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Why are we still talking about email security?

By Deryck Mitchelson, Field CISO EMEA, Check Point Software Technologies. Email security compromises are among the costliest in cyber. Last year, organizations lost over $2.7 billion in email fraud. Does this really need to continue, given the tools and resources available to security leaders?  The vast majority of CISOs do implement email security. However, there’s an […]

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Aviatrix is transforming cloud network security with distributed firewalling

Cloud networking solutions provider Aviatrix has launched a distributed cloud firewall offering in a bid to strengthen network security for application traffic on multicloud environments.

The offering is targeted at distributing both inspection and policy enforcement into the original path of application traffic, eliminating the need to redirect traffic to centralized firewalls or other network security services.

“Aviatrix is the first to deliver a distributed cloud firewall,” said Rod Stuhlmuller, vice president of solutions marketing at Aviatrix. “Customers are no longer constrained by last-generation firewall architectures in the cloud. This changes the game and allows enterprises to both reduce cloud infrastructure costs and improve security immediately across all their public cloud environments.”

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Russian national indicted for ransomware attacks against the US

Russian national, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, has been charged and indicted for launching ransomware attacks against thousands of victims in the country and across the world, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a press release.

The Department of State has also announced an award of up to $10 million for information that leads to the arrest and/or conviction of the Russian national.

“According to the indictment obtained in the District of New Jersey, from at least as early as 2020, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, aka Wazawaka, aka m1x, aka Boriselcin, aka Uhodiransomwar, allegedly participated in conspiracies to deploy three ransomware variants,” DOJ said in a statement.

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Organizations reporting cyber resilience are hardly resilient: Study

While most organizations have a cyber resilience program in place, more than half of them lack a comprehensive approach to assessing resilience, according to a study by Immersive Labs.

The study aimed at understanding business preparedness amidst growing incidents found a strong intent to strengthen cybersecurity capabilities driven by external threats.

“Rules of engagement for cyberthreat actors are constantly innovating to cause catastrophic and unavoidable situations,” said Michael Sampson, analyst at Osterman Research and author of the survey whitepaper. “Hence while cyber resilience is a hope for most organizations, the practices of building, testing, and improving cyber resilience are still immature at most organizations.”

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State-Sponsored Cybercrime Group`s Infrastructure Revealed

Researchers have uncovered previously unknown attack infrastructure used by Pakistani and Chinese entities operated by the state-sponsored group SideWinder. In a joint report, cybersecurity companies Group-IB and Bridewell say the threat actor uses 55 domains and IP addresses. At least since 2012, SideWinder has been active, using spear-phishing attacks to gain access to targeted environments. Among the […]

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EDR vs. Antivirus: Choose the Best Security Solution for Your Endpoints

Nowadays your business and your data need a carefully thought protection suit for at least two reasons. First, cybersecurity threats are becoming more numerous and more sophisticated as time goes by. Just think that 450.000 types of malware are noticed day by day. You are compelled to stay up to date with the newest malicious […]

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