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15 October 2024
How to Use BGP Flowspec as Your Network’s Smart DDoS Shield
Flowspec uses BGP as the carrier for DDoS mitigation policies and the upstream service provider's network to enforce them at the edge.
01 October 2024
What to Know When Devising Your Multiregion Backup Strategy
An introduction to backup architectures and configurations, maintaining data consistency, optimizing recovery time objectives and ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
29 August 2024
BGP Hijacking and How to Guard Against It
It’s not a new or particularly sophisticated attack method, but it remains quite effective and devastating for the victim.
05 July 2024
How to Use Immutable Backups to Protect Your Data
Learn why immutable backups are vital for robust data protection and DR by examining their mechanism and explore best practices for integrating them into your resilience strategy.
12 March 2024
Locking Down Your Cloud Network: The Basics
How to avoid exposing your enterprise network to the internet and other cloud network security best practices.
19 September 2023
Quick Wins to Harden Your Security Now
These steps can be taken to quickly tighten overall security posture and lay the groundwork for bigger security initiatives down the line.
16 August 2023
In a Hybrid-Cloud World, Network and Security are One
Explaining SASE and its power to enable today’s distributed, heterogeneous IT environments.
28 July 2023
An Update On the AMD Zen 2 CPU Vulnerability
While hardware vendors are working to release updated firmware and fix the bug, workarounds can be applied.
18 July 2023
What People Often Get Wrong About Security in the Cloud
Keeping your cloud environment secure takes a joint and ongoing effort between you and your cloud provider.
26 October 2021
‘There Will Never Be an End.’ Mandiant’s Nadean Tanner on Infosec
Infosec will always be a moving target, and the only consistent defense strategy is “hyper awareness.”
19 October 2021
You Know Who’s Best at Backups? Ransomware Survivors
Charlie Lane, a professional cybersecurity geek, in conversation with Grace Andrews about ransomware and enterprise security in general.
18 February 2021
Internet Routing and Our Shared Responsibility
How we’re doing our part to secure the internet from the bottom up with MANRS
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