NSFOCUS Adds to Management Team with Longtime Security Industry Executive Tasso Mangas
January 25, 2016
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 25, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that Tasso Mangas, an industry veteran with a reputation for building successful sales operations in information security, has joined the management team as VP for North America. In his new position, Mr. Mangas is responsible for generating increased revenue in the U.S. and […]
Doing It Better
January 21, 2016
Track: Technical
Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS
Flying at 40,000 feet above the ground always gives one a sense of clarity. Looking down on the world from such a height can make a person feel somewhat insignificant. However, my trip today is very noteworthy. I will be landing in Las Vegas in a few hours and the next four days will be filled with excitement, entertainment, and education. I am not going to Vegas for the adult playground activities like many of my fellow passengers. I am going there to attend the most exciting event of my career; the 2016 Sales Kickoff for a widely-unknown company in the U.S. called NSFOCUS IB. (more…)
NSFOCUS Appoints Industry Veteran Jason Yuan as New VP, Product Management and Product Development
January 15, 2016
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 14, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that industry veteran Jason Yuan has been appointed as the new VP, Product Management and Product Development. Mr. Yuan brings more than 20 years’ experience to his new role, encompassing previous high-level positions in security, networking, cloud and enterprise software. As the executive […]
Carlos Cabello to Oversee International Operations for NSFOCUS IB
January 5, 2016
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 5, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that management veteran Carlos Cabello has been appointed as the new VP for International Business Operations. Mr. Cabello has more than a 20-year history of progressive and results-oriented experience in this broad-ranging field, complete with profit-and-loss responsibilities. His extensive skillsets cover everything from […]
Anatomy of an attack: network bandwidth exhaustion
January 5, 2016
Track: Technical
Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS
DDoS attacks come in three basic flavors: network-layer, application-layer and a hybrid of the two. This is a somewhat simplistic view but when you look at the strategy for taking someone down via DDoS, the two primary vehicles are either exhaustion of available network bandwidth or the overwhelming of back-end processing power (which can be directed either at the server system itself or the applications residing on them). The most efficient approach to take down a target will depend on the target itself. This is why it is important for every company to consider all of the assets that could become targets when designing anti-DDoS protection. (more…)
DDoS attacks – more than just disruption?
December 21, 2015
Track: General Security
Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have been around for decades and have been increasing in popularity due to the relative ease in carrying one out. Traditionally, the purpose of these attacks has been to make a site or service unavailable to its intended users for some duration via either flood-type attacks or application-layer attacks (which are smaller, but just as effective) that overwhelm the target’s network or systems. (more…)
Anatomy of an attack – DNS amplification
December 14, 2015
Track: Technical
Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS
DNS amplification attacks ramp up the power of a botnet when targeting a victim. The basic technique of a DNS amplification attack is to spoof the IP of the intended target and send a request for a large DNS zone file to any number of open recursive DNS servers. The DNS servers blindly respond to the request, sending the large DNS zone response to the attack target. (more…)
The financial impact of DDoS attacks: The devil is in the details
December 7, 2015
Track: Business
Author: Dave Martin, Director of Product Marketing, NSFOCUS
Even if you have not yet been the victim of a DDoS attack it is helpful to examine the financial impact of a potential attack on your organization for the purposes of doing risk assessment or for calculating the payback period of a DDoS protection solution. (more…)
Modern DDoS attacks: When Moore’s law meets Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
December 4, 2015
Author: Dave Martin, Director of Product Marketing, NSFOCUS
What would happen if you combined Moore’s law with Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and applied them to DDoS attacks? Unfortunately, modern DDoS attacks seem to embody this idea perfectly as both the frequency and complexity of these attacks have become truly staggering in just a short amount of time.
IANS Boston Information Security Forum
November 2, 2015
IANS Boston Information Security Forum November 2-3, 2016
