Tag: internet security

March 5, 2024

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 […]

October 24, 2023

Dependency and trust have a complicated relationship, and that’s especially true with regard to enterprise views on networks. If you ask enterprise executives what network service has been the most transformational for their business, almost 100% will say “the internet.” […]

May 9, 2023

For CISOs, the sad truth is that it’s no longer a matter of if an organization will be breached, but when. According to AV-Test, more than 1 million new malware programs have been discovered in 2023 alone. What’s more, with […]

November 29, 2022

Having thorough IT security usually means having a layered approach. Basic antivirus, for instance, might catch PC-based malware once a user downloads it, but you could try to block it before it ever reaches the user device, or at least […]

May 21, 2021

In early May, fitness company Peloton announced that it had exposed customer account data on the internet. Anyone could access users’ account data from Peloton’s servers, even if the users set their account profiles as private. The cause: a faulty […]

March 29, 2021

Being the backbone of the internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol has undergone a series of improvements and enhancements over the past few years. The lack of stringent protections in the original DNS specification and discovery of security weaknesses […]

October 15, 2020

Cryptography is the science of keeping information secure by transforming it into form that unintended recipients cannot understand. In cryptography, an original human readable message, referred to as plaintext, is changed by means of an algorithm, or series of mathematical […]

December 12, 2019

Making cybersecurity predictions is fun, but not necessarily helpful to security professionals who must decide which threats for which they should be the most prepared. “You can’t really make a good prediction about what the future’s going to hold because […]

January 31, 2019

If there is one technology that best protects internet users from scammers, hackers and nation-state threat actors it’s encryption. Fortunately, the web is currently undergoing a massive transformation from a non-secure HTTP format, the initial underlying protocol for all communications […]

January 23, 2019

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a non-profit organization that puts forth security benchmarks and checklists. Recently as noted in the Microsoft Secure blog, CIS released its CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark version 1.0.0. It includes two levels of […]

March 20, 2017

The Internet is all-encompassing. Between mobile devices and work computers, we live our lives on it — but our online existence has been tragically compromised by inadequate security. Any determined hacker can eavesdrop on what we say, impersonate us, and […]

February 21, 2017

Like mobile and cloud, blockchain — first implemented in the original source code of bitcoin in 2009 — stands poised to profoundly disrupt business. If it lives up to its promise, it won’t just be financial institutions that are disrupted. […]

August 8, 2016

Allot Communications, Tuesday announced its collaboration with Intel Security to introduce McAfee Unified Security to deliver comprehensive security protection combining Allot’s multi-tenant network-based security platform and McAfee’s endpoint protection. The joint Allot and Intel Security solution blends advanced threat detection […]

May 13, 2016

A new incubating project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) promises a more secure Internet that doesn’t require monolithic trust hierarchies and centralized certificate authorities. And it could eliminate the need for complex passwords, too. At ApacheCon North America in […]