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What a data breach means to people and businesses
Data breaches have become so common that it seems like there are two types of businesses in the world: those that have had a data breach, and those that eventually will. And even if your company has not had a data breach itself, it has likely been affected by a data breach: 98% of organizations surveyed in one report said at least one third-party vendor of theirs had suffered a data breach. There were 3,205 publicly reported data compromises in 2023, a stunning 78% increase over 2022.
What a data breach means to people and businesses
Data breaches have become so common that it seems like there are two types of businesses in the world: those that have had a data breach, and those that eventually will. And even if your company has not had a data breach itself, it has likely been affected by a data breach: 98% of organizations surveyed in one report said at least one third-party vendor of theirs had suffered a data breach. There were 3,205 publicly reported data compromises in 2023, a stunning 78% increase over 2022.
The New Era of Network and Cybersecurity in Schools | Cradlepoint
Tailored filtering, management, and isolation solutions ensure K-12 network and internet security keep pace with an explosion of connectivity across campuses Technology is an indispensable educational asset. Today, tablets, laptops, and interactive whiteboards are ubiquitous in classrooms, alongside online platforms accessible from anywhere. These tools have transformed classrooms, auditoriums, and even buses into vibrant learning hubs that foster collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.
How Does Remote Browser Isolation Improve Enterprise Cybersecurity?
Remote browser isolation provides an added layer of security to protect enterprise networks from evolving web-based threats Let's face it — accidental clicks happen to the best of us. A seemingly harmless click on what appears to be a routine email attachment, and suddenly your computer is wrestling with malware like an unwanted houseguest. Slip-ups are bound to happen, making it crucial for enterprises to proactively safeguard their data and systems by minimizing the risk of malicious attacks.
Peter Silva
By Peter Silva Generative AI empowers its users to work fast, better and more efficiently. Alas, this includes cybercriminals, who are using malicious GenAI platforms to accelerate zero-day exploit creation. The post How GenAI is Supercharging Zero-Day Cyberattacks appeared first on Ericom Software ... Read More
The Top 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2024
As we bid farewell to 2023, tech experts are peering into the future, unveiling their insights for the upcoming year. For my yearly Top Ten list, I've been distilling the wisdom of other brilliant minds since 2012. Given the positive feedback I've received, I'm thrilled to continue the tradition and present my meticulously curated Top 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2024, this time brought to you by Ericom, the Cybersecurity Unit at Cradlepoint.
The Top 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2024
As we bid farewell to 2023, tech experts are peering into the future, unveiling their insights for the upcoming year. For my yearly Top Ten list, I’ve been distilling the wisdom of other brilliant minds since 2012. Given the positive feedback I’ve received, I’m thrilled to continue the tradition and present my meticulously curated Top 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2024, this time brought to you by Ericom, the Cybersecurity Unit at Cradlepoint.
Zero-Days and Ransomware Groups
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybercrime, the strategies adopted by ransomware groups are undergoing a significant transformation. A notable shift has been observed in the tactics used by these criminals to infiltrate systems and hold data for ransom. Historically, phishing had been the preferred method for breaching systems, exploiting human vulnerabilities to gain access.
Column: Public health needs Gov. David Ige’s support
Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! COVID-19 underscores the necessity of prioritizing public health in policy and practice. COVID-19’s impact will be felt for some time after it has receded from the forefront of day-to-day life in Hawaii. This includes the state budget, which was bolstered by the passage of the American Rescue Plan’s infusion of $1.6 billion. The uptick in tourism is boosting state and local tax revenues.
Hawaii lawmakers must reverse HIV budget cuts
Gov. David Ige’s latest proposed health budget for the state of Hawaii contains a massive 64% cut to HIV-related services that will impact thousands of Hawaii residents. If this proposed cut becomes law, the state will experience a significant reduction in access to and availability of HIV treatment and prevention services, threatening the public health and safety of Hawaii’s most vulnerable communities.
2019 - half empty or half full?
2019 - half empty or half full? Published on 23 July 2019 By Peter Silva Breaches Many personal records are half empty due to the continued rash of intrusions while the crooks are half full of our personal information, along with many ransom payments. Cyberattacks, data breaches, and ransomware have brought 2019's total to around 5.9 billion exposed records through April. That's around 1.46 billion a month. I continue to get alerts for one of my email addresses being found on the dark web.
So, You Wanna Be A Security Star?
Well, here’s where you can start and learn the ropes. There are over 350,000 security analyst job openings currently available and many have starting salaries in the six-digits. On top of that, organizations are struggling to find good security analysts due to the shortage of cybersecurity skills. And that will continue to be the case in the coming years. There could be a 1.8 million cybersecurity talent shortage by 2022. (1) So what’s the deal? Why is this happening?
Blog Roll 2017 | news.sys-con.com
Quantum Computing is becoming quite the hot topic lately. With research being done by Google, IBM, Microsoft, universities, and a number of other players, it’s looking this is really going to happen. In fact, Google may just be weeks away from announcing the Quantum Supremacy milestone. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of Quantum Supremacy yet, it’s basically the point where a quantum co... Quantum Computing is becoming quite the hot topic lately.
The Top 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2018 | @ThingsExpo #DX #AI #ML #IoT
Select rating Give it 1/5 Give it 2/5 Give it 3/5 Give it 4/5 Give it 5/5 The time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out their annual predictions for the coming year. Copying off since 2012, rather than thinking up my own, I figured I’d regurgitate what many others expect to happen.
Post of the Week: SSL on a Virtual Server
This month, an AI (artificial intelligence) system passed a medical exam in China for the first time. I wonder how its bedside manner will be? In addition, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot named Sophia. With all these rapid advancements, I think it is time we explore the spiritual life of robots. Up till recently, programmers coded and configured algorithms, AI, automation and machine... This month, an AI (artificial intelligence) system passed a medical exam in China for the first time.
F5 Certified Practice Exams
DevOps teams have more on their plate than ever. As infrastructure needs grow, so does the time required to ensure that everything's running smoothly. This makes automation crucial - especially in the server and network monitoring world. Server monitoring tools can save teams time by automating server management and providing real-time performance updates. As budgets reset for the New Year, there... DevOps teams have more on their plate than ever.
The OWASP Top 10 - 2017 vs. BIG-IP ASM
Synametrics to Exhibit at @CloudExpo New York SYS-CON Events announced today that Synametrics Technologies will exhibit at SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Synametrics Technologies is a privately held company based in Plainsboro, New Jersey that has been providing solutions for the developer community since 1997. Based on the success of its initial product...
Post of the Week: BIG-IP APM Policy Sync
Digital Transformation is amplifying mainframe as mission critical to business growth more than ever before. With 70% of the world's corporate data and over half of the world's enterprise applications running on mainframe computers, they are at the core of just about every transaction. A single transaction can, in fact, drive up to 100 system interactions. The continued increase in mainframe trans...
[video] @GoogleCloud's DX Keynote | @ExpoDX @VidyaNagarajan #AI #DigitalTransformation
Select rating Give it 1/5 Give it 2/5 Give it 3/5 Give it 4/5 Give it 5/5 Why Connected Companies Win: Your Roadmap to Cloud Success Coca-Cola's Google powered digital signage system lays the groundwork for a more valuable connection between Coke and its customers. Digital signs pair software with high-resolution displays so that a message can be changed instantly based on what the operator wants to communicate or sell.
Mitigate L7 DDoS with BIG-IP ASM
Digital Transformation is amplifying mainframe as mission critical to business growth more than ever before. With 70% of the world's corporate data and over half of the world's enterprise applications running on mainframe computers, they are at the core of just about every transaction. A single transaction can, in fact, drive up to 100 system interactions. The continued increase in mainframe trans...
Lightboard Lessons: What are Bots?
Gone are the days when application development was the daunting task of the highly skilled developers backed with strong IT skills, low code application development has democratized app development and empowered a new generation of citizen developers. There was a time when app development was in the domain of people with complex coding and technical skills. We called these people by various names...
VDI Gateway Federation with BIG-IP
Gone are the days when application development was the daunting task of the highly skilled developers backed with strong IT skills, low code application development has democratized app development and empowered a new generation of citizen developers. There was a time when app development was in the domain of people with complex coding and technical skills. We called these people by various names...
Prevent a Spoof of an X-Forwarded-For Request with BIG-IP
Gone are the days when application development was the daunting task of the highly skilled developers backed with strong IT skills, low code application development has democratized app development and empowered a new generation of citizen developers. There was a time when app development was in the domain of people with complex coding and technical skills. We called these people by various names...
DevCentral’s Featured Member for November - Nathan Britton
Gone are the days when application development was the daunting task of the highly skilled developers backed with strong IT skills, low code application development has democratized app development and empowered a new generation of citizen developers. There was a time when app development was in the domain of people with complex coding and technical skills. We called these people by various names...
Lightboard Lessons: What is DDoS?
Gone are the days when application development was the daunting task of the highly skilled developers backed with strong IT skills, low code application development has democratized app development and empowered a new generation of citizen developers. There was a time when app development was in the domain of people with complex coding and technical skills. We called these people by various names...
Selective Compression on BIG-IP
Gone are the days when application development was the daunting task of the highly skilled developers backed with strong IT skills, low code application development has democratized app development and empowered a new generation of citizen developers. There was a time when app development was in the domain of people with complex coding and technical skills. We called these people by various names...
DevCentral’s Featured Member for October - Jad Tabbara
Every few years, a disruptive force comes along that prompts us to reframe our understanding of what something means, or how it works. For years, the notion of what a computer is and how you make one went pretty much unchallenged. Then virtualization came along, followed by cloud computing, and most recently containers. Suddenly the old rules no longer seemed to apply, or at least they didn’t alwa...
Add a Data Collection Device to your BIG-IQ Cluster
Every few years, a disruptive force comes along that prompts us to reframe our understanding of what something means, or how it works. For years, the notion of what a computer is and how you make one went pretty much unchallenged. Then virtualization came along, followed by cloud computing, and most recently containers. Suddenly the old rules no longer seemed to apply, or at least they didn’t alwa...
Legacy Application SSO with BIG-IP and Okta
The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time. CD is an especially great option for projects that require multiple and frequent contributions to be integrated. But… securing CICD best practices is an emerging, essential, yet little understood practice for DevOps teams and their Cloud Service Providers. The only way to get CICD to work in a highly secure enviro... The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time.
Lightboard Lessons: Connecting Cars with BIG-IP
The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time. CD is an especially great option for projects that require multiple and frequent contributions to be integrated. But… securing CICD best practices is an emerging, essential, yet little understood practice for DevOps teams and their Cloud Service Providers. The only way to get CICD to work in a highly secure enviro... The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time.
Lightboard Lessons: Connecting Cars with BIG-IP
I light up how BIG-IP and Solace work together in a MQTT connected car infrastructure.
Lightboard Lessons: What is HTTP?
Shiny new toy syndrome. We all see it, we all experience it. Who doesn’t like the shiny new toy? Whenever a new technology hits the high points of hype, everyone starts talking about it like it will solve all their business problems. Sadly, frequently without even looking at what problem they are trying to solve. Blockchain is one of those technologies. According to Gartner’s latest report on the... Shiny new toy syndrome. We all see it, we all experience it. Who doesn’t like the shiny new toy?
Automatically Update your BIG-IP Pool Using the Service Discovery iApp
Shiny new toy syndrome. We all see it, we all experience it. Who doesn’t like the shiny new toy? Whenever a new technology hits the high points of hype, everyone starts talking about it like it will solve all their business problems. Sadly, frequently without even looking at what problem they are trying to solve. Blockchain is one of those technologies. According to Gartner’s latest report on the... Shiny new toy syndrome. We all see it, we all experience it. Who doesn’t like the shiny new toy?
DevCentral’s Featured Member for September - Rob Carr
Shiny new toy syndrome. We all see it, we all experience it. Who doesn’t like the shiny new toy? Whenever a new technology hits the high points of hype, everyone starts talking about it like it will solve all their business problems. Sadly, frequently without even looking at what problem they are trying to solve. Blockchain is one of those technologies. According to Gartner’s latest report on the... Shiny new toy syndrome. We all see it, we all experience it. Who doesn’t like the shiny new toy?
DevCentral’s Featured Member for October - Jad Tabbara
Jad Tabbara has been a Security Engineer with e-Xpert Solutions in Switzerland since 2014. He graduated from INSA de Lyon FRANCE with a master degree in telecommunications and nowadays, work takes the most part of my time, but happy to succeed in his endeavors. As hobbies, he enjoys playing sports (soccer, tennis), traveling, sharing time with family and is DevCentral’s Featured Member for October.
Add a Data Collection Device to your BIG-IQ Cluster
Gathering and analyzing data helps organizations make intelligent decisions about their IT infrastructure. You may need a data collection device (DCD) to collect BIG-IP data so you can manage that device with BIG-IQ. BIG-IQ is a platform that manages your devices and the services they deliver. Let’s look at how to discover and add a data collection device in BIG-IQ v5.2. You can add a new data collection device to your BIG-IQ cluster so that you can start managing it using the BIG-IP device data.
Lightboard Lessons: What is HTTP?
In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up some #basics about HTTP. HTTP defines the structure of messages between web components such as browser or command line clients, servers like Apache or Nginx, and proxies like the BIG-IP. VIDEO ps Related:
Automatically Update your BIG-IP Pool Using the Service Discovery iApp
Let’s look at how to automatically add members to your BIG-IP pool by using the Service Discovery iApp. Whenever you deploy a BIG-IP Virtual Edition by using one of the templates on the F5 Github site, this iApp is installed on the BIG-IP. The idea behind this iApp is you assign a tag to a virtual machine in the cloud and then BIG-IP automatically discovers it and adds it to the pool.
Is 2017 Half Empty or Half Full? | @ThingsExpo #AI #ML #DX #IoT #SmartCities
With 2017 crossing the half way point, let’s look at some technology trends thus far. Breaches: Many personal records are half empty due to the continued rash of intrusions while the crooks are half full of our personal information along with some ransom payments. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), there have been 7,689 breaches since 2005 (when they started tracking) compromising – get this – 900,315,392 records. Almost 3 times the U.S. population.
DevCentral’s Featured Member for September - Rob Carr
Rob Carr is a Senior Trainer/Professional Services Consultant with Red Education Pty in Australia, covering the Oceania and Asia markets. He has done training and engagements from New Zealand to Taiwan and points in between. About 60% of his time is running F5 courses, ranging from the from the introductory Admin course through the high-level courses like AFM, ASM or iRules. He enjoys the mix of work, where teaching allows him to be social and PS work lets him delve into the technical nitty-gritty.
Is 2017 Half Empty or Half Full? | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #Cloud
With 2017 crossing the half way point, let’s look at some technology trends thus far. Breaches: Many personal records are half empty due to the continued rash of intrusions while the crooks are half full of our personal information along with some ransom payments. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), there have been 7,689 breaches since 2005 (when they started tracking) compromising – get this – 900,315,392 records. Almost 3 times the U.S. population.
Lightboard Lessons: What is BIG-IQ?
In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up many of the tasks you can do with BIG-IQ, BIG-IQ centralizes management, licensing, monitoring, and analytics for your dispersed BIG-IP infrastructure. If you have more than a few F5 BIG-IP's within your organization, managing devices as separate entities will become an administrative bottleneck and slow application deployments.
Is 2017 Half Empty or Half Full? | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #Cloud
With 2017 crossing the half way point, let’s look at some technology trends thus far. Breaches: Many personal records are half empty due to the continued rash of intrusions while the crooks are half full of our personal information along with some ransom payments. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), there have been 7,689 breaches since 2005 (when they started tracking) compromising – get this – 900,315,392 records. Almost 3 times the U.S. population.
Is 2017 Half Empty or Half Full? | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #Cloud
How do cars talk to each other today? One driver can honk at another. It's pretty crude. That is quickly changing though - and, for the most part, that's a good thing. Cars are becoming complex computers, expected to drive autonomously, download software updates regularly, and impress riders with the sound quality and entertainment value of a home theater. Soon, cars will be communicating with each other to do everything from switching lanes to balancing traffic congestion.
Lightboard Lessons: What is BIG-IQ?
This month has been more than exciting thanks to our recent merger with VersionOne. I am privileged to lead a great team at the newly expanded CollabNet. It is an honor to be a part of a team that makes daily strides to deliver value to customers through technical innovation, professionalism and hard work. As I think about our merger with VersionOne, I am not only enthusiastic about the new level... This month has been more than exciting thanks to our recent merger with VersionOne.
Is 2017 Half Empty or Half Full? | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #Cloud
With 2017 crossing the half way point, let’s look at some technology trends thus far. Breaches: Many personal records are half empty due to the continued rash of intrusions while the crooks are half full of our personal information along with some ransom payments. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), there have been 7,689 breaches since 2005 (when they started tracking) compromising – get this – 900,315,392 records. Almost 3 times the U.S. population.
Deploy an Auto-Scaled BIG-IP VE WAF in AWS
“You can’t stop the incessant march of economics” – Bill Schmarzo Okay, so it’s probably not cool to quote oneself, but hey, this is my blog and I get to do what I want. And for anyone who follows me knows, I love to “riff” on the game-changing power of economics. The “economics of big data” – where the cost to store, manage and analyze data is 20x to 100x cheaper than traditional analytics –...
Lightboard Lessons: BIG-IP ASM Layered Policies
“You can’t stop the incessant march of economics” – Bill Schmarzo Okay, so it’s probably not cool to quote oneself, but hey, this is my blog and I get to do what I want. And for anyone who follows me knows, I love to “riff” on the game-changing power of economics. The “economics of big data” – where the cost to store, manage and analyze data is 20x to 100x cheaper than traditional analytics –...
Deploy an Auto-Scaled BIG-IP VE WAF in AWS
Today let’s look at how to create and deploy an auto-scaled BIG-IP Virtual Edition Web Application Firewall by using a Cloud Formation Template (CFT) in AWS. CFTs are simply a quick way to spin up solutions that otherwise, you may have to create manually. The idea behind this CFT is it is going to create BIG-IP VE instances for you. These instances function as a firewall in front of your application.
Lightboard Lessons: BIG-IP ASM Layered Policies
In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up some use cases for BIG-IP ASM Layered Policies available in BIG-IP v13. With Parent and Child policies, you can: Impose mandatory policy elements on multiple policies; Create multiple policies with baseline protection settings; and Rapidly push changes to multiple policies. VIDEO ps
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