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The Department of Defense wants to ensure that any industry partners and suppliers it works with follow proper cyber hygiene practices to protect information and data. “In terms of protecting our data and protecting their information, there should be this standard,” Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said during his opening keynote of WEST 2018, a conference…

Adversaries are using sophisticated tactics to bypass security defenses and infiltrate networks. Along with employing HTTPS, they’ve begun using SSH and other advanced protocols for data exfiltration. SSH, for example, is often used for remote management access because it performs well. Adversaries now use remote desktop protocol (RDP) and data exfiltration over SSH. And when…

Cryptocurrency is hot. How hot? So hot that financier James Altucher predicted that cryptocurrencies will replace some or all paper money. “Cryptocurrencies will replace some or all paper currencies in the long run," he told CNBC. "Institutions aren't yet in bitcoin, but they will be ... we are in inning 0 of this asset class."…

There are a lot of misconceptions about breaking and inspecting SSL traffic. So much so that some companies elect to go without the ability altogether. In this video, A10 Senior Federal Lead SE James Schweitzer separates fact from fiction when it comes breaking and inspecting encrypted traffic and highlights the benefits of a dedicated SSL/TLS…

Lockheed Martin’s Cyber Kill Chain framework is part of an intelligence-driven defense model to identify and prevent cyber intrusions. The seven steps are designed to track advanced persistent threats and enhance visibility into an attack while understanding an attacker’s techniques and tactics. Steps three and four – delivery and exploitation – are where A10 Networks comes in.…

The cyberwar is unyielding. Day by day, minute by minute, new threats emerge. Military and government agencies need solutions to not only fortify their networks and combat sophisticated threats, but to also modernize their infrastructure to alleviate management and operational headaches. WEST 2018, co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute, runs Feb. 6…

Automate all the things! Sure, it’s a slogan from a meme, but each day it becomes closer to reality for IT pros. Using modern software solutions and frameworks, many tasks can now be automated, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual intervention from IT staff. Automation is hot right now, and at Cisco Live EMEA in…

Hybrid cloud. It’s a term that’s thrown around quite a bit. It’s defined as the ability for enterprises to have applications run in different infrastructures – public clouds and private clouds and on-premise with common orchestration and management tools. In our cloud predictions for 2018, A10’s Cloud Vice President Kamal Anand notes: “Multi-cloud, with different…

Crushing multi-vector DDoS attacks. Threats concealed in SSL encrypted traffic. Attackers are always trying to stay one step ahead of the defenders. They look for holes to exploit. They try to sneak in unnoticed. We must defend our applications and infrastructure against these malicious cyberattacks. At Cisco Live EMEA in Barcelona, your digital journey toward…

The modern digital journey can be fraught with peril. Disruptions, jitter, downtime – you name it ­– can all impede application performance. And let’s not forget today’s sophisticated security threats. From DDoS attacks to encrypted malware, there are myriad cyberthreats that can interrupt safe travel for data and applications as they traverse the network. You must…