U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a long-expected executive order that bans the purchase of telecommunication equipment from nations deemed to pose a spying risk. Also, Huawei was banned by the Commerce Department from buying U.S. components without obtaining a license first.
The rapid pace of technological advancement has brought with it the emergence of a number of pain points
as each new technology poses a host of new security challenges. Digital transformation creates challenges
for any organization, but for smaller enterprises with a more compact staff, these changes risk...
It is not uncommon to hear about the perpetual shortage of skilled personnel in the cybersecurity industry. The 2017 Frost & Sullivan/(ISC)2 Global Information Workforce Study concluded that by 2022, the industry would face a 1.8 million worker shortfall.1
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There's good reason that's an increasingly common battle cry among cyber security professionals: Fresh digital security threats continually emerge from new and unexpected sources. Just consider the sudden spread of viruses like WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya, the expansion of ransomware threats, the growth in coinmining...
Attackers are in a constant race to update and refine their approach to stay a step ahead of cybersecurity
professionals. Recently, cybercriminals have adjusted the delivery mechanism of their "payload" away from
traditional attack methods. Most often, security breaches are associated with a malicious executable...
Historically, the most damaging breaches occur months or even years before the organization realizes it. By the time the breach is discovered, enormous financial and subsequent reputational loses have accrued. In 2018, a major hotel chain reported a customer data breach where attackers had been mining information...
As governments around the world continue plans to build out their nations' 5G networks, worries persist about whether Chinese manufacturers can be trusted. But the British government apparently is ready to allow Huawei to supply "noncore" parts of its network, and the Netherlands may be ready to follow suit.
The world of work is mobile and distributed, particularly for large organizations and global brands. These organizations in finance, consulting, technology, government, and more tend to have many branch offices and traveling workers handling their clients' sensitive information. It's challenging to scale secure...
The skyrocketing adoption of Microsoft Office 365 has made it a valuable target for cybercriminals. While Microsoft's security tools and capabilities are a great start, many enterprises moving to Office 365 are finding that they need greater protection across all their cloud applications. The Palo Alto Networks...
Blocking DNS-based threats is a major challenge. DNS is everywhere and critical to running your business. It also represents a pervasive but easily overlooked attack surface, and bad actors are using this to their advantage.
Our Unit 42 threat research team reports that more than 80 percent of malware uses DNS to...
The current landscape of networking and security overlay products are creating administrative problems with cost and complexity, and falling short on the protections that organizations need. Learn about how Palo Alto Networks is changing the game with GlobalProtect Cloud Service and Aperture.
Changes in development models, architecture designs, and the infrastructure where we run applications over the past 5-10 years have made modern applications look nothing like they did a decade ago. So why are most companies still using legacy web application firewall (WAF) defenses that were not built for modern web...
SOC processes are broken, analysts are feeling the cybersecurity job fatigue, and enterprises are still at risk. SOC leaders often struggle to understand how to make their teams more effective and end up spending their budget on point solutions that add to the problem of data overload. How do you improve security...
Watch this brief video interview to learn more about how the city of Westland achieved their security goals by harnessing AI to gain the most real-time visibility into their environment.
Cyber criminals are taking relentless aim at financial institutions. Cargills Bank is taking a proactive approach to better safeguarding customers with a cognitive security solution, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson. Analysts can readily examine a broad range of threat data and gain actionable insights to make decisions...
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