Industry Innovators 2017 – Virtualization and Cloud-Based Security

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GuardiCore is featured in SC Magazine Industry Innovators 2017 – Virtualization and Cloud-Based Security. Last year SC Magazine said GuardiCore “… was founded with the vision that security for the data center needs to not only be able to keep up with the rate of constant change, but also be able to close the gap between traditional security technology and a sophisticated threat actor’s ingenuity.” This year GuardiCore is taking this notion to the next level by moving to the next generation of cloud application technology: micro-segmentation. This technique provides better detection because it provides better visibility.

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GuardiCore Centra Provides Visibility, Protection Through Advanced Micro Segmentation

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CSO Online takes a look at the GuardiCore Centra Security Platform in this product review.  Says CSO Online: “The GuardiCore Centra solution offers one of the most efficient ways to begin implementing powerful security using micro segmentation. The fact that it is so easy to use, reasonably priced, and can be dropped into any physical or virtual environment is just icing on the cake for this impressive security toolset.”

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Ransomware Attacks Targeted Hundreds of MySQL Databases

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Hundreds of MySQL databases were hit in ransomware attacks, which were described as “an evolution of the MongoDB ransomware attacks” in January, there were tens of thousands of MongoDB installs erased and replaced with ransom demands. In the new attacks, targeted MySQL databases are erased and replaced with a ransom demand for 0.2 bitcoin, which is currently equal to about $234.

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Harvest Season: Why Cyberthieves Want Your Compute Power

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What’s the hottest commodity cyberthieves are going after these days? Credit card numbers? Medical records? Politicians’ emails? Those may be big, attractive targets. But more and more, attackers are going after unwitting organizations’ compute power. GuardiCore’s Director of Sales Engineering & Architecture, Dave Klein, discusses why in the article published by Dark Reading.

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GuardiCore Named “Best Buy” in SC Magazine Group Product Test for Cloud Security

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SC Magazine reviewed four products head-to-head in their recent Group Product Test for cloud-based security management. Only one product came out on top, with SC Magazine’s “Best Buy” and 5-star rating, and that was the GuardiCore Centra Security Platform. In the magazine’s words, “this is one of the best tools of its type that we’ve seen. It is comprehensive, reliable and easy to use. We make it our Best Buy.”

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Hybrid Cloud Creates New Risks

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The hybrid data center is rapidly becoming a way of life for large enterprises. Security has to keep up. It is no longer enough to “guard the border,” especially in a hybrid infrastructure in which the border keeps shifting. Security specialists need to step up their threat detection and response capabilities within the data center. In a hybrid world, that means finding security solutions designed to mitigate threats across multiple types of environments – physical or virtual, on-premise or cloud – and deliver centrally managed, consistent protection to data center assets no matter where they reside.

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Using Deception to Speed up Security Incident Response

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When a security incident is detected in the data center, time is of the essence. The longer it takes to respond to an incident, the greater the potential damage. Yet even with the best planning, incident response is often slowed by uncertainty, due largely to the high volume of security alerts analysts have to deal with.

Distributed deception technology for the data center has the potential to tilt the playing field in favor of the security team, not only by accelerating incident response times but also by improving the effectiveness of security measures to combat breaches.

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