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DISTILS THE ESSENCE OF THOSE THAT ARE OF INTEREST TO THE NETWORKING COMMUNITY
As cybersecurity comes of age, so
do new practices and approaches,
all ultimately focused on doing
more, more effectively and with finite
resources. Simulating cyber risk and
guiding the most effective application of
resources to maximise risk reduction
impact, is one such example.
FireMon has released its patented Risk
Analyzer technology to help its customers
in just this way. The technology extends
FireMon's scalable automation and
analysis platform to risk vulnerability
management, calculating the risk of network
attack angles and scoring firewall
rules to allow network managers to efficiently
reduce exposure to risk.
Matt Dean, Vice President of Product
Management for FireMon says,
"Cyberattacks start inside the network via
spear phishing or other means. Many
network teams have undertaken segmentation
as a way to limit accessibility to
their data... However, that is only effective
if the implemented policies correctly
control access and determine which systems
are vulnerable and accessible
through the segmented network. This is
now a critical exercise."
Risk Analyzer allows for patching systems
virtually and it can re-run a complete
analysis in seconds. It can then compare
various patch scenarios and ensure that
the safest outcome is achieved.
Another important part of the evolving
cyber repertoire focuses on what to do
when a successful attack has been
uncovered, and this can no longer be
naively limited to recovery alone. In most
cyberattacks, legitimate owners of compromised
systems fall victim to unidentified
perpetrators and they will usually
agree to cooperate and help security
researchers find the infection vector
along with some other attacker details.
It has, it seems, been a concern among
forensic researchers that the need to travel
long distances to collect crucial evidence,
such as malware samples, can
result in expensive and delayed investigations.
The longer it takes for an attack to
be understood, the longer it is before
users are protected and the perpetrators
identified. Up until now, the alternatives
have either involved expensive tools and
the knowledge to operate them, or the
risk of contaminating or losing evidence
as it's moved between computers. In
response, Kaspersky Lab has developed a
tool that can remotely collect vital data
without risk of contamination or loss.
BitScout is like a Swiss-army knife for the
remote forensic investigation of live systems
and it has now been made freely
available for investigators to use.
A new distributed architecture means
that Arbor Cloud has increased its DDoS
attack mitigation capacity to 8Tbps.
Arbor Networks says that by distributing
capacity across four times the number of
scrubbing centres globally, attacks can be
mitigated more quickly and closer to the
source. This distributed model enables
customer traffic to stay in-region and in
some cases, in-country, addressing the
emerging data privacy challenges for
cloud service providers.
It's not just the face of cyber security
that is fast changing - the possibilities for
storing data are growing in some very
creative ways too. Described as a disruptor
in software-defined block storage,
Excelero has announced that its NVMesh
server SAN now supports persistent container
storage for hyperscale architectures,
utilising Kubernetes. They claim
that this is the industry's first offering to
make use of pooled, redundant NVMe
storage in container applications requiring
persistent volumes, so that enterprises
can obtain both local flash performance
and container mobility, all at data
centre scale.
Mark Peters, Practice Director and
Senior Analyst at ESG comments that,
"Container users need persistent storage
that is scalable enough for stateful applications,
yet also offers mobility to help
protect against drive or host failure. By
leveraging Kubernetes with its server SAN
platform, Excelero is enabling IT teams to
have exactly that: containers that can
have high performance storage, with
both persistence and mobility."
Enterprise-class storage-as-a-service
(STaaS) provider Zadara Storage has
expanded the availability of its VPSA
Storage Array service to both Amazon
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