Healthcare providers require applications and online services to streamline processes, manage patient data and cut costs. The growth of online services and web-based content introduces new challenges, including managing and securing large volumes of patient data and 24×7 access to critical applications to ensure a quality experience for users. As healthcare organizations transition to electronic […]
The nature of DDoS attacks is changing. Not too long ago, large-scale network-layer floods were attackers’ tools of choice, using malformed TCP and UDP packets to take down targets with high volumes of network traffic. Over time, however, defenses have adapted to protect against such volumetric attacks, to the point where even most ISPs and […]
The last few months have seen enterprise IT changes at lightning speed. The pace is unlikely to slow. As the pandemic led to national stay-at-home orders, hundreds of millions of workers suddenly found themselves working from home. As internet traffic increases, it’s not only coming from an increased number of remote workers but also from […]
Last week, a social media platform announced that many of its high-profile user accounts were compromised. So let’s talk about the importance of securing user accounts, which is applicable to both individuals as well as organizations of any type that maintain consumer accounts. How Are Accounts Breached? There are several ways accounts can be breached, […]
The term “hybrid warfare” is difficult to define. How you define it may depend on how a government views hybrid threats. Hybrid warfare is no longer a subject that is exclusively studied by armed forces; the conversation has widened tremendously to include organizations and individuals who have found themselves targeted by this population centric, military […]
One of my customers recently experienced a DDoS attack. Well, sort of. They thought they were under attack and were about to invoke the DDoS mitigation service, but instead waited because they were not 100% sure it was an attack; it could have been an outage. Sound familiar? If so, you are not alone. There […]
Your cloud provider may blackhole YOU when under attack. Blackholing is a technique to mitigate DDoS attacks by discarding incoming or outgoing traffic silently (hence the name black hole). Service providers are using black holing to mitigate DDoS flood attacks by discarding excessive traffic destined for specific IP addresses under attack. The problem? It discards […]
Let’s face it. Regardless of whether you work for a service provider (SP), equipment vendor or analyst firm, very little has gone according to plan during the first half of 2020. And unfortunately, for many of us, the second half of this year doesn’t promise a return to full-on normalcy. But if there has been […]
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, telecommuting was gaining momentum. Analysis from FlexJobs and Global Workplace Analytics shows that remote work grew 44 percent in the last five years and is predicted to increase even more post-pandemic. When the pandemic hit, the transition to remote work was expedited dramatically, and the surge of newly remote workers meant businesses […]
Facebook Twitter Linkedin In the third installment of Radware Threat Researchers Live, Pascal Geenens and Daniel Smith share their expert insights into the latest network and application threats. Watch the clip below to hear about the recently disclosed NXNSAttack, the record 2.3Tbps DDoS attack on AWS, CallStranger (the UPnP flaw that exposes millions of network […]