Is My Smart Home Telling People What I Do Every Day?

2017 will forever be known as the year that the smart home started to take off.  Researchers estimate that Amazon has sold over 15 million Echo devices  to date. Plus, Google has sold another 5 million Google Homes.  The overall smart h… Continue reading Is My Smart Home Telling People What I Do Every Day?

Small and Medium Businesses in the Spotlight for Hackers

The question isn’t big or small business.  It’s valuable or not valuable data. There is a common misconception among both businesses and service providers and it goes something like this: Small and medium businesses are not the focus of hackers these days, this is a large enterprise problem. The myth goes on that hackers must be focused […]

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Could Your Local Car Dealer, Bank or Doctor’s Office be Next?

What do local car dealers, hospitals and banks all have in common? At first glance, not much. However, all of them have become recent hacker targets. Why now when other, much larger corporate entities have traditionally been targets? One word – resources. Their resources, both network and personnel, are stretched thin. With the increased complexity and […]

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The Money Behind DDoS Managed Security Services

In a recent Light Reading webinar, Principal Heavy Reading Analyst Jim Hodges and I discussed the growing need for Managed Security Services. DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex, lasting more than 24 hours in some cases. The attacks aren’t limited to specific industries or company sizes anymore, and push stretched internal IT resources to the […]

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Enterprises are asking for help to protect their data. Here’s the answer service providers should provide.

Big. Small. Public. Private. Government. Retail. B2B. Non-profit. Hackers don’t care about the size or purpose of the organizations they attack. They’re bombarding networks all over the globe with sophisticated multi-vector DDoS attacks, looking to grab any data from which they can profit. Enterprises admit they are unprepared to defend against these sophisticated attacks. A […]

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The Changing World of Service Provider CPE (Part 2)

For Service Providers, Universal Customer Premise Equipment (uCPE) is getting more interesting every day.  IHS Market analyst, Michael Howard, said in a recent SDxCentral article that “the uCPE [universal customer premises equipment] phenomenon is an almost perfect storm of five trends, whether it is white box, grey box, or more proprietary. This new uCPE market is […]

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The Changing World of Service Provider CPE

Recently I spoke on security in Austin at the Big Communications Event, where Verizon announced their uCPE (Universal Customer Premise Equipment) platform. Notably, they are choosing a white box platform from Adva running Openstack on a generic Linux server with a KVM hypervisor. Verizon’s new platform will enable them to deploy the device as a generic piece […]

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The Economics of Cyber-Attacks

How to Provide State of the Art Protection against Real World Threats We live in a world where increasing numbers of complex cyber breach tools are available on the Darknet. But what is the Darknet and how do we protect against it? The Darknet is an anonymous and obfuscated section of the internet where criminals […]

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Web Internet Companies and Carriers are Deciding to Just be Friends

As the Carrier vs. cloud competitor discussion has raged over the past few years, it seems there has been a truce called in the last few months.  Rewind back a few years ago and the Web Internet Companies (WICs) and Carriers were mortal enemies fighting over the same space.  As such, Carriers moved to buy […]

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