As Yahoo Breach Sinks In, Here’s How to Secure Your Data Centre in 2017

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It’s certainly not what Yahoo or its customers would have wanted. But news of the biggest data breach ever recorded serves as a timely reminder of the threats facing the modern data centre as we head into the new year. The internet pioneer may be an extreme example, having now allowed cyber thieves to steal data from 1.5 billion accounts. But organisations of all sizes should see it as a cautionary tale. They need to wake up to the threats facing their data centres or risk following in Yahoo’s footsteps.

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GuardiCore ❤ IPv6

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Earlier this month, Amazon announced a long awaited feature – IPv6 support for EC2 instances! Amazon is the first of the three big public cloud providers (together with Microsoft and Google) to offer direct, all-the-way-to-the-instance IPv6 connectivity.

IPv6 makes life easier for AWS deployments. Unlike IPv4 addresses, which are split to private and public ones with a NAT in between, each EC2 instance has only a single, internet routable IPv6 address. No NATs, no complex networking setups – One Address To Rule Them All. This greatly simplifies network deployments, while maintaining the ability to build more complex structures. Amazon also provides a simple way to turn IPv6 addresses to “private only” with an egress-only Internet gateway.

Needless to say, GuardiCore Reveal supports IPv6 out of the box.

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Corporate Boards Aren’t Prepared for Cyberattacks

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Despite the scale and potential harm from such attacks, there’s wide recognition that corporate leaders, especially boards of directors, aren’t taking the necessary actions to defend their companies against such attacks. It’s not just a problem of finding the right cyber-defense tools and services, but also one of management awareness and security acumen at the highest level, namely corporate boards.

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Advanced Data Centre Security the Key for Under Fire Transport Sector

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Cyber attacks against the transport sector are nothing new. Those of you with long memories will recall how the SoBig virus caused major disruption to the US rail network all the way back in 2003. But the sheer breadth and persistence of threats facing the industry today is largely unprecedented. Just recently San Francisco’s “Muni” transport agency was on the receiving end of a ransomware infection which  caused Muni to take its payment systems offline for two days, allowing Muni riders to travel for free, costing the transportation system a few days of lost revenue.

It’s yet another reminder that when it comes to transportation, attacks on the data centre must be detected and remediated as quickly as possible to minimise their impact.

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SC Magazine 2016 Innovators – Virtualization and Cloud-Based Security

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It’s that time of year again when we look back at who the Innovators were over the past 12 months. Here is a case where the industry and the creativity of the adversary are the predominating drivers. In our experience, that is a pretty good formula for success as long as you recognize and respond to it. GuardiCore does all of that.

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GuardiCore Named Industry Innovator in Data Center Security by SC Magazine in Annual SC Innovator Issue

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San Francisco, CA and Tel Aviv, Israel – GuardiCore, a leader in internal data center security and breach detection, today announced that SC Magazine, the cybersecurity source, named the GuardiCore Centra Security Platform a 2016 Industry Innovator in its annual Reboot Industry Innovators issue. Every December SC Magazine selects the past year’s leading Innovators, those companies that have shown sustained innovation and performance and have contributed materially to the growth of the information security industry. The GuardiCore Centra Security Platform was recognized as an Innovator in the data center security/virtualization, cloud-based security category.

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How to Keep Data Breach Costs from Climbing

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This is part 4 of a 4-part series examining data breaches, what they cost, why they are increasing in frequency, and what you can do about them.

In our November 11, 2016 post, we discussed what factors are causing an increase in breaches. Now, let’s look at some new security approaches to deal with them.

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