This week over 44,000 people traveled to Las Vegas to attend AWS re:Invent, Amazon’s largest conference of the year. I spoke to a crowd of close to 500 people on Monday about top cloud security threats, along with my co-presenter, Boyan Dimitrov, from Sixth who presented on compliance and security automation. A short overview follows. For more information, watch the video and … [Read more...]
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The Insider Threat: History and Defense
In cyber security, the “Insider Threat” refers to potential actions taken by people within an organization that can cause harm, as opposed to hackers attacking from the outside. Sometimes an insider takes actions maliciously with intent to steal data or cause damage. In other cases, the insider takes actions accidentally by clicking a link or sharing information because they … [Read more...]
How to Automate Deployment of a WatchGuard Firebox Cloud on AWS
The last Secplicity blog post in this series on cloud security described the security benefits of CloudFormation for automated deployments. CloudFormation can deploy security appliances in AWS accounts that help protect applications and data in cloud environments. UTM (or Next-Gen Firewall) on AWS Deploying a WatchGuard Firebox Cloud is one way to increase security in an … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Honored At This Year’s Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards
Info Security Products Guide recently held its 13th Annual Global Excellence Awards, and it was an exciting night for the WatchGuard team. Not only did we win the Grand Trophy for Best Company, but the Firebox T30 also won Gold in the “Best Security Products and Solutions for Medium Enterprises” category. But that’s not all, here’s the full list of WatchGuard employees and … [Read more...]
Ransomware Upped Its Game in 2016
From January to September of 2016, ransomware attacks targeting companies increased by three hundred percent since 2015. Attackers have become more intentional on crafting spear-phishing techniques and more strategic about the way in which they use social engineering to assault selected victims. A recent report from Kaspersky Lab reveals that ransomware attacks against … [Read more...]