The network security paradigm is currently shifting toward a new reality as advanced hacking methods become more prevalent and harder to detect. An example of such a method is advanced evasion techniques (AETs). Although evasions have been documented extensively in the last 15 years, security vendors have systematically ignored the significance of evasions. Some vendors
The debate over advanced evasion techniques (AETs). To assess what IT security professionals understand about AETs and what measures have been put in place to stop them, McAfee commissioned Vanson Bourne in January 2014 to survey 800 CIOs and security managers from the US, UK, Germany, France, Australia, Brazil, and South Africa.
The need for robust network security is growing, but IT security teams, resources, and budgets are shrinking at many organizations. That doesn’t mean you have to scale down your growth or skimp on key IT security areas, but it does mean you need to optimize your resources, starting with your network firewall team. Resource optimization
This white paper will help network and cybersecurity teams understand the things they can and should demand from NGFWs: • Built-in high availability and load balancing for operational resilience and handling growing data loads. • Contextual security that provides fine-grained access control to reduce risk and manage usage. • Automated, advanced evasion detection that can
IT organizations increasingly rely on Internet and cloud-based technologies to support their distributed operations. This has spawned a host of new application delivery challenges that, hand-in-hand with the industry trends of globalization, growing cloud adoption, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), mean that IT often has little to no control of either end user devices,
The advent of the Internet has resulted in an ever-expanding data ecosystem. Unfortunately, this has also led to an increase in data breaches and identity theft. While attackers are still motivated by crime (to gain money), politics (to gain power and influence), and espionage (to gain market advantage), they also want to steal your information
Akamai’s globally-distributed Intelligent Platform allows us to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics, including connection speeds, attack traffic, network connectivity/ availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress, as well as traffic patterns across leading Web properties and digital media providers. Each quarter, Akamai publishes the State of the Internet Report.
WHY SHOULD I READ THIS GUIDE? The data center perimeter is dead. But its memory lives on in the way many IT departments continue to secure their infrastructure. The meteoric rise of the Internet brought with it an ever-changing landscape of new attacks and completely disrupted organizations’ old models of guarding their IT infrastructure.
A quick look at why authentication, authorization and accounting – or AAA and RA DIUS – were developed can easily take you back more than a decade. Acronyms and phrases like modems, roaming between ISPs, UNI X, and AOL come to mind. Users had one device and were chained to wired desktops. And IT managed
If you’re like most, sitting at a desk for the entire day and only carrying a laptop is a thing of the past. Life was simple and you could always reach email, apps and the printers needed. The new generation of worker, known as #GenMobile, uses multiple mobile devices for every aspect of work and