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Credit to Author: Derek Manky| Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:50:00 +0000

Fighting Automation with Automation: A manual approach just won't cut it anymore. Here's a toolset to defeat automation and unify control across all attack vectors to stop automated attacks.

Credit to Author: Phil Quade| Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:55:00 +0000

Malicious cyber activity targeted at the nation’s critical infrastructure – including water systems, transportation, energy, finance, and emergency services – are particularly worrisome because the interruption of those services can have devastating effects on our economy, impact the well being of our citizens, and even cause the loss of life.

Credit to Author: Justin Lei| Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:38:00 +0000

The Fortinet Security Fabric now allows organizations to deploy security tools across their entire distributed network, including deep into the data center and core and out to remote devices and the cloud, and then tie them together through a common, management strategy. FortiManager 5.6 provides a single pane of glass management dashboard to present consolidated monitors and controls across a wide range of network and endpoint security products, as well as critical network devices, through an intuitive and customizable dashboard.

Credit to Author: Jasper Manuel| Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:35:00 +0000

      KONNI is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that was first reported in May of 2017, but is believed to have been in use for over 3 years. As Part of our daily threat monitoring, FortiGuard Labs came across a new variant of the KONNI RAT and decided to take a deeper look. KONNI is known to be distributed via campaigns that are believed to be targeting North Korea. This new variant isn’t different from previous variants, as it is dropped by a DOC file containing text that was drawn from a CNN article entitled 12 things…

Credit to Author: Floser Bacurio, Joie Salvio, Rommel Joven| Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:22:00 +0000

A few days ago, while scouring through Fortinet’s Kadena Threat Intelligence System (KTIS), we found an emerging spam campaign. Initially, it was the scale that caught our attention, and then it got a lot more interesting when the payload was found out to be a new variant of the infamous Locky.

Credit to Author: Alex Samonte | Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Performance testing is used throughout our industry. It helps make decisions. It helps build infrastructure. It helps make sales. But where do we get the data for this performance testing? Should we trust it? How can we use it best?

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:58:00 +0000

There have been countless ideas about how the cloud could transform the healthcare space and patient care. As healthcare cloud adoption has grown, however, the initial focus has largely been on its ability to store massive amounts of data and expedite the exchange of patient health information. These two capabilities have primarily been harnessed through medical research and electronic medical records (EMRs). The big data analysis and storage capacity that cloud computing provides has made new forms of medical research possible, while EMRs have…

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:58:00 +0000

Today’s schools are technology-rich environments. For example, they have long used internal systems to keep and track a variety of records, including the personal data of their students and faculty. Today, however, that tech infrastructure must be optimized to accommodate the shift to a new digital education model. Teachers are increasingly adopting new digital learning tools, with $9 billion being spent on K-12 digital curriculum tools in 2016. While schools often provide some devices for faculty and students, bring your own device (BYOD)…