by Todd O'Bert | Jan 14, 2021 | Implementation and Optimization, Security Posture
Last year we saw a big increase in Ransomware activity and that’s only going to increase in 2021. If you drill into how much money attacking organizations are making, its easy to see why. Some organizations are believed to be earning hundreds of millions of dollars...
by Todd O'Bert | Jan 14, 2021 | Business Side of Security, Security Posture
In the 2000’s many end users believed that Anti-virus was a commodity. It wasn’t hard to find Security Companies that agreed with this notion. In those days the argument was simple to make, there are few kinds of threats that can be stopped with a signature. The...
by Todd O'Bert | Jan 10, 2020 | Implementation and Optimization, Security Posture
There is a great documentary from 2016 called Zero Days. It covers StuxNet, how it brought down Nuclear reactors in Iran, and who was potentially behind it (Israel and the United States.) Spoiler alert, but one of the final commentaries is that this attack led Iran...
by Todd O'Bert | Sep 30, 2019 | Implementation and Optimization, Security Posture
HTTPS Inspection at the Gateway Stops More Threats at the Perimeter. NextGen Firewalls can be a great deterrent against ransomware. They can detect when a machine is trying to get to known bad parts of the internet and block it. They can use content and...
by Pete Greco | Aug 20, 2019 | Security Posture
Cybersecurity has always been a rapidly evolving field, after all, security needs to try to keep up with hackers, malware, and other threats. Today, the latest evolution in cybersecurity is the use of AI to predict threats. Today, we’re seeing a wave of...
by Pete Greco | Aug 1, 2019 | Product Education, Security Posture
Public Cloud Breaches We have a new product from Sophos called Cloud Optix. It provides security visibility across the big 3 public clouds and a few others. As I was doing my due diligence to understand the threat landscape and where a product like this can be...
