The shift to remote working has triggered an eye-watering amount of ransomware attacks in recent months and business leaders must ensure they have the correct tools in place to secure their organisations. Keith Glancey, Systems Engineering Manager, Western Europe at Infoblox, discusses the rise in ransomware attacks and how organisations can protect themselves from cybercriminals.   […]

Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, and Google Cloud have announced Cloud IDS (Intrusion Detection System), a jointly developed network threat detection service to help cloud customers solve critical network security challenges. Built with Palo Alto Networks’ industry-leading threat detection technologies, Cloud IDS provides simple, managed, cloud native network-based threat detection — offering Google […]

NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Cisco to provide the networking technology to enable the first-ever all-IP delivery for its production of the Tokyo Olympic Games. The games take place from July 23 and August 8 and will be the first all-IP International Broadcast Center operation for NBC Olympics.  The […]

Sameer Basha, Security Consultant GCC, Check Point Software Technologies – Middle East, discusses the importance of using threat hunting to defend against attackers on a network, as well as how threat hunting is beneficial to operations and creates a resilient cyber infrastructure. What is threat hunting and why is it relevant to CISOs? Threat hunting […]

As security of data transfer remains critically important, global operators must seek to deploy secure optical links to deter potential threats from hackers. According to Prysmian, operators should look to implement a solution that can help safely transmit optical signals and cope with the higher bit rates and wavelength operations that next-generation Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) systems […]

Hardus Dippenaar, Senior Network Architect at Datacentrix, discusses why a Zero Trust policy is necessary and why organisations should embrace this particular approach to security. Our changing world, with its more distributed infrastructure and new applications and workloads exposing a larger attack surface, means that perimeter security, while still an important element within an enterprise’s […]

Huawei, a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, is at GISEC 2021 from May 31 to June 2, where it’s showcasing its capabilities in smart government, cloud and 5G, all built around a robust cybersecurity foundation. Huawei regional executives are also contributing to various plenary sessions during the event […]

Thales and Senetas have collaborated to launch the world’s first quantum resistant network encryption solution, capable of protecting customer data (at speeds up to 100 Gbps) against future quantum attacks. Regarded the most significant threat to cybersecurity, quantum computing looks set to render many of today’s security methods, such as encryption, obsolete. With estimates that […]

Flex, a leader in the manufacturing industry, recognised the need for next-generation cybersecurity capabilities and worked to achieve secure remote access for 20,000 people in seven days, as COVID-19 meant its workers had to do so remotely. Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Cortex XSOAR security orchestration and automated response provided […]

CISOs are faced with the challenge of their enterprise-level environments being vulnerable to lateral movement in their networks. Carolyn Crandall, Chief Security Advocate and CMO at Attivo Networks, says most CISOs are familiar with the role lateral movement plays in attacks, but organisations need to back up this knowledge with action. A thief breaking into […]