A10 Networks Blog
March 28, 2025
Are your AI Inference and GenAI Environments Secure? These Five Essentials Will Help
AI systems are quickly becoming critical elements of business technology. Imagine building an AI agent…
February 13, 2025
The Dangers of Rushing into AI Adoption: Lessons from DeepSeek
As organizations race to adopt the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, DeepSeek serves as a…
February 5, 2025
Survey: Enterprises Seek New Load Balancing Vendors as Issues Mount
A cloud transformation is no time to discover shortcomings in your load balancing solution—or the…
February 4, 2025
Elevating Cyber Resilience with AI-powered Security
New A10 Networks Security Services In today’s digital age, as organizations modernize their applications and…
January 30, 2025
Building AI and LLM Inference in Your Environment? Be Aware of These Five Challenges
Building AI and LLM inference and integrating it in your environment are major initiatives, and…
November 14, 2024
Accelerating IPv6 Adoption – Transitioning from Cost Benefit to Security Benefit
The Introduction of IPv6 It is hard to believe that World IPv6 Launch Day was…
March 13, 2024
Insight Into the DDoS Attacks on the French Government
The attacks are ongoing as of this writing. Here are a few screenshots of data…
May 16, 2023
Communication Service Providers Expect Strong Demand
A10 Research Shows that Industry Optimism is a Driving Force for Investments, Reforms and Growth…
June 1, 2022
Top Cyber War Techniques and Technologies
In our article Cyber Warfare: Nation State Sponsored Cyber Attacks, we discussed the nature of…
May 17, 2022
Cyber Warfare: Nation State Sponsored Cyber Attacks
What is Cyber Warfare? The internet has changed how we view and interact with the…
January 21, 2022
Five Most Famous DDoS Attacks and Then Some
Updated: May 30, 2024 Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are now everyday occurrences. Whether…
October 29, 2018
Six Steps to Defend Against DDoS Attacks
In the first half of this article, Understanding DDoS Attacks, we talked about the nuts…
September 25, 2018
Understanding DDoS Attacks
It’s clear the DDoS attacks aren’t going anywhere — in Q2 2017, the number of…
August 14, 2018
IoT and DDoS: Cyberattacks on the Rise
The Internet of Things (IoT) may be a relatively new type of network, but it's…
July 16, 2018
How to Defend Against Amplified Reflection DDoS Attacks
What are Amplified Reflection DDoS Attacks? Amplified reflection attacks are a type of DDoS attack…
June 9, 2018
DDoS Attacks on IPv6
IPv6. We've heard it's been coming for years but no, it's not here yet. However…
March 6, 2018
For Enterprise DDoS Defense, Cloud Alone Just Doesn't Cut It
Enterprises face a dilemma when it comes to defense against today’s modern DDoS attacks: trust…
February 1, 2018
Three Misconceptions of Breaking and Inspecting SSL Traffic
There are a lot of misconceptions about breaking and inspecting SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) traffic.…
January 17, 2018
DDoS Protection Demands a Hybrid Approach
Picture this: a DDoS attack is crushing your network. Your enterprise’s internet pipe is under…
October 23, 2017
Three Keys to DDoS Protection: Monitor, Protect, Communicate
In late 2016, the DDoS landscape changed. The Mirai botnet was responsible for the first…
September 21, 2017
Combating the Siege of Multi-Vector DDoS Attacks
For the past year, you’ve surely heard about multi-vector distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks…
September 19, 2017
The Importance of SSL Decryption
A majority of traffic traversing the internet is encrypted. Some put the estimate at nearly…
August 29, 2017
Protecting Against WireX Botnet DDoS Attacks
It appears Mirai botnet may have some competition. And its name is WireX. Google recently…
August 28, 2017
Active DNS Protection From DDoS Attacks
Today, I’d like to focus on A10's high-scale DDoS protection for DNS services, which uses…
August 7, 2017
Analytics, Good Identity Hygiene Are Key to Cloud Security
As cloud computing has matured, the benefits it delivers to organizations of all sizes are…
July 31, 2017
Why Packets Per Second (PPS) Matter in DDoS Defense
Packets per second (PPS) is one of the most important measurements to consider when planning…
July 24, 2017
DDoS Defense Deployments: Proactive Mode vs. Reactive Mode
Choosing whether you deploy DDoS defense in reactive mode or proactive mode depends on your…
June 28, 2017
7 Common Misunderstandings About SSL Encryption/TLS Encryption
The amount of Internet traffic secured via SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)/TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption…
June 27, 2017
Fast-Moving GoldenEye Ransomware Highlights Importance of Eliminating Network Blind Spots
A wave of ransomware swept across Europe at an incredibly rapid clip Tuesday, grinding business…
June 5, 2017
Could Fireball Malware Become the Next Mirai?
This month, researchers uncovered a malware strain believed to have infected more than 250 million…
May 15, 2017
WannaCry' Ransomware Uses Encryption to Hold Files Hostage
More than 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries were crippled by a massive ransomware…
May 2, 2017
How to Identify and Block an Application Attacker
Attacks against applications have become increasingly common. In this post, we explain how you can…
April 26, 2017
Clearing the SSL Inspection Confusion
At A10 Networks, we take your security very seriously. Because of that, it’s our duty…
April 19, 2017
5 Simple Tactics to Combat DDoS Attacks
Threat actors have weaponized the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. They’re using unsecured…
February 9, 2017
HTTPS Interception and the Truth About Thunder SSLi Cipher Support
The A10 Networks Security Engineering Research Team recently reviewed the paper titled, “The Security Impact…
February 9, 2017
W-2 Phishing Scams Targeting More than Enterprises, Warns IRS
It happens daily. An employee receives an urgent email from a superior or executive requesting…
December 21, 2016
IoT DDoS Attacks-Best Practices for Protection and Prevention
Internet of Things (IoT) security has dominated the headlines the past few months. From the…
November 8, 2016
Inside the Mirai Malware That Powers IoT Botnets
In early October 2016, the source code for a specific Internet of Things (IoT) malware…
October 21, 2016
DDoS Attack on Dyn Reveals New Threat Actor Strategies
In the early hours of Oct. 21, many top consumer application services — including Spotify,…
September 28, 2016
IoT Devices Common Thread in Colossal DDoS Attacks
A pair of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against high-profile targets last week rank among the…
August 31, 2016
Shadow Brokers: How the NSA Leak Affects Your Business
You’ve been desensitized. Not to unfortunate and unnecessary violence this time, but to security breaches,…
August 25, 2016
Encryption Keeps Strider Malware Hidden for 5 Years
Security researchers have discovered a nasty piece of spyware that’s being called “super-sophisticated” due to…
July 21, 2016
SSL Inspection with Cisco ASA with FirePOWER
Five Reasons to Off-Load SSL Decryption Skilled threat actors are now hiding cyber attacks in…
June 29, 2016
Bart Ransomware: How SSL Inspection Stops the New Attack
A new ransomware strain is showcasing the adaptability of threat actors. Nicknamed Bart, this new…
June 16, 2016
Context-Aware DDoS Protection with aXAPI
In a complex infrastructure the system state is rather fluid. Addresses, hostnames, routing, availability and…
May 4, 2016
WordPress Pingback Attack
WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that allows an author to directly edit their…
September 30, 2015
What Lies Beneath: Advanced Attacks that Hide in SSL Traffic
From Target to Sony, and Anthem to TalkTalk, no company is immune to the risk…
August 25, 2015
SSL Security Epic Fail: When Your SSL Decryption Solution Prevents Better Security
SSL is everywhere. Today, many of the most popular websites leverage encryption to keep data…