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What is Breach and Attack Simulation? Keysight's Breach and Attack Simulation offering - Threat SimulatorBreach and Attach Simulation, BAS, is an approach to IT security where an automated system continuously probes an organization’s network, looking for vulnerabilities. One way of thinking is that…

On February 18th, Wordfence published a blog post regarding a critical zero-day vulnerability in the “ThemeREX Addons” WordPress Plugin, which is currently being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability affects an estimated 44,000 sites. This blog post aims to shed some light on the technical…

Introduction OpenSMTPD is an open-source project started and mainly developed by the OpenBSD team. It implements the SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol), giving you the ability to either exchange mails on the same host or relay them to another mail server. It is also available in a portable form…

We hear more and more about the machines, automation, and “artificial intelligence” powering today’s cyber defenses, so kudos to RSA for bringing the focus back to square one – the Human Element. From users failing to protect passwords to administrators determining who should access resources to…

A key feature of our BreakingPoint application and security test product is the Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) subscription that ensures users have access to timely and comprehensive application protocols and threats. Because we have a strong and active ATI team, we don’t ever have to…

When we hear the word "training," visions of classrooms and online tutorials come to mind, but for many the best training is learning by doing. In the world of cyber security, the U.S. military has taken that concept to heart with the saying "we train like we fight." Cyber range exercises…

Another new year and a new job! Within Keysight I have now moved on to head up the Finance and Capital Markets solutions team which is responsible for formulating and driving our strategy for growth with the finance sector. Over the recent break I spent some time thinking about key drivers and…

As networks become larger and more complex, the cost to maintain them increases. However, there are clear activities that you can implement which will allow you to increase efficiency while controlling those costs. More in-depth coverage of these activities can be found in the whitepaper Ixia’…