YL Ventures expands advisory board with 24 cybersecurity executives

YL Ventures, the Silicon Valley headquartered seed-stage venture capital firm focusing on Israeli cybersecurity innovation, announced a major expansion of its Venture Advisory Board. The four existing advisors (Tom Baltis, CISO of Delta Dental Insuranc… Continue reading YL Ventures expands advisory board with 24 cybersecurity executives

Are there too many cybersecurity companies?

The most potent global threat in 2018 may not be armed conflict or civil unrest, but cybersecurity. While cybersecurity awareness has increased with high profile breaches in recent years, the core problem remains of how industries can protect themselve… Continue reading Are there too many cybersecurity companies?

IoT botnet bypasses firewalls to get to ZyXEL modems

NewSky Security’s honeypots have detected a new IoT botnet in the making. The botnet was named DoubleDoor, as it leverages two distinct backdoors to get to the target: ZyXEL PK5001Z modems. The DoubleDoor attacks What’s interesting about th… Continue reading IoT botnet bypasses firewalls to get to ZyXEL modems

Juniper Issues Security Alert Tied to Routers and Switches

Juniper warned Thursday of a high-risk bug in the GD graphics library used in several versions of its Junos OS. Continue reading Juniper Issues Security Alert Tied to Routers and Switches

DUO New Zealand and McAfee join forces – Enterprise Security Weekly #48

Automating all the things, Juniper Networks opens a software-defined security ecosystem, millions of devices are running out-of-date systems, DUO New Zealand and McAfee join forces, and more enterprise news! Full Show NotesVisit http://securityweekly.c… Continue reading DUO New Zealand and McAfee join forces – Enterprise Security Weekly #48

Software-defined secure networking is ideal for hybrid cloud security

We tend to use the nebulous term “the cloud” as a catch-all phrase that implies any type of hosted environment, but it’s important to dig beneath the term when network security is at stake. In reality, “the cloud” can actually take a number of different forms. Compute capabilities can be managed in a cloud service provider environment and server workloads migrated into a managed service offering – the most traditional and popular cloud approach. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions like Salesforce or Office 365 can be used to receive cloud provider services without agencies having to define anything about the applications themselves. There are also cloud-native applications, such as microservices, which can be threaded and delivered in various regions of the cloud environment at any time. Each of these approaches can test an agency’s perimeter security efforts in their own way, which is why it is critical for us to look at […]

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Software-defined secure networking is ideal for hybrid cloud security

We tend to use the nebulous term “the cloud” as a catch-all phrase that implies any type of hosted environment, but it’s important to dig beneath the term when network security is at stake. In reality, “the cloud” can actually take a number of different forms. Compute capabilities can be managed in a cloud service provider environment and server workloads migrated into a managed service offering – the most traditional and popular cloud approach. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions like Salesforce or Office 365 can be used to receive cloud provider services without agencies having to define anything about the applications themselves. There are also cloud-native applications, such as microservices, which can be threaded and delivered in various regions of the cloud environment at any time. Each of these approaches can test an agency’s perimeter security efforts in their own way, which is why it is critical for us to look at […]

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Implant leaked by Shadow Brokers targets Juniper’s NetScreen firewalls

Juniper Networks has become the latest company to acknowledge that one of the implants leaked by the Shadow Brokers targets some of their products. Cisco and Fortinet did the same a few days earlier. “Juniper Networks is investigating the recent release of files reported to have been taken from the so-called Equation Group,” Juniper employee Derrick Scholl explained in a post. “As part of our analysis of these files, we identified an attack against NetScreen … More Continue reading Implant leaked by Shadow Brokers targets Juniper’s NetScreen firewalls

Juniper Hotfixes Shut Down IPv6 DDoS Vulnerability

Juniper Networks announced patches for a serious vulnerability in the handling of IPv6 packets that is says could leave its Junos OS and JUNOSe routers open to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Continue reading Juniper Hotfixes Shut Down IPv6 DDoS Vulnerability