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Credit to Author: Bill McGee| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:03:03 -0800

RSA 2017 is a wrap. The final sessions are being recorded, the coat check area is filled with luggage, and the smell of propane is filling the show floors as forklifts begin to deliver packing crates to this year’s crop of security vendors. As expected, the hottest security topics and offerings were related to IoT and the cloud. Threat intelligence and SOCs were also top of mind as companies try to get a handle on the deluge of data and devices flooding their networks. In spite of the veneer of innovation, however, for far too many vendors…

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:24:36 -0800

By now, everyone has heard the numbers. IoT is part of a networking revolution that is transforming the world. Experts predict that by 2020 there will be over 33 billion IoT devices deployed, or 4.3 Internet-connected devices for every man, woman, and child on the planet. Of course, IoT is more than just one thing. There are a variety of IoT devices and categories, each with their own implications. Consumer IoT includes the connected devices we are most familiar with, such as smart cars, phones, watches, laptops, connected appliances, and…

Credit to Author: Floser Bacurio and Joie Salvio| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:15:03 -0800

Remcos is another RAT (Remote Administration Tool) that was first discovered being sold in hacking forums in the second half of 2016. Since then, it has been updated with more features, and just recently, we’ve seen its payload being distributed in the wild for the first time. This article demonstrates how this commercialized RAT is being used in an attack, and what its latest version (v1.7.3) is capable of doing. Remcos is currently being sold from $58 to $389, depending on the license period and the maximum number of masters or clients…

Credit to Author: Annabelle Sou| Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:18:43 -0800

Fortinet, VMware, and International Data Corporation (IDC) are hitting the road with the Agile Cloud Security series of events across EMEA, with the aim of increasing awareness of the security challenges digital transformation and cloud present, along with the solutions available to address these challenges.  From February to June, this road show will visit seven countries across the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.

Credit to Author: Ken Xie| Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 06:09:18 -0800

If we want to get ahead of cybercrime, we must share information. A collection of companies working together to collect and share intelligence will always have better visibility into the threat landscape than one organization on its own. Seeing new threats as soon as they emerge increases our ability to respond and protect valuable resources. There is a lot of raw data for organizations to use, from both global sources and within their own networks. Unfortunately, most security infrastructures were not designed to effectively consume, correlate,…

Credit to Author: John Welton| Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:47:47 -0800

Information sharing continues to be a topic that remains timely and vital in global cybersecurity. As an industry, it is well understood that turning the tide on cybercrime requires actionable information sharing across networks, borders, and vendors. Fortinet’s Derek Manky offers some perspective ahead of RSA 2017 in San Francisco. Why is information sharing so important today? Sharing information proactively across all verticals and public or private organizations is essential moving forward. Organizations continue to struggle against…

Credit to Author: Ken McAlpine| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:49:47 -0800

For many of us in the Security Industry, the possibility of using Internet of Things (IoT) devices as a launchpad for an attack has been mostly theoretical. However, information obtained after the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the services offered by DYN.com appears to show that the threat is real and immediate. The definition of IoT is often a little vague. Generally speaking, I consider any device with an IP address associated with it to be some sort of an IoT device, though not all of them are problems. The ones…

Microsoft Ignite – Australia – Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition February 14-17th https://msftignite.com.au/ Is cloud the new normal for your enterprise? Are you moving more and more applications into the cloud? Have you asked yourself how you are securing your data in this new world of cloud? Scalability and flexibility are the key drivers of Cloud networking and computing. With more and more business transitioning to public cloud environments, the cloud is becoming an increasingly attractive target for hackers…