Jul 14, 2016
LinkedIn, Sony, the Clinton Foundation and many other companies have all been in the headlines for the past few years because they have been hacked – and users’ details disseminated. The usual response to this sort of attack is for companies to increase...
Jul 13, 2016
NSS Lab’s recent Data Centre Intrusion Prevention System (DCIPS) report and its Security Value Map reveals that Fortinet’s FortiGate 3000D earned the highest ratings for Security Effectiveness, blocking 99,9% of exploits, and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)...
Jul 12, 2016
A few years from now someone will start writing the history of advanced, highly sophisticated cyber threats, writes Ovanes Mikhaylov, MD: emerging markets at Kaspersky Lab. This person will obviously start with Stuxnet, and go through the findings of campaigns like...
Jul 11, 2016
As cyber criminals become more tactical, moving away from the ‘spray and pray approach’ to more focused and targeted attacks, visibility and scrubbed traffic become essential components of a security strategy for protecting companies, writes Martin...
Jul 6, 2016
The ‘Nigerian Prince’ or ‘419’ email scams we’ve all seen take advantage of the age-old premise: people can be greedy and gullible. Or to put it more positively – people are intrinsically positive about the motives of others and are...
Jul 5, 2016
Almost 80% of industrial security incidents in critical infrastructure organisations are caused by unintentional internal issues such as software misconfigurations from human error and malfunctioning network protocols, according to Fortinet. Critical infrastructure...