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E-Rate Program: What You Should Know When Filing

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

Having secure, reliable access to the internet is no longer an option. It’s necessary. This is especially true for schools, as curriculum and resources are increasingly moving online and cyberattacks are becoming more frequent. In fact, data shows that 141 US school districts have reported one or more cyber incidents since 2016. To meet these needs, K-12 schools and districts across the United States are currently in the process of applying for E-rate for Funding Year 2018. The E-rate program from the Universal Service Administration…

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Symbiotic Security in Healthcare

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

If healthcare providers can’t figure out how to safely adopt IoMT and operate in the digital age, they won’t survive. One of the benefits of consolidations, mergers and acquisitions is that the acquiring practice is oftentimes now acting as a SaaS provider for the smaller, acquired practice – including providing cybersecurity. Because networks are more complicated than ever before, security is only as strong as its weakest link. 

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Fortinet Delivers Advanced Web Application Protection Through New Managed Rules for AWS WAF Service

Credit to Author: Mark Byers| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:50:59 +0000

Fortinet is one of the first companies to participate in the expansion of the AWS WAF program with a set of four packaged rulesets. AWS WAF customers can choose from basic WAF rulesets that provide protection from cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and malicious botnets, while our advanced ruleset offers the latest general application attack types and known vulnerabilities.

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Fortinet Delivers Advanced Web Application Protection Through New Managed Rules for AWS WAF

Credit to Author: Mark Byers| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:50:59 +0000

Fortinet is one of the first companies to participate in the expansion of the AWS WAF program with a set of four packaged rulesets. AWS WAF customers can choose from basic WAF rulesets that provide protection from cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and malicious botnets, while our advanced ruleset offers the latest general application attack types and known vulnerabilities.

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Executive Insights: The Digital Transformation of Security

Credit to Author: Ken Xie| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:50:59 +0000

Securing the entire distributed infrastructure using single set of integrated security protocols and complementary policies require a Security Fabric approach built around interconnected security tools. Such an integrated fabric is able to span the entire network, and then dynamically adapt as network infrastructures adjust to meet changing data and workload needs. And it needs to do all of this at the speed of digital business. 

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Fortinet Delivers Advanced Web Application Protection Through New AWS WAF Partner Managed Rules

Credit to Author: Mark Byers| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:50:59 +0000

Fortinet is one of the first companies to participate in the expansion of the AWS WAF program with a set of four packaged rulesets. AWS WAF customers can choose from basic WAF rulesets that provide protection from cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and malicious botnets, while our advanced ruleset offers the latest general application attack types and known vulnerabilities.

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Fortinet Quarterly Threat Landscape Report: The Battle Against Cybercrime Continues to Escalate

Credit to Author: Anthony Giandomenico| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:30:59 +0000

Fortinet today announced the findings of its latest Global Threat Landscape Report. The research reveals that high botnet reoccurrence rates and an increase of automated malware demonstrate that cybercriminals are leveraging common exploits combined with automated attack methods at unprecedented speed and scale.

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A Deep Dive Analysis of the FALLCHILL Remote Administration Tool

Credit to Author: Minh Tran| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:45:59 +0000

FortiGuard Labs has been actively monitoring FALLCHILL, validating all its IOCs (indicators of compromise), and providing protection for our customers. In a previous post we provided a high level overview of FALLCHILL. In this research report we dig even further, providing a deep dive analysis of the FALLCHILL Remote Administration Tool (RAT) in order to shed additional light on this threat, and thereby help our customer and the security community at large defend against this threat and similar threats.

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