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DDoS Protection

DDoS Mitigation in the Age of Multicloud

Varun Haran  •  April 8, 2019

DDoS attacks are getting larger in size and shorter in duration at a time when multicloud environments, which lack a single point of monitoring, are becoming more common, says Ashley Stephenson, CEO of Corero Network Security, who offers risk management insights.

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Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development

Inside Netscout's Threat Report

Tom Field  •  March 25, 2019

Netscout is out with its latest threat report, and the research offers some startling new insights into DDoS, advanced threats and the commercialization of cybercrime. Hardik Modi offers analysis.

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Fraud Management & Cybercrime

CrowdStrike's 2019 Global Threat Report

Tom Field  •  March 25, 2019

CrowdStrike is out with its 2019 Global Threat Report, which includes a ranking of the most dangerous nation-state adversaries. The company's CTO, Dmitri Alperovitch, discusses the report's key findings about threats and threat actors.

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Fraud Management & Cybercrime

Threat Watch: Phishing, Social Engineering Continue

Mathew J. Schwartz  •  March 25, 2019

Reviewing 2018 attacks, Jon Clay of Trend Micro, says social engineering persists, including phishing attacks, while criminals also continue to steal credentials, lob ransomware at targets and push cryptomining malware.

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Governance

3 Hot Legal Topics at RSA Conference 2019

Mathew J. Schwartz  •  March 25, 2019

What's hot on the cybersecurity legal front? For starters, in 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted twice as many alleged state-sponsored attackers than it had ever indicted, says Kimberly Peretti of Alston & Bird.

DDoS Protection

Mirai Botnet Code Gets Exploit Refresh

Jeremy Kirk  •  March 19, 2019

Mirai, the powerful malware that unleashed unprecedented distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2016, has never gone away. And now a new version has been equipped with fresh exploits that suggest its operators want to harness the network bandwidth offered by big businesses.

Governance

Executive Roundtable Recap: "Confessions of a Healthcare CISO"

Nick Holland  •  May 8, 2019

ISMG and NTT hosted a roundtable dinner in Chicago on May 8 focused on "Confessions of a Healthcare CISO".

Governance

Cultural Challenges and Digital Transformation

Nick Holland  •  May 6, 2019

ISMG and Zscaler hosted a roundtable dinner in Morristown, New Jersey on April 11 focused on security's role in digital transformation.

Multi-factor & Risk-based Authentication

The Vision for Omnichannel Authentication

Information Security Media Group  •  May 3, 2019

Enterprises today have many digital ways of interacting with their customers - and therefore just as many ways for authenticating those users and transactions. Sesh Venkataraman of CA Technologies explains the business value of omnichannel authentication solutions.

Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development

Assessing the Cyber Threat Landscape

Tom Field  •  May 2, 2019

The 2018 cybersecurity landscape ushered in a blend of old and new threats, some of them game-changing, according to Trend Micro's Annual Security Roundup. Trend's Greg Young shares insight from this report.

Business Email Compromise (BEC)

Enhancing Office 365 to Securely Manage and Share Sensitive Information

Information Security Media Group  •  April 24, 2019

Email is still the fundamental driver for Office 365 and the biggest risk to data security and compliance.

DDoS Protection

Ecuador Hit With 'Cyberattacks' After Assange's Arrest

Scott Ferguson  •  April 17, 2019

The government of Ecuador has been hit with millions of "cyberattacks" following its withdrawal of asylum protection for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his arrest by British police last week, an Ecuadorian official says.