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Credit to Author: Cynthia Hseih| Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Fortinet and Amazon Web Services are committed to delivering world-class security to new AWS GovCloud workloads. With the continuation of our partnership in the new release of AWS GovCloud, we are now able to further protect mission-critical government workloads with six virtual security products optimized for AWS.

Credit to Author: Bill Hogan| Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:58:00 +0000

Because financial services organizations are at an inherently greater risk due to the sensitive nature of the data they store, and the often-monetary motivations of cybercriminals, they are keenly aware of the damage that can result from a data breach. Data shows that the financial services sector was the most frequently targeted industry in 2016, with attacks increasing 29 percent year-over-year. In light of these attacks, along with increased government regulations, financial services firms are ramping up their security measures. In fact, a…

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:06:00 +0000

Fortinet recently talked with Michael Dierickx, director of security engineering and information security officer, about Panasonic Avionics’ security priorities and the tools they use to keep customers’ information safe on today’s connected aircraft. 

Credit to Author: Mark Byers | Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 15:42:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce that our FortiWeb appliance has once again placed in the “Challenger” quadrant in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls 2017 report, as well as improving our position up and to the right over 2016.

Credit to Author: James Cabe| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:52:00 +0000

Clouds are tricky things. It’s hard to tell where the foundations of a cloud reside. You could point at the physical infrastructure. Some of the best side-channel attacks target hardware. There is the operating system that runs everything. And there is the middleware, billing, hypervisors, drivers and web front ends. The potential attack surface of a cloud service provider (CSP) or consumption market platform is gigantic.

Credit to Author: James Cabe| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:50:00 +0000

In the simplest terms, the cloud allows users to store and access data and programs on someone else’s hardware, usually over the internet, rather than using their local device or network resources. But it is much more than simply offsite storage. It also includes services that allow users to replicate some or all of their local environment, from running applications to designing complex infrastructures. And it needs to be able to scale to lots of users. Simply put, you do not have a “cloud” unless…

Credit to Author: Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:20:00 +0000

Over the past few days, FortiGuard Labs captured a number of JS (JavaScript) scripts. Based on my analysis, they were being used to spread the new GlobeImposter ransomware variants.

Credit to Author: Anthony Giandomenico| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:31:00 +0000

On the anniversary of the World Wide Web release to the public this week, we are taking a closer look at how web use has irrevocably changed and modernized some of the key industries shaping our lives today, and what this change means for our global cybersecurity.