Month: July 2017

SecuritySophos

XG Firewall flies high in NSS Labs tests

Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:13:55 +0000

Sophos XG Firewall is among the top in the industry for security effectiveness, performance and value.<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=41086&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/0Hmcw3SSr8c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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SecurityTrendMicro

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 24, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:25:08 +0000

This week, I attended the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. 2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the Black Hat conference. A lot has certainly changed since I started attending back in 2002. I’m sure that many will have their opinions on the central themes that they saw at the conference (artificial intelligence was…

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Bringing behavioral game theory to security defenses


Kelly Shortridge and CSO senior writer Fahmida Y Rashid talk about using behavioral game theory to take advantage of hackers’ mistakes and manipulate the data they think they're receiving. People generally make decisions by either thinking ahead to figure out how people may act in a given situation, or by learning over time by observing what people are doing. Since attackers learn over time by collecting feedback, obfuscating what they get can really mess up what the attackers are able to learn.

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