Availability issues are striking again and the business can’t operate--it looks like maybe this time a server is down? Determining the root cause can be a challenge, if not impossible, without the right traffic analysis. After all, instead of a server or application issue causing the outage, your worst nightmare could be happening--a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DDoS attacks aren’t what they used to be. While still viewed as powerful business disruptors, with thousands underway at any given time somewhere in the world, there has actually been a decline in frequency between 2017 and 2018. Great news, right? Unfortunately not. It turns out there is a new alarming trend: DDoS at
A rogue employee tore a 2.9 million-record-sized hole into his employer’s IT infrastructure according to an advisory posted by Canada’s Desjardins Group, the largest federation of credit unions in North America. The breach, carried out by the since-fired employee, involved the exfiltration of 2.7 million individual's records and 173,000 business’s records – about 41% of Desjardins clientele. The leaked information included names, birth dates, social insurance numbers, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses, as well as information on banking habits – all of which was illegally transferred to a third party. Desjardins reported that there was no breach, that it did not come under a cy
Virtualization--it’s actually not so new. Since the 1960s, the computing concept has been in use and has been defined as: “The art and science of making the function of an object or resource simulated or emulated in software identical to that of the corresponding physically realized object. In other words, we use an abstraction to make software look and behave like hardware, with corresponding benefits in flexibility, cost, scalability, reliability, and often overall capability and performance, and in a broad range of applications. Virtualization, then, makes “real” that which is not, applying the flexibility and convenience of software-based capabilities and services as a transparent substi