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Using East–West Network Visibility to Detect Threats in Later Stages of MITRE ATT&CK
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) calls "insufficient internal network monitoring" one of 10 most common network misconfigurations this year. Indeed, network analysis and visibility (NAV) remains a perennial challenge. As the boundaries around the traditional network disappear and the active threat landscape becomes more complex, enterprises need new methods and solutions to defend their performance, security, and continuity.
Myth Busting: You Can’t Use Packet Monitoring for Enterprise Security
True or False: Packet monitoring is best used for troubleshooting network or application problems, not cybersecurity. If you answered yes, you might be surprised to learn that many organizations use packet-based monitoring to better detect, investigate, and respond to security threats spread across an increasingly distributed networked infrastructure.
Tom Bienkowski
Tom Bienkowski has been involved in the network and security field for more than 20 years. During his tenure in the industry, he has worked for large enterprises as a network engineer as well as for multiple network management and security vendors in sales engineering/management, technical field marketing, and product management roles. In his current role as director of product marketing at NETSCOUT, he focuses on NETSCOUT’s industry-leading DDoS protection solutions.
Rethinking EDR: Why It Isn’t A Comprehensive Cybersecurity Solution
Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series is a collection of contributed articles written by industry experts in enterprise software categories. Tom Bienkowski of NETSCOUT breaks down why EDR isn’t the “end-all-be-all” solution, and why you should consider pairing it with an NDR. As a contemporary way to detect and thwart malicious activity, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems are a critical component for many companies’ overall cybersecurity strategy.
4 Steps for Fostering Collaboration Between IT Network and Security Teams
For some organizations, it may seem like IT networking and security professionals have different mandates. The networking team's goal is to ensure employees have fast, reliable access to core resources and applications. Security teams must always be on guard against data theft and damage. However, the truth is IT executives must bring network and security teams together to tackle the challenge of protecting their business, while providing ready, secure availability to information.
Four key cyber considerations for a post-pandemic world
This article originally appeared on the NETSCOUT blog. Click here to read the original in its entirety. The need for organizations and government agencies to shift and evolve quickly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in large-scale change for remote access architectures, as well as for cloud and cloud-delivered services. In many cases, there was increased adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) models. Of course, with these significant changes have come heightened cybersecurity risks.
Five things you didn't know about DDoS that could cost you
Even before the current pandemic, the types and velocity of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks were on the rise. And with the architectural changes brought about by COVID-19—such as greater reliance on VPN gateways as more employees work from home—organizations are at increased risk of disruption.
Fighting Back Against Powerful New DDoS Attack Vectors
By Tom Bienkowski, Director of Product Marketing, NETSCOUT Conniving hackers are launching sophisticated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks more quickly, which presents many risks for enterprises. Research shows there were 8.4 million DDoS attacks globally over the last year alone. That’s 23,000 hacks every day and 16 each minute.
Protecting VPNs from DDoS Attacks in the Age of Remote Work
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people than ever are working remotely. Because of this recent and rapid transition, users are accessing corporate resources from their homes and generating unprecedented amounts of network traffic.
Best practices for ddos mitigation in the terabit attack era
By Tom Bienkowski, Director, DDoS Product Marketing, NETSCOUT Arbor IoT botnets changed the DDoS attack landscape, but not necessarily in the way, many people thought they would. The Mirai IoT botnet was, initially and with much success, used to launch a high volume DDoS attack which left large parts of the internet inaccessible. After the Mirai botnet source code was released in October 2016, attackers innovated and diversified their toolkit.
Security Boulevard
Encryption is one of the most basic necessities in the security arsenal. It’s what makes it possible for banks to offer online banking and funds transfers, or for consumers to make purchases online using their credit or debit cards. It’s what protects the public’s online interaction with government agencies or health care providers. It should surprise no one, however, that encrypted services are prime targets of DDoS attacks.
Attacks on Encrypted Services
Encryption is one of the most basic necessities in the security arsenal. It’s what makes it possible for banks to offer online banking and funds transfers, or for consumers to make purchases online using their credit or debit cards. It’s what protects the public’s online interaction with government agencies or health care providers. It should surprise no one, however, that encrypted services are prime targets of DDoS attacks.
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How IoT Enabled a DDoS, and How to Avoid Being Part of It
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