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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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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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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Black Friday Sales Rush Puts Spotlight on Data Centre Security

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E-retailers are coming up to the biggest shopping period in the year as the annual Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales events at the end of November slide into the December holiday season. In the UK, shoppers spent more than £3 billion over the weekend last year with many of those sales coming online. It’s clearly a fantastic revenue making opportunity for e-commerce providers. But it also represents a great window of opportunity that hackers could exploit to steal valuable customer personal and financial data. Cybercriminals love Black Friday as it allows them to go unnoticed in the increased volumes of transactions and internet traffic.

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What’s Behind the Continuous Increase in Breaches?

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This is part 3 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 September 6, 2016 post, we broke down the issue of dwell time, and its impact on the financial impact of a breach. In this blog we look at what’s behind the continuous increase in breaches.

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Developing Advanced Data Centre Security for Under Fire Healthcare Organisations

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British healthcare organisations, like their counterparts in the US and Europe, are currently facing a deluge of ransomware that threatens to overwhelm systems. Widely reported figures gleaned from an FoI request reveal nearly half (47%) of NHS Trusts in England have been infected over the past year. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Ransomware is one of many online threats facing healthcare IT bosses coming to terms with the fact patient data is increasingly highly sought after on the dark web.

The mission criticality of IT systems, rigorous compliance requirements and often stretched resources make securing these environments even more challenging. That’s why IT buyers need to consider a new approach designed to focus on east-west traffic inside the data centre.

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How Next Gen Security Can Help Finance Firms Stay on the Right Side of New Euro Laws

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Financial services firms have never faced a more agile and determined online foe. Barclays Global CISO Troels Oerting said recently that elite cybercrime gangs armed with advanced malware and a sophisticated skillset pose a major threat to the industry. They can get deeper inside networks, stay hidden for longer and steal more data than ever before. Additionally, as if that weren’t enough to worry about, coming European data protection laws will introduce a stringent new set of requirements and penalties on businesses, forcing improvements to cybersecurity.

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Cybersecurity as Business Enabler: Why Hyper-Growth FinTech Needs Next Gen Tools

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FinTech is booming. Last year it received a staggering $14.5 billion in venture funding – more than double the 2014 figure. And the UK is Europe’s unofficial capital. That’s good news all round. But that also puts this rapidly growing sector very clearly in the crosshairs of formidable assailants. As these firms race to offer a wider range of agile, cloud-based services to a whole new set of customers they begin to present an even greater target for the aforementioned assailants.

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Dwell Time: The Real Killer in Data Center Breaches

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This is part 2 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 August 23, 2016 post, we broke down the many costs of data breaches, both direct and indirect, that hit organizations in a variety of areas. Now, let’s look at one of the chief culprits driving up the cost of breaches: dwell time.

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