Track: Technical Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS When thinking about how to best to protect an environment, most non-security people tend to focus on the latest whiz-bang tools and threats that get mainstream media attention. Truly effective security, however, starts with understanding the environment that you are protecting, and wrapping...
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Massive Brute-Force Attack on Alibaba Affects Millions
InfoSecurity Up to 21 million accounts on Alibaba e-commerce site TaoBao may have been compromised thanks to a massive brute-force attack. Dave Martin, our security expert and director said that some of the accounts were compromised because of overlapping passwords but there were likely many accounts stolen due to weak...
Utilities Lack Visibility to Prevent All Attacks, Research Shows
eWeek As reports of attacks against energy utilities emerge, there is some evidence that they aren’t properly secured, two separate studies show. NSFOCUS report analyzed that the malware which has been implicated in the Ukraine outage shows that the attack didn’t necessarily use an exotic zero-day vulnerability. The report concludes...
Costly government cybersecurity system needs major changes
TechTarget Search Security A new report on the EINSTEIN government cybersecurity system concluded that it is only “partially meeting its stated system objectives,” and needs some major changes. The report comes from the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) and had some startling revelations, including that the National Cybersecurity Protection System(NCPS),...
The managed services opportunity – from commodity provider to valued partner
Track: Business Author: Dave Martin, Director of Product Marketing, NSFOCUS Network connectivity has become a commodity business. Business internet access once priced at $500 per month for 1.5 Mbps is now available for half of the cost at almost 70x the capacity. While this is great for consumers, pure play service...
NSFOCUS International Business (IB) Appoints Industry Specialist Alex Cruz Farmer as VP, Cloud Services
Will Oversee Cloud-Based Anti-DDoS Mitigation Centers SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 9, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that industry veteran Alex Cruz Farmer, has been appointed to the position of VP, Cloud Services. In this capacity he will oversee the new cloud-based mitigation centers the company is launching as...
