Risk Management June 19, 2023

A history of ransomware and the cybersecurity ecosystem

4 min read - The number and complexity of cybersecurity tools have grown at a dizzying pace in recent decades. As cyber threats like ransomware became more numerous and complex, antivirus and threat management tools expanded to meet these challenges. Security experts now often…

Mobile Security June 7, 2021

The OSI Model and You Part 3: Stopping Threats at the OSI Network Layer

2 min read - Networking models help us understand the ‘lay of the land’ when it comes to protecting the network. In our journey through the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) framework, we’ve arrived at the last stop in the media group, the OSI network…

Intelligence & Analytics May 26, 2021

The Cybersecurity Ecosystem: How Did It Get So Crowded?

5 min read - Peek inside any enterprise security operations center (SOC) today, and you’ll likely see a crowded and high-pressure cybersecurity ecosystem. Over the past few years, as technology evolved rapidly, attackers have developed a growing array of strategies and tactics. In response,…

Zero Trust May 7, 2021

How a Firewall Can Foster Zero Trust

2 min read - Older perimeter-based firewalls aren’t up to the task of safeguarding today’s more distributed networks. But that doesn’t mean the end of the firewall is in sight. On the contrary, businesses and other groups are turning to next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) hosted…

Cloud Security February 16, 2021

Firewall Services and More: What’s Next for IT?

3 min read - Firewall services, cloud network protection tools and other IT defense staples are seeing a lot of changes in 2021. IT landscapes are growing more complex, as are the defense systems that protect them. Remote work is common, and more work is…

Cloud Security February 1, 2021

Is the End of the Firewall in Sight?

3 min read - Is a firewall a thing of the past? People have been questioning the utility of firewalls for years. Columnist and editor Roger A. Grimes wrote that “firewalls need to go away” in May 2012. Grimes reasoned this was because firewalls…

May 4, 2020

Weekly Security News Roundup: Shade Ransomware Authors Release 750K Decryption Keys

3 min read - The authors of Shade ransomware announced that they were releasing 750,000 decryption keys to help victims recover their files for free. Learn what else happened last week in security news.

April 28, 2020

Data-Stealing Asnarök Malware Exploits Zero-Day Flaw in Sophos XG Firewalls

2 min read - Cybercriminals have been using a Trojan dubbed Asnarök to steal data by exploiting a vulnerability in enterprise firewalls from Sophos, the company warned.

March 2, 2020

Weekly Security News Roundup: Attacks on Personal Data More Frequent in 2019

3 min read - Researchers reported a surge in the frequency of attacks that targeted people's data as well as of Trojans that hid on popular app marketplaces. Learn what else happened last week in security news.

February 26, 2020

Cloud Snooper Attack Uses Innocent-Looking Requests to Bypass Firewall Rules

2 min read - Security researchers discovered a new attack they're calling "Cloud Snooper" that uses innocent-looking requests to bypass the rules of many, if not most, firewalls.