Bot Management: A Business Opportunity for Service Providers

Bot Management: A Business Opportunity for Service Providers

Over half of all internet traffic is generated by bots — some legitimate, some malicious. These “bad” bots are often deployed with various capabilities to achieve their nefarious objectives, which can include account takeover, scraping data, denying available inventory and launching denial-of-service attacks with the intent of stealing data or ... Read More
How to Prevent Real-Time API Abuse

How to Prevent Real-Time API Abuse

The widespread adoption of mobile and IoT devices, and increased use of cloud systems are driving a major change in modern application architecture. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have emerged as the bridge to facilitate communication between different application architectures. However, with the widespread deployment of APIs, automated attacks on poorly ... Read More
Anatomy of a Cloud-Native Data Breach

Anatomy of a Cloud-Native Data Breach

Migrating computing resources to cloud environments opens up new attack surfaces previously unknown in the world of premise-based data centers. As a result, cloud-native data breaches frequently have different characteristics and follow a different progression than physical data breaches. Here is a real-life example of a cloud-native data breach, how ... Read More
Out of the Shadows, Into the Network

Out of the Shadows, Into the Network

Network security is a priority for every carrier worldwide. Investments in human resources and technology solutions to combat attacks are a significant part of carriers’ network operating budgets. The goal is to protect their networks by staying a few steps ahead of hackers. Currently, carriers may be confident that their ... Read More
Application SLA: Knowing Is Half the Battle

Application SLA: Knowing Is Half the Battle

Applications have come to define the digital experience. They empower organizations to create new customer-friendly services, unlock data and content and deliver it to users at the time and device they desire, and provide a competitive differentiator over the competition. Fueling these applications is the “digital core,” a vast plumbing ... Read More
What is a Zero-Day Attack?

What is a Zero-Day Attack?

Zero-day attacks are the latest, never-before-seen generation of attacks. They are not volumetric or detectable from a known application signature. Security systems and experts must react instantly to solve the new issues, that is, they have zero days to react. Advanced application-level attacks typically fit into this category. Two Distinct ... Read More
Security Pros and Perils of Serverless Architecture

Security Pros and Perils of Serverless Architecture

Serverless architectures are revolutionizing the way organizations procure and use enterprise technology. This cloud computing model can drive cost-efficiencies, increase agility and enable organizations to focus on the essential aspects of software development. While serverless architecture offers some security advantages, trusting that a cloud provider has security fully covered can ... Read More
Adapting Application Security to the New World of Bots

Adapting Application Security to the New World of Bots

In 2018, organizations reported a 10% increase in malware and bot attacks. Considering the pervasiveness (70%) of these types of attacks reported in 2017, this uptick is likely having a big impact on organizations globally. Compounding the issue is the fact that the majority of bots are actually leveraged for ... Read More
IoT Expands the Botnet Universe

IoT Expands the Botnet Universe

In 2018, we witnessed the dramatic growth of IoT devices and a corresponding increase in the number of botnets and cyberattacks. Because IoT devices are always-on, rarely monitored and generally use off-the-shelf default passwords, they are low-hanging fruit for hackers looking for easy ways to build an army of malicious ... Read More
Keeping Pace in the Race for Flexibility

Keeping Pace in the Race for Flexibility

Flexibility and elasticity. Both rank high on the corporate agenda in the age of digital transformation and IT is no exception. From the perspective of IT, virtualization and cloud computing have become the de facto standard for deployment models. They provide the infrastructure elasticity to make business more agile and ... Read More