Babur Nawaz Khan is a Technical Marketing Engineer at A10 Networks. He primarily focuses on A10's Enterprise Security and DDoS Protection solutions. Prior to this, he was a member of A10's Corporate Systems Engineering team, focusing on Application Delivery Controllers. Babur holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Mayors of America, Beware! – Ransomware is coming to town
Ransomware attacks have been around for a long time. We saw a huge spike in ransomware attacks, and the resulting damages, from 2016 to 2017, including the devastating WannaCry attack of 2017 that cost organizations as much as $4 billion in damages. There was a slight lull in ransomware activities in the 2018 but in…
It is common knowledge that in August, 2018, TLS 1.3 was ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which has made it the new standard for connection security on the internet. The approved version of the RFC is an upgrade of the TLS 1.2 standard, which had been under discussion for over two years…
Enforcing GDPR - A New Era of Accountability and Fines
In September 2018, British Airways announced that a data breach had occurred on their website and app. It was initially estimated that the data related to around 380,000 card payments was compromised. However, recent estimates suggest that the breach affected around 500,000 users. The attack was carried out by hackers using a skimming attack, where…
Decrypting SSL Traffic: Best Practices for Security, Compliance, and Productivity
Today, encryption has become ubiquitous — Google reports that as of June 1, 2019, 94 percent of traffic across all its products and services is encrypted. Google is not the only company reporting a rise in the use of encryption though; all the commonly used browsers, including Safari and Mozilla, are witnessing the same trend.…
