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Building a Zero Trust network with security-first, AI-powered networking

March 14, 2024

Via: Network World

Innovation can be a revenue driver, yet tension between innovation and risk may negatively impact an organization’s ability to innovate, according to research published by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The report, The innovation vs. risk conundrum, revealed that organizations with a […]


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Law Enforcement Agencies Boost Efficiency through Graphiant’s Cutting-Edge Network Solution

March 13, 2024

Via: The Fast Mode

Graphiant, a provider of next-generation edge services, today announces a successful collaboration with Rampart CIO, a municipal cybersecurity consulting firm. Rampart CIO works with a municipality in South Carolina that faced the challenge of securely transmitting end-to-end encrypted communication from […]


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Infineon, Kudelski IoT Collaborate to Boost Smart Home Device Safety

March 13, 2024

Via: The Fast Mode

Kudelski IoT, a leader in digital security and IoT solutions, and Infineon Technologies AG, a global semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT, today announced a security solution with a Matter provisioning service for the smart home and smart building […]


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Chinese espionage a prime concern for connected vehicles

March 12, 2024

Via: CSO Online

On February 29, US President Joe Biden announced “unprecedented actions to ensure that cars on US roads from countries of concern like China do not undermine our national security.” He asked the Commerce Department to launch an advanced rulemaking (ANPRM) […]


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Remote work keeps driving network innovation

March 11, 2024

Via: Network World

The Covid-19 pandemic drove a wide swath of the economy into work-from-home and hybrid environments, and now many corporations are pushing employees to come back to the office fulltime. In recent ResumeBuilder survey of 1,000 corporate decision makers, 90% of […]


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Neterra sees 100% increase in DDoS attacks blocked in 2023

March 8, 2024

Via: Data Centre & Network News

Neterra has defended its clients from a record number of DDoS attacks in 2023. The company mitigated a total of 963,346 DDoS attacks and handled over 6.6PB of malicious traffic. Out of the total attacks, approximately 231,358 were of high […]


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Cisco Talos: 3 post-compromise tactics that threaten your network infrastructure

March 7, 2024

Via: Network World

The bad actors who are perpetrating advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks aren’t just looking to access your network. They want to sneak in and hang around to collect valuable data or lay plans for future attacks. Post-compromise threats are growing, […]


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The Risks of Using an Unsecured Network and the Best Way to Protect Your Users and Company

March 5, 2024

Via: Network Computing

An unsecured network is a network without security protections. In other words, you don’t need a userID or a password to sign onto an unsecured network. There are no network authorizations for access needed, and there are no built-in security […]


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6 reasons why a secure advanced SD-WAN is critical to SASE

February 29, 2024

Via: Network World

Gartner says that “By 2026, 60% of new SD-WAN purchases will be part of a single-vendor secure access service edge (SASE) offering, up from 15% in 2022.”1 But, what if SD-WAN was not part of SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)? […]


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Top cybersecurity salaries shoot past $780k

February 29, 2024

Via: CSO Online

The top 10% of cybersecurity professionals in the US drew as much as $783,000 on average in 2023, according to according to a joint IANS and Artico Search study. Although well-compensated, cybersecurity roles are often multifunctional, and typical functional combinations […]


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Three new advanced threat groups targeted industrial organizations last year

February 28, 2024

Via: CSO Online

Industrial organizations that own operational technology (OT) assets were targeted by three new advanced threat groups last year. In total, industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos tracked 10 OT-focused threat groups that had active operations in 2023, but attacks from hacktivists and […]


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How will AI change the security operations center?

February 27, 2024

Via: CSO Online

Cyberattacks are scaling up. That means security operations center (SOC) teams are overwhelmed by the volume of alerts they must analyze and how to sort out real threats vs. system noise. The good news? Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to […]


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3 guiding principles of data security in the AI era

February 27, 2024

Via: CSO Online

AI hype and adoption are seemingly at an all-time high with nearly 70% of respondents to a recent S&P report on Global AI Trends saying they have at least one AI project in production. While the promise of AI can […]


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Broadcom repackages VMware SASE, adds Symantec security

February 27, 2024

Via: Network World

Broadcom wasted little time putting an old stamp on newly integrated VMware product – VMware VeloCloud SASE, secured by Symantec – aimed at helping customers secure highly distributed network resources. The single-vendor SASE offering revives VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN branding and […]


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The Increasing Trend of Consolidation in the IT and Cybersecurity World

February 27, 2024

Via: Network Computing

In recent years, the world of IT and Cybersecurity has seen a notable trend toward consolidation. Naturally, most people point to shrinking budgets as the driver behind this. After all, a new report from IANS Research and Artico Search found […]


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IBM X-Force: Stolen credentials a top risk to network infrastructure

February 22, 2024

Via: Network World

Attacks on critical network infrastructure are increasing, according to a report from IBM’s threat intelligence unit, X-Force. “Worldwide, nearly 70% of attacks that X-Force responded to were against critical infrastructure organizations, an alarming finding highlighting that cybercriminals are wagering on […]


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Identity hacking saw sharp rise 2023

February 22, 2024

Via: CSO Online

Threat actors, frequently frustrated by improved enterprise security systems, increased their efforts to compromise credentials in 2023, according to CrowdStrike’s 10th annual global threat report released Wednesday. “Threat actors are running into EDR products out there that are making it […]


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Report ranks sustainable edge strategies for telco providers

February 15, 2024

Via: Data Centre & Network News

To help telco providers navigate sustainability at the edge, STL Partners has released a new report, Sustainability Insights: Navigating Sustainable Edge Strategies. The report finds that advanced edge sustainability strategies can reduce telco providers’ energy usage by 3% to 5% […]


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Will generative AI kill KYC authentication?

February 14, 2024

Via: CSO Online

For decades, the financial sector and other industries have relied on an authentication mechanism dubbed “know your customer” (KYC), a process that confirms a person’s identity when opening account and then periodically confirming that identity overtime. KYC typically involves a […]


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Nation-state threat actors using LLMs to boost cyber operations

February 14, 2024

Via: CSO Online

Nation-state groups Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, Charcoal Typhoon, and Salmon Typhoon are using large language models (LLMs) to improve and expand their criminal activities, according to findings from Microsoft Threat Intelligence Cyber Signals 2024, done in collaboration with […]