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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:35 No CommentsAs we have lately read and seen, the style and sophistication of cyber attacks on organizations’ networks have become ever more complex. One type of attack that has had a lot of media coverage in the UK are DDoS attacks, with hacktivists using multiple IP addresses to attack one IP address within an organization, resulting [...]
According to a UK news website, the CEO of a large, really large, hardware vendor just noticed that the world is being ravaged by terrorists, and warned that a ”cyber-attack of 9/11 scale” is likely to take place in the near future. So now the terrorists are using cyber attacks. Hhmmm…selling security with FUD is not even [...]
I think we can laugh because it was foiled, but we should be chastened that it even exists as a potential threat. What a topical parallel to draw with the daily fight waged by information security professionals. What an analogy to illustrate the need for sophisticated intelligence gathering and analysis — and the reason why traditional [...]
Government agencies, like their private sector brethren, are knee deep in IT security challenges, threats, and regulations. While that’s not much of a shock, this might be – according to the Government Accountability Office, the number of reported security incidents increased by over 650 percent during fiscal years 2006–2010. At the same time, government agencies [...]
Earlier this week, IBM announced a network behavioral analysis (NBA) extension for its Network IPS offering which is based on the QRadar Security Intelligence platform. Using advanced behavioral analytics and anomaly detection, the new QRadar Network Anomaly Detection appliance continuously analyzes network traffic in real-time — using deep packet inspection and passive monitoring of Layer [...]