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Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS is an attack where there is an attempt to render an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple distributed sources.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is a pivotal organization in cyber security advice and supports the most critical organizations in the UK, the wider public sector, industry, SMEs and the general public.
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DoH, or DNS over HTTPS to be precise, has featured in mainstream media in recent weeks. Both Mozilla and Google have confirmed that their Firefox and Chrome browsers will be implementing DoH by default but what exactly is it and why does it have ISP’s worried?
To recap, DNS (or the Domain Name System) is used to translate a human-readable host address such as www.activereach.net to its underlying IP address that your computer can connect to in order to receive content.
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Cloud Visibility, Compliance and Security.
Any Application, Any Cloud, Anywhere
Date: 22nd October 2019
Time: 11:00am
If your organization is embracing the cloud, you need cloud visibility and automated compliance to enable security removing human error and restoring business agility.
The traditional way of designing and procuring hyper-scale networks has been seen almost as an outmoded concept since the advent of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) but the key part of this wave, the use of open source operating systems for network switches and routers, is allowing a real “sea-change” in the industry.
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The Domain Name System (DNS) has gone through many changes over the years since its birth around 1985. But even before this, in the very early days of computer networking, it became a necessity to map the computerised machine addresses of computer and network entities to more human friendly names.
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Venue: Searcys at The Gherkin, 30 St Mary Axe, London, EC3A 8EP
Date: 10th October 2019
Time: 8:30am – 11:00am
Network Design: Out In The Open
activereach, in conjunction with tech partners Cumulus Networks and Mellanox Technologies, is hosting a free breakfast meeting specifically geared towards educating networking IT professionals on how to introduce open source technologies into their data center networks.
When we hear the term ‘Endpoint Security’ we often think of making sure your organization is protected from malicious actors and cyberattacks attacking via an endpoint. This involves making sure that all the access points into an organization’s critical systems and physical devices are protected from unauthorized access to prevent damage to the rest of the network.
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1999 marked the first recorded case of a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. A small set of computers which were infected with malware attacked, and took offline, the entire network of the University of Minnesota. Fast forward 20 years and DDoS attacks have evolved into a much larger and more significant security threat to today’s organisations.
more →We were very pleased to use activereach and would not hesitate to use them again. Their implementation of a VPN solution required an understanding of our existing network, remote configuration of our equipment and the creation of a secure VPN.
Their technical understanding of our requirements allowed the work to be done efficiently and on schedule. This meant that we could concentrate on our own core business; secure in the knowledge that the VPN was correctly setup.
In 2017, 73% of actual data breaches were from outside the organisation, and the rest from inside.
Source: 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report 11th edition
Solution: activereach offers a range of network security solutions to improve security within your organisation and counter the insider threat.
