by Christine Thome | Feb 4, 2021 | mobile threats, Security
Ransomware is nothing short of a cyber pestilence. Its financial impact in 2019 was estimated at at over $7.5 billion. And 2021 is off to an equally inauspicious start, with many potential attacks to be aware of, along with the massive SolarWinds supply chain...
by Christine Thome | Dec 28, 2020 | Cloud, Security
When COVID-19 forced office closures, enterprises either fast-tracked digital transformation initiatives or expanded IT resources to mobilize remote workers. Enabling hundreds, even thousands, of remote workers stretched traditional enterprise network security stacks...
by Christine Thome | Oct 7, 2020 | Security
Ransomware is a type of malware that cybercriminals use to extort money from their victims. Essentially, it encrypts a user’s systems and data, which prevents them from accessing their files until they pay a ransom in virtual currency to get a decryption key. But how...
by Christine Thome | Oct 2, 2020 | Networking, Security
Campus networks are undergoing another massive transition in the COVID teleworking era. With this fundamental shift and as administrators consider an interconnected IoT (Internet of Things) environment, the boundary between the office, home, teleworker and user is...
by Christine Thome | Oct 2, 2020 | Cloud, Security
Security information and event management (SIEM) technology is a useful tool for many organizations. Security analysts and incident responders rely on it as a single source of truth, with events and data pulled in from multiple sources. The single pane of glass is an...
by Christine Thome | Sep 24, 2020 | Security
If a midsize company decides to pay after a ransomware attack, chances are it’s not getting all of its encrypted data back, according to a session at this week’s Gartner’s Security & Risk Management Summit. “What we see is that about 4% of...
