Introduction In August 2016 a near-complete exploit kit targeting all major firewall manufacturers was released by a group known as the ShadowBrokers. This exploit kit has been widely attributed as belonging to a group in the NSA known as the Tailored Access Operations Unit (also commonly…

All IPsec infrastructure owners testing their IPsec deployments go through a similar set of reoccurring pain points. For those of you in this position, think about how much time are you spending to successfully establish and run traffic through an IPsec tunnel when setting up a new test bed from…

Imagine for a second that you can recreate your production network traffic between private and public network hosts. You can bring up all the applications, their users and actions, and combine them with potential threat vectors—internal or external. Imagine you can control the volume of the network…

Everything is becoming “connected” these days. For healthcare providers, this includes patient monitoring, asset tracking, electronic health records, communications, vendor software-as-a-service solutions, and pretty much everything else. What happens if any one of these areas malfunction, or if a…

The art of deception has been used by humans and animals for thousands of years, and evolution has only made those deceptions more sophisticated. Deception can come in many forms, but its primary purpose is to propagate the belief in things that are not true. Deception has always been a key feature…

At ATI Research Center, we are asked to provide real-world emulation of Internet traffic at scale. Both the good, the bad, and the ugly. Part of this job for Lalithya Divi and me is recreating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in a controlled environment. This enables us to qualify the…

Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) are fast becoming the ‘now generation’ of firewalls:  a recent survey found that NGFWs represent half of the current firewall infrastructures in nearly 300 of the 600 organizations polled, and that just 7% of respondents said they had not yet deployed NGFWs in…

What unites nearly half of all cyberattacks carried out this year? The answer might surprise you.  It involves data encryption.  Research has revealed that nearly half of organizations in financial services, healthcare, and other industries that suffered a cyberattack in the past year,…