Greetings and happy Star Wars Day, infosec enthusiasts! Whenever May 4th rolls around, we collectively celebrate our favorite Star Wars movies, characters and moments. But, what can we learn from this beloved space opera universe that might help us better secure ourselves and our businesses? To answer this question, we decided to put together a video series that examines famous … [Read more...]
Celebrate World Password Day By Brushing Up on Password Best Practices
Happy World Password Day! It's the perfect time of year to re-examine and recommit to password best practices. To help, we’ve created a short video to answer all your password questions. Learn the optimal length for a password, how it’s stored, how it’s protected, why you should care and more. Variety is the spice of password life. But with so many long, custom passwords, … [Read more...]
Don’t Miss WatchGuard at RSA 2018
The WatchGuard team couldn't be more excited for this year's RSA Conference, taking place in San Francisco, California from April 16 to April 20. In addition to a featured session on cryptocurrency hacks from our very own Threat Analyst, Marc Laliberte, attendees can look forward to a series of educational presentations hosted at the WatchGuard booth all week long! Wondering … [Read more...]
Cloud Utilization and Security
With total market capital up in the billions of dollars, it’s a no-brainer that companies want to participate in the exponential growth of cloud computing. Highlights for cloud computing include: Access is convenient - most people have Internet access nowadays, this is not to say that some don’t have access but the Internet is widely available via one mean or another … [Read more...]
2018 Security Predictions – A Major Cryptocurrency Will Fall
2017 was another scary year for cyber security. Malware is at an all-time high, global ransomware damages are predicted to exceed $5 billion, and data records are being stolen by hackers at a rate of more than 5 million a day. Just this year, we’ve seen spy tools leaked from U.S. intelligence agencies, political campaign hacking, state-sponsored ransomware, global IoT botnets, … [Read more...]