoft-built Linux operating system, ... Read more
4 years ago
Buying login data through the Genesis Store was, for a long time, largely possible through a malware strain called AZORult. Ninety percent of acquired credentials would be captured using that specific malware, after which Google took action: with Chrome 80, the malware will no longer work. Resea... Read more
4 years ago
CrowdStrike has added enhanced support for Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and containers in Crowdstrike Falcon, to better serve businesses with multi-cloud environments. Falcon is used by organisations to protect cloud environments, servers, employee devices and other endpoints. The enhanced clo... Read more
4 years ago
BlackBerry has announced the next version of the BlackBerry Spark Platform. The next generation of the platform includes a new Unified Endpoint Security (UES) layer which should work with any Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) system. BlackBerry's goal is to achieve a 'One Agent, One Console, One... Read more
4 years ago
According to FireEye, becoming a victim of a cyber attack is still common enough, but the company found that such attacks are being detected more and more quickly. According to the company, the reason for this is the use of stricter regulations regarding data collection, such as the General Data Pr... Read more
4 years ago
Fortinet has made the new version of the FortiOS operating system generally available, version 6.4. The release comes with 350 new features, with a strong focus on automation, and building on integrations. More artificial intelligence (AI) can now be found in the operating system. With this, For... Read more
4 years ago
Not only versions of Microsoft Windows have security tools, including Threat Protection, Insider Risk Management and Defender, also Linux has the possibility to install this security as of this week. Microsoft is also planning to roll out the tools for iOS and Android later this year. The arriva... Read more
4 years ago
Dell will sell RSA Security to a group of investment firms led by Symphony Technology Group. The transaction is valued at just over two billion dollars (1.8 billion euros). Earlier, we wrote that the acquisition was imminent, now it is clear that it will definitely go ahead. The divestment will ... Read more
4 years ago
A warning from the U.S. government: tech giant Huawei would use a backdoor in Germany's network to listen in on conversations. The German authorities inform the German media that the allegations have been received with a raised eyebrow. The authorities are of the opinion that hard evidence is la... Read more
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