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May 20, 2020 | By Yong Zhou
Verizon had just released its annual Data Breach Incident Report (DBiR) 2020. It analyzes 32,002 qualified security incidents and 3,950 confirmed data breaches across 81 countries.
After reading through the report, one thing was clear—not a lot has changed. The top four “threat actions” that led…
May 20, 2020 | By Yong Zhou
Verizon had just released its annual Data Breach Incident Report (DBiR) 2020. It analyzes 32,002 qualified security incidents and 3,950 confirmed data breaches across 81 countries.
After reading through the report, one thing was clear—not a lot has changed. The top four “threat actions” that led…
May 19, 2020 | By Ryan Davis
If you've ever wondered why that piece of advice is fairly common among IT and security professionals, we have answers in the first of our "Ask the Expert" video series.
In less than 10 minutes, ExtraHop Senior Sales Engineer Josh Snow and Keysight Senior Systems Engineer Hans Hohenner…
May 19, 2020 | By Ryan Davis
If you've ever wondered why that piece of advice is fairly common among IT and security professionals, we have answers in the first of our "Ask the Expert" video series.
In less than 10 minutes, ExtraHop Senior Sales Engineer Josh Snow and Keysight Senior Systems Engineer Hans Hohenner…
May 19, 2020 | By Kyle Flaherty
Being current is critical in cybersecurity. When attacks spring up you worry if you're protected. First you make sure your tools have been updated, the team creates new detection rules, you double check everything, and you...well...you wait to see if the attack hits and hope that everything is…
May 19, 2020 | By Kyle Flaherty
Being current is critical in cybersecurity. When attacks spring up you worry if you're protected. First you make sure your tools have been updated, the team creates new detection rules, you double check everything, and you...well...you wait to see if the attack hits and hope that everything is…
May 15, 2020 | By Jason Lackey
We love to think about security in terms of dark geniuses with hoodies, face tats and piercings lurking in scary places illuminated by flat panel displays and flickering fluorescent lights. We enjoy talk of zero day exploits and the fantastic toolkits put together by nation states – Stuxnet redux…
May 15, 2020 | By Jason Lackey
We love to think about security in terms of dark geniuses with hoodies, face tats and piercings lurking in scary places illuminated by flat panel displays and flickering fluorescent lights. We enjoy talk of zero day exploits and the fantastic toolkits put together by nation states – Stuxnet redux…
May 13, 2020 | By Avik Bhattacharya
I was watching the TED talk by Bill Gates recorded in March 2020 about how humanity should have responded to the coronavirus pandemic. He said, “Timely testing is super, super urgent” and probably the lack of it is costing humanity its biggest premium now in April 2020 and time to come. The one…
May 13, 2020 | By Avik Bhattacharya
I was watching the TED talk by Bill Gates recorded in March 2020 about how humanity should have responded to the coronavirus pandemic. He said, “Timely testing is super, super urgent” and probably the lack of it is costing humanity its biggest premium now in April 2020 and time to come. The one…
May 12, 2020 | By Kyle Flaherty
Here's a confession to start this post off, I'm the life of the party (even those hosted on Zoom). It's pretty easy to see why from this transcript I pulled from a soiree the other day, and that's right, I transcribe all my social interactions.
Friend 1: Man, work has been really busy lately, lots…
May 12, 2020 | By Kyle Flaherty
Here's a confession to start this post off, I'm the life of the party (even those hosted on Zoom). It's pretty easy to see why from this transcript I pulled from a soiree the other day, and that's right, I transcribe all my social interactions.
Friend 1: Man, work has been really busy lately, lots…
May 5, 2020 | By Kang-Wei Chang
Last month, the Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) team released a new type of cyberattack called Attack Campaigns. These smart Strikelists allow BreakingPoint users to test devices and networks with packaged attacks that represent every part of a real-world attack kill chain. You can find…
May 5, 2020 | By Kang-Wei Chang
Last month, the Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) team released a new type of cyberattack called Attack Campaigns. These smart Strikelists allow BreakingPoint users to test devices and networks with packaged attacks that represent every part of a real-world attack kill chain. You can find…
May 4, 2020 | By Kevin Formby
Market data feeds in financial markets are "odd beasts." They typically have very low average traffic profiles, but can spike around major market events, or even simply on market open. Peak traffic levels can be ten times the average traffic when relatively long periods of time - for example…
May 4, 2020 | By Kevin Formby
Market data feeds in financial markets are "odd beasts." They typically have very low average traffic profiles, but can spike around major market events, or even simply on market open. Peak traffic levels can be ten times the average traffic when relatively long periods of time - for example…
