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Byline: The Move to Standardization and Open Architectures Enables Cybersecurity Automation For the Government Sector

Credit to Author: Steve Kirk | Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 07:17:56 -0800

In order to remain responsive, resilient, and agile, government organizations must adopt open, integrated, and automated security architectures that enable the collection and sharing of threat intelligence and the ability to coordinate a response to detected threats.

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Byline: Companies Are Taking the Cyber Skills Gap Into Their Own Hands

Credit to Author: Scott Edwards| Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 07:24:45 -0800

Businesses are expanding investments in infrastructure security but struggling to source the increasingly rare talent needed to implement and operate their solutions. As an industry-leader, Fortinet believes it is our responsibility to foster the development and continuing education of cybersecurity talent and close the cybersecurity skills gap

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FortiGuard Labs Telemetry – Roundup and Comparison of 2015 and 2016 IoT Threats

Credit to Author: Gavin Chow| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:45:09 -0800

Attacks targeting and originating from IoT devices began grabbing news headlines toward the last quarter of 2016. Insecure IoT devices became the low-hanging fruit for threat actors to easily exploit. Some were even notoriously used as botnets to launch DDoS attacks against selected targets. For example, the infamous Mirai botnet exploited weak login vulnerabilities in insecure IoT devices such as IP cameras and home routers, and was responsible for one of the largest known DDoS attacks to date. Besides being used in DDoS attacks, exploited IoT…

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Byline: Is Your Healthcare Data Safe? Three Questions to Ask

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:20:08 -0800

In the all-out war for data, the healthcare industry is getting hit the hardest. Experian’s fourth annual 2017 Data Breach Industry Forecast states that healthcare organizations will be the most targeted sector for attack, with new and sophisticated attacks emerging. If healthcare organizations and their IT teams aim to keep data safe, they need to take a step back to assess the overall security landscape and the security processes currently in place on a macro level.

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Byline: Securing Your Growing Home Network

Credit to Author: Anthony Giandomenico| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:45:18 -0800

For the enterprise, we recommend a three phase approach to security based around learning what is on your network, dividing the network into separated segments, and then implementing appropriate security that provides critical protections without compromising functionality and interoperability.

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