Playing out the fears everybody has on IoT security, on Friday the 21st October 2016 the Dyn company received a wave of DDoS attacks. Dyn handles “ visibility and control into cloud and public Internet resources ”. Due to its internet infrastructure role and the importance of its active operations,
Next Generation Firewalls, abbreviated NGFW, enforce network cyber security by bringing a modern solution to current threats. The upgraded hardware/software based protection system acts in detecting and/or blocking sophisticated attacks by reuniting more types of key assets . In fact, this type of
Ignorance is bliss. As much as it may have banked the wisdom of ages, this saying does not apply in cyber-security. Having your employees blissfully unaware of the risks, vulnerabilities and dangers lurking behind their interactions with technology can prove extremely costly over time. Human
Although a lot of unflattering virtual ink has been consumed to characterize hackers and many alarming things have been said about their skills, it is however incontestable that these people are extremely gifted, IT-wise. Turning the hackers’ talent toward law-abiding activities can prove a very u
Cognitive computing simulates the human thought process in an artificial intelligence (cognitive) environment. Teaching a computer how to use the type of unstructured information usually employed by security analysts requires tools such as data mining, pattern recognition, human-computer
When two or more clouds (public, private) are bound together, although they remain distinct, a cloud service is called hybrid cloud . The connection between the two or more distinct clouds can concern the location, the dedicated resources or simply the cloud services, allowing aggregation,
The December 2015 Ukraine cyber-attack that took control of the Prykarpattyaoblenergo Control Center (PCC) in the Ivano-Frankivsk region serves as study-case for all cyber-security researchers concerned with possible similar incidents in the US. The said APT attack was performed via a malware
Smartphones head towards touch-based continuous authentication – a type of permanent identity validation that is also passive, since it does not hinder in any way other human-phone interactions that may be taking place during the same time. That would eliminate the risks of intrusion currently at t
If the denomination of acoustic fingerprinting does not fully reveal the core concept, then maybe defining this type of fingerprinting as the mark/pattern based on a digital summary extracted from a short audio signal (summary that includes identifying, recognizing and tracking the audio source)
In a pioneering move, cyber-security expert Bruce Schneier approached the risks linked to embedded systems as early as January 2014. Embedded systems cyber-security raised a certain amount of interest in 2015, and will represent an even hotter topic in 2016. Taking a broad view on what embedded
