“Data Encryption,” “Zero Trust” – A Practical Review of Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
In the aftermath of the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline that crippled the nation’s supply of oil and gas for almost a week, U.S. President Joe Biden, on May 11, 2021, signed an Executive Order. The order issued a slew of cybersecurity directives to companies on contract with the Federal Government ... Read More
Cyberattack Cuts Off Critical U.S. Fuel Pipeline – Another Lesson in Cybersecurity Learned the Hard Way
On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline, the U.S’s top fuel pipeline operator, came under a ransomware attack that forced it to shut down all fuel operations temporarily. Colonial operates the largest refined products pipeline in the U.S., transporting 100 million gallons or 2.5 million barrels per day, according to its ... Read More
Machine Identity – The Often Overlooked Piece of the Cybersecurity Puzzle: Takeaways From Gartner Analyst David Mahdi’s Session
On Day 2 of Simplify PKI 2021, David Mahdi returned to give another cracking session, this time on Machine Identities. Machine identities is a concept he touched upon briefly in his previous session on Journey to a World Class Crypto Center of Excellence (get insights from the session here), and ... Read More
Journey to a World-Class Crypto Center of Excellence – An Exposition by Gartner’s David Mahdi
As the curtains closed on Simplify PKI 2021 – AppViewX’s very first event on all things crypto, we couldn’t help but marvel at the wealth of insights that the sessions had generated. Each session was an eye-opener, and each presenter had something that made the audience (and even the other ... Read More
The Equations Governing SSL/TLS Certificate Management, Expirations, and Outages
Reading the title of the blog, you might be curious, or even slightly intimidated, to find the word ‘equations’ in it. Fear not; these equations aren’t some complex mathematical laws derived using arcane parameters, but simple, logical statements to help you achieve the ultimate goal: zero outages due to unplanned ... Read More
Google Voice Outage: Expired TLS Certificate Brings Down Yet Another Giant
Between February 15th and February 16th, 2021, Google Voice, Google’s telephone service, experienced a worldwide outage that prevented its users from making and receiving Voice over Internet (VoIP) calls for over four hours. On February 28th, 2021, Google published an incident report stating the cause of the outage – an ... Read More
Global Logistics Company Uses AppViewX to Automate Certificate Lifecycle Management
The customer is an expert in securely delivering packages to different corners of the world, but to secure their digital communications, they needed the help of another expert. Their five-member PKI team was haunted by low visibility into digital certificate locations, manual PKI management practices, and cert-related application outages. Core ... Read More
How to Prevent Digital Certificate Theft – A Lesson From a Recent Breach
On January 12, 2021, Mimecast, a company that provides cloud-based email management services for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365 customers, reported a digital certificate compromise by a “sophisticated threat actor.” This digital certificate is used by some customers to connect Mimecast products to their Microsoft 365 Exchange software securely ... Read More
Gartner Recognizes AppViewX as a Representative Vendor in its 2020 Market Guide
Recently, Gartner named AppViewX a Representative Vendor in the Pure-Play Network Orchestration category of its 2020 Market Guide for Network Automation and Orchestration Tools. Read the full report for market analyses and recommendations prescribed by Gartner for I&O leaders looking to adopt/expand network automation in their organization. The Need for ... Read More
Gartner Recognizes AppViewX as a Representative Vendor in its 2020 Market Guide
Gartner Recognizes AppViewX as a Representative Vendor in its 2020 Market Guide Recently, Gartner named AppViewX a Representative Vendor in the Pure-Play Network Orchestration category of its 2020 Market Guide for Network Automation and Orchestration Tools. Read the full report for market analyses and recommendations prescribed by Gartner for I&O ... Read More
