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Credit to Author: FortiGuard SE Team| Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:40:59 +0000

FortiGuard Labs just released our latest Quarterly Threat Landscape report for Q4 of 2017. As usual, there are a lot of take-aways for CISOs, but a few items stood out. In particular, attacks were up per firm by 82% and swarm cyber attacks targeted the Internet of Things (IoT) with growing intensity.

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:45:59 +0000

2018 is lining up to be the year of Digital Transformation. Just about every organization looking to remain viable in the growing digital marketplace has some sort of digital transformation in progress or one in the planning stages for this year. These projects range from implementing basic applications to better interact with online consumers, to converging OT and IT networks, or even pushing their entire infrastructure to the cloud.

Credit to Author: Ronen Shpirer| Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:45:59 +0000

The Mobile Security and Managed Security Services Zone area that we’re setting in up in our booth at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) places Fortinet at the center of one of the most innovation-intensive sectors of Communication Service Providers (CSPs). The dawning era of 5G is about much more than speeds and availability.

Credit to Author: Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:44:59 +0000

At the beginning of February 2018, FortiGuard Labs collected an email. The email message contains an order tracking number with a fake hyperlink that downloads a jar malware. After a quick analysis, I was able to determine that it is the jRAT/Adwind malware.

Credit to Author: Nirav Shah| Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:45:59 +0000

As healthcare providers adopt digital capabilities, traditional WANs are not equipped to keep up. Learn why SD-WANs are a better option, and how to secure them.

Credit to Author: David Finger| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:45:59 +0000

For the past 16 years, Fortinet has actively participated in every credible lab test we find in order to support a standardized, ideally comparative, assessment of our solutions. And in return, we usually learn as much as our potential customers do from the results.

Credit to Author: Jonathan Nguyen-Duy| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:44:59 +0000

The vast majority of cybercrime we deal with is opportunistic and automated. It is the domain of criminals trolling for the unaware and vulnerable. They target unpatched systems and vulnerable applications, exploit gullible end users, break through inadequate security systems, and infect people wandering around the web in places they probably shouldn’t go.

Credit to Author: Matthew Pley| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:45:59 +0000

It’s been said that a rising tide lifts all boats. It turns out, however, that it doesn’t lift them all at the same time. Boats way in the back of the harbor, a little higher up on the shore, tend to have to wait a bit longer for the tide to reach them. In networking terms, those boats are just a bit beyond the reach of the first waves of the incoming tide of digital transformation. While networks have been in transition for the past few years, traditional connectivity comes with its own set of obstacles. Mainly because it has historically…