High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

DDoS: A Brief History, Part II

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  March 27, 2013  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
In our last blog, we discussed DDoS, detailing the chronology of the DDoS attack from an early attack used by hackers to gain notoriety and wreak havoc to a sophisticated cybercrime tool used for monetary gain. In this Part II, gathered from informa...
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Sandboxing Technologies, Techniques Get Another Look

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  March 25, 2013  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Neil MacDonald, a vice president at Gartner, wrote in a blog last week the idea of sandboxing potentially malicious content and applications isn’t new, but interest in this type of approach – particularly on Windows desktops – is on the rise. A grow...
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Insomni'hack 2013

by RSS Ruchna Nigam  |  March 25, 2013  |  Category: Security Research
Insomni'hack 2013 took place last week at Geneva and I had the opportunity to attend. Insomni'hack DAY 1 consisted of one day workshops on subjects ranging from "Linux exploitation" to "How to make sure your Pentest Report is never empty". I had...
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DDoS: A Brief History

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  March 25, 2013  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been the tool of choice for cybercriminals since the dawn of the Internet. Why? They’re easy and effective. Denial of service is conducted when a multitude of systems are bombarded with traffic, whic...
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Digital Attack on Korean networks: Wipers, Time-Bombs and Roman soldiers

by RSS Kyle Yang  |  March 22, 2013  |  Category: Security Research
On March the 20th, little after 2pm, several South Korean financial institutions and TV broadcasters networks were impacted by a destructive virus, which wiped hard drives of infected computers, preventing them to boot up upon restart. Since then,...
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2013 BlackHat Europe

by RSS David Maciejak  |  March 19, 2013  |  Category: Security Research
BlackHat Europe was last week, and Fortiguard Labs members were there for the briefings. Again this year, the 2 days event took place in Amsterdam downtown. 500 people from all over the world registered to the conference. About 5 parallel tracks were...
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Deloitte Survey Finds Breaches Across Industries

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  March 15, 2013  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
A mid-February 2013 Deloitte Tech Trends poll of 1,749 business executives found more than one in four report their organizations were the victims of at least one cyber attack in the past year. Nine percent report multiple breaches, and 17 percent s...
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Network World Security Landscape Video Podcast (March)

by RSS Rick Popko  |  March 12, 2013  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
In this month’s Network World Security Landscape video podcast, reporter Keith Shaw speaks with Fortinet’s Derek Manky on trends he saw at this year’s RSA tradeshow, a new Claco cross platform botnet that’s migrating from the smartphones to PCs, t...
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Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) says Data Breach, Loss Top Cloud Threat List

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  March 08, 2013  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
A new survey of industry experts from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) finds data breach and data loss at the top of nine critical threats to cloud security. Cloud computing is more mainstream among businesses and government now than ever before. C...
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RSA Conference 2013: New Threats, New Solutions

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  March 07, 2013  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
The keynote speakers have gone home, the parties have ended, and another RSA Conference 2013 is over. By all reports, this year set records for attendance and business conducted. With a complex and evolving threat landscape and the accelerating adopt...
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One Product Line, Three NSS Labs Awards

by RSS Patrick Bedwell  |  March 05, 2013  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Fortinet has earned three NSS Labs’ coveted “Recommend” ratings by delivering outstanding enterprise management, security effectiveness and TCO in three group tests: 2013 Next Generation Firewall 2013 Network Firewall 2012 Network Intrusion Prevent...
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One Brand of Firewall is a Best Practice

by RSS Chris McKie  |  March 01, 2013  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
In case you haven’t seen it, there’s an interesting research note authored by Greg Young of Gartner that posits “one brand of firewall is a best practice for most enterprises.” And, in particular we have to agree. Why? Let’s go back to 1999 and se...
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