As Threats Become Increasingly Severe and Complex, NSFOCUS Urges Enterprises to Adopt an Intelligent Hybrid Security Strategy Santa Clara, Calif., September 12, 2016 – Cyber attacks aren’t slowing down – in fact, 76 percent of organizations have experienced a breach within the last two years. Enterprises of all sizes, across...
Author: NSFOCUS
ISMG Fraud and Breach Prevention Summit London
ISMG Fraud and Breach Prevention Summit London November 9, 2016 Venues Plus – Bank Street, Canary Wharf
Security in the Internet of Things Era
It’s not just laptops, phones, and tablets that are capable of connecting to the internet in today’s world. Technology has progressed to such an extent that seemingly ordinary items such as watches, refrigerators, cars, fire alarms, yard tools, ovens, and even toys like Cabbage Patch Kids and Furbys are being...
Security Central: Cybersecurity Firm Spills Bad News for Businesses, Companies Question Cloud Safety
The VAR Guy - Week after week, countless news stories surface spewing tales of breaches, new bugs and attackers outsmarting less-than-stellar or outdated defense systems. What effect does ransomware have on the channel? On Wednesday, the backup and disaster recovery gurus at Datto turned the focus on the channel with...
Channeling Security: NSFocus’ Gates Calls For More Multifactor Action
Stephen Gates, chief research intelligence analyst for NSFocus, says that while drive-by ransomware attacks are a real and growing problem, extortion happens in other ways, and partners need to keep their eyes on the full panoply of extortion methods — including attackers threatening companies with DDoS attacks unless they pay...
Reflection DDoS Attacks – You Don’t Need a Bigger Botnet
In the early days of DDoS attacks, the motivations and techniques were very different than they are today. When the first DDoS attacks were launched in the early 2000s, attackers were primarily motivated by competitive advantage and notoriety. Additionally, the mechanisms attackers used were quite primitive in comparison to the...
