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This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Netskope who explain the current threat trends in the cloud.
Bad actors are constantly looking for new ways to attack the enterprise. There are many known patterns of execution that are still very effective such as phishing, BEC scams, vulnerability searches on exposed websites/systems, lack of hardened systems, and misconfigurations left unaddressed/unscreened before releasing to production, leaving company’s assets exposed.
more →As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations find themselves rushing to meet the sudden increase in Remote Access VPN (RA-VPN) traffic as many employees are choosing to (or have been asked to) work from home. Unfortunately, this also offers opportunities for malicious attackers to launch attacks on the VPN infrastructure at a time when they know the impact will be most felt.
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We have always advocated DDoS testing your systems on a regular basis on the premise that it is no good waiting until you experience a DDoS attack to find out that the mitigation that you so diligently put in place doesn’t provide the protection you need. But we know that many companies struggle to find the time to be able to run such tests.
more →This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Radware who explain why DDoS protection is so important.
DDoS protection can easily be compared to a car’s airbag system: it’s hard to appreciate its true value until it’s needed. Like airbags, DDoS protection provides invaluable peace-of-mind and a constant safeguard against the lurking threats that no one wants to think about, but must always prepare for.
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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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How DDoS attacks have evolved
As with most IT security threats, distributed denial of service attacks have evolved over time. Simple attacks at the network level designed to exhaust target bandwidth capacity have been complemented with more complex and subtle attacks that can bring down websites but leave the network standing, often without triggering DDoS mitigation.
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With the recent move to home working for a lot of people, even for a short time, its important to approach this in a structured way to keep you both happy and healthy. Below is our survival guide to working from home:
Create a designated work area
One of the best ways to reinforce the work/home boundary is to set up a dedicated office area – it doesn’t need to be a separate room it can just be a designated corner of a room.
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Over the years, Remote Access technology has developed to a degree where a lot of businesses can shift from an office-based to a working from home model to allow business continuity in challenging times – as many have done recently in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unfortunately, despite global events, there are still those who will exploit others for financial gain meaning that secure working practices are more important than ever.
more →I’d like to say thank you to all your team at activereach for making the whole building move a little less painful. As usual, you guys were amazing, totally professional, constructive and helpful with everything you were involved with and also with trying to smooth out the shortcomings in other areas of the project 🙂
The rate of public reports of data being lost through misconfiguration events increased by 20% year on year. Half of incidents involved misconfiguration of cloud servers – involving the exposure of 990 million data records.
Source: IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2019
Solution: Security teams can benefit from using activereach's cloud firewall management services to have visibility of cloud assets on AWS, Azure, of Google's cloud services without the need for agent software. Servers can be forced to adopt default secure configurations, and be subject to audit against common regulatory frameworks like PCI DSS.
