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Credit to Author: Jon Bove| Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

Partners: Cybersecurity must always be a critical element of your customers’ innovations to ensure that changes in enterprise technology do not leave the organization vulnerable to attacks. However, this is easier said than done.

Credit to Author: Drew Del Matto| Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

As global cyberattacks persist, cybersecurity is becoming a main focus in the C-suite. Gone are the days where it’s just a concern for IT teams. These rapid, sophisticated attacks across industries have demonstrated that cybersecurity is the responsibility of the entire organization as they seek to avoid the crippling effects associated with data breaches.

Credit to Author: Artem Semenchenko and Evgeny Ananin| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:30:00 +0000

FortiGuard Labs continues to investigate a series of attacks on Bitcoin users. In our first blog, we [AS1] provided a deep analysis of malicious samples from the Bitcoin Orcus RAT campaign. In this second part, we recreate the full path of a multistage complex attack, shed some light on some other activities of these criminal actors, and reveal their possible identities. Failed attempt Bitcointalk.org is a popular place to trade for bitcoins. In 2015 there was a simple and straightforward attack on its users. Somebody registered a…

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

Recently, Fortinet CISO Phil Quade spoke with Hussein Syed, CISO at RWJBarnabas Health, and Erik Devine, CISO at Riverside Healthcare, about how they are addressing some of the most pressing IT challenges facing healthcare while enabling technical innovation.

Credit to Author: Rajoo Nagar| Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Threats are constantly evolving to evade security defenses at the same time that digital transformation initiatives are introducing new attack vectors. And in addition to staying ahead of the latest threats, security solutions must also keep up with the vast amounts of differing network traffic types they have to inspect, such as IPv4 and IPv6, and increasingly, encrypted traffic as well. And they must do all this without adding latency or decreasing the speed of access. Today’s threats also proliferate quickly, requiring advanced threat prevention…

Credit to Author: Stephan Tallent| Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

The nature of the MSSP business offers an ideal playing field for fast-footed players to develop innovative offerings targeting the most vexing cybersecurity problems facing private and public organizations. MSSPs thrive by integrating off-the-shelf products with innovative thinking and effective action to address urgent customer needs. The recipe for MSSP visionary success calls for equal parts technical savvy, street smarts, and fanatical devotion to end-customer success.

Credit to Author: Joie Salvio| Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:59:59 +0000

  There is no doubt that cryptocurrency has been on a steady rise. According to a research paper by the University of Cambridge, the market capitalization of cryptocurrency has increased more than three-fold since early last year and it’s not likely to stop there. With more and more people realizing that cryptocurrency is potentially a significantly profitable investment, this rise is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. And where there is profit, that is where malware attacks will gather. Which is why we have been expecting…

Credit to Author: Mike Morgan| Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:59:59 +0000

We have just announced our annual Fortinet Accelerate global partner and user conference, taking place on February 26 – March 1, 2018 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. This year we are expecting more than 2,000 customers, partners, industry leaders, and technical experts to come together to share industry trends and discuss the latest advances in technologies and strategies. This year’s Accelerate 2018 event includes: Premier cybersecurity and threat trends education and labs, including Network Security Experts (NSE) training…