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WAN challenges steer auto-rental firm to SASE

SASE helps global car-rental company Sixt strengthen its network security architecture and ride out COVID-19 challenges.

Network training 2021: Businesses grow their own IT expertise to meet new challenges

NETWORK WORLD–With COVID-19 and a rising need for SASE, SD-WAN and cloud skills, businesses increasingly rely on in-house training to provide hands-on experience.

Who’s selling SASE and what do you get?

NETWORK WORLD–Secure access services edge is a young, cloud-based architecture that shows promise, but the elements that make it up differ depending on who’s selling…

What is SASE? A cloud service that marries SD-WAN with security

NETWORK WORLD–Secure access service edge is a Gartner model for streamlining network access, improving security, boosting network performance and reducing the number of vendors and…

SASE helps healthcare company pivot to support remote workers

NETWORK WORLD–TrialCard rolls out secure access service edge (SASE), which combines SD-WAN capabilities with network security services.

SASE could bolster security for remote workers

NETWORK WORLD–Surge in telework drives interest in secure access service edge (SASE), which combines SD-WAN capabilities with network security services.

Enterprises roll out private 5G while standards, devices, coverage evolve

NETWORK WORLD–Early adopters are beginning to test private 5G deployments, inspired by the promise of superior performance and support for previously infeasible applications.

5G is poised to transform manufacturing

NETWORK WORLD–5G wireless holds much promise for manufacturing facilities, largely for its speed and low latency, so a few early adopters are buying into the…

Private 5G keeps Whirlpool driverless vehicles rolling

NETWORK WORLD–When interference disrupted the Wi-Fi guidance for driverless vehicles in one of its factories, bringing the vehicles to a halt and backing up production,…

Cybercrooks fight over DDoS attack resources

As more groups get into the denial-of-service attack business they’re starting to get in each other’s way

Ad network takes steps to reduce fraud

The fraud rates for online ads are scary, with advertisers losing billions of dollars each year.Last week, Pixalate released a report showing that 35 percent…

Automated mitigation on endpoint devices and networks can be tricky

Many companies have automated systems in place for preventing, detecting, and investigating security incidents, but automating the incident response and mitigation process for networks and…

How the insurance industry could change the game for security

The recent growth in the cyber insurance market is already improving cybersecurity in some industry segments, and has the potential to do more — if…

Latest OWASP Top 10 looks at APIs, web apps

The new release of the OWASP Top 10 list is out for public comment from the Open Web Application Security Project, and while most of…

Cyberespionage, ransomware big gainers in new Verizon breach report

Verizon released its tenth annual breach report this morning, and cyberespionage and ransomware were the big gainers in 2016.Cyberspionage accounted for 21 percent of cases…

What it takes to become a data security strategist

By the time John Kronick became a data security strategist a few years ago, he’d already been in the security industry for 20 years. But…

What it takes to become a security systems administrator

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Don’t pay ransoms. But if you must, here’s where to buy the Bitcoins

Ransomware grew into a $1 billion industry last year, and ransom payments now account for nearly 10 percent of the entire Bitcoin economy.Avoiding becoming part…

After Amazon outage, HealthExpense worries about cloud lock-in

Financial services companies as popular targets of cybercriminals for the obvious reason — they’re where the money’s at. And health care companies have medical records,…

Expert: NY breach report highlights third-party risk

New York reported a record high number of breaches last year, just after a new set of cybersecurity regulations went into effect in the state.”In…

Bitcoin rise fuels social media scams

The price of a single Bitcoin passed that of an ounce of gold for the first time this month, and scammers were quick to get…

Experts: US needs a federal CISO

Last week, the Trump administration announced the appointment of a White House cybersecurity coordinator. That’s a good first step, security experts say, but the government…

Experts divided on value of Cyber National Guard

This past weekend at SXSW, two Congressmen suggested that the U.S. create a cybersecurity reserves system, similar to the National Guard, but the idea has…

Expert: Apple may have deployed unauthorized patch by mistake

Last month, reports came out that Apple accidentally installed a fake firmware patch on internal development servers. That’s a lesson to all companies to be…

Danes targeted by malware spread through Dropbox

Earlier this week, Danish-speaking users were hit by malware spread through Dropbox, but the company responded quickly to shut down the attack. According to a…

Researchers link Middle East attacks to new victim in Europe

Kaspersky Labs announced new research this morning that shows some links between the massive Shamoon attack that took down 35,000 computers in Saudi Arabia to…

Security pros most worried about clouds, mobile

Companies were least prepared to assess the security risks of cloud and mobile technologies, according to a survey of cybersecurity professionals released this morning.Around 60…

AI is coming, and will take some jobs, but no need to worry

The capabilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning are accelerating, and many cybersecurity tasks currently performed by humans will be automated. There will still be…

Scholars, infosec experts call for action on Russian hacking

In the wake of reports about Russian involvement in fake news and hacks against political targets leading up to the recent presidential election, scholars and…

Report: Most cybercriminals earn $1,000 to $3,000 a month

Most cybercriminals make between $1,000 and $3,000 a month, but 20 percent earn $20,000 a month or more, according to a recent report.The data is…