Fortinet

Credit to Author: Nirav Shah| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 05:35:36 -0700

Fortinet solutions have been designed to support ICS protocols and manufacturers, allowing them to provide the same level of actionable security in an industrial network as it does in an enterprise network while adapting to the unique ICS environment.

Credit to Author: Axelle Apvrille| Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 05:32:06 -0700

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Credit to Author: John Welton| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:16:26 -0700

The following is an excerpt from an Intel Chip Chat interview with James Cabe, Global Alliances Manager at Fortinet. Chip Chat is a podcast series of informal interviews with some of the brightest minds in the industry, hosted by Intel employee Allyson Klein.

Credit to Author: Amy Thompson| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:14:13 -0700

Going wireless with a customer’s network and cloud was once a leap. Now it’s simply the next step. According to Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index, 92% of workloads will be processed in cloud data centers by 2020, and research from IDG shows worldwide spending on public cloud service will grow to more than $141B by 2019. As the use of the cloud grows, however, the potential attack surface becomes substantially larger and organizations are exposed to new risks. But that’s not all. While technology is evolving, so are customer…

Credit to Author: Anthony Giandomenico| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:03:39 -0700

One of the main reasons for the rapid growth in tax refund fraud is that it takes little effort to file a false return. A valid name, date of birth, and Social Security number are all one needs to file a return. Given the unprecedented number of data thefts last year, it is obvious this information is readily available. A quick trip to the Dark Web can provide criminals with the ability to purchase millions of files with this data.

Credit to Author: Chris Navarrete & Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:29:47 -0700

In the blog we posted on March 22, FortiGuard Labs introduced a new Word Macro malware sample that targets both Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. After deeper investigation of this malware sample, we can confirm that after a successful infection the post-exploitation agent Meterpreter is run on the infected Mac OS X or Windows system. Meterpreter is part of the Metasploit framework. More information about Meterpreter can be found here. For this to work, the attacker’s server must be running Metasploit as the controller to control the…

Credit to Author: Dave Morrissey| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:47:19 -0700

Fortinet is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the 2017 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit being held April 5th and 6th in Sydney, Australia at the Hordern Pavilion & Royal Hall of Industries. Security is a high priority for Amazon Web Services. AWS customers benefit from a cloud-based network architecture designed to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. However, many organizations also require additional advanced security solutions. Fortinet in cooperation with AWS provides a full suite of carrier-class security…

Credit to Author: Derek Manky| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 06:25:15 -0700

Today, Fortinet released our quarterly Threat Landscape Report for Q4 of 2016. The data in it was drawn from millions of security devices located around the world that analyze up to 50 billion threats a day. Which means that the conclusions and trends detailed in this report are based on over a trillion security events that occurred between Oct 1 and Dec 31, 2016.