March 2017

For one more year, NSS has a strong presence at the 7th Infocom Security congress, along with Sophos, Cyberark and Sealpath. The conference will be held at the Divani Caravel on 29 and 30 of March and it is entitled “On the IT Roadmap – Expect the Unexpected”. The dynamic presence of NSS, Sophos, Cyberark […]

LogPoint is proud to announce LogPoint 5.6!Since the last large upgrade back in April 2016 (5.5.0), we have had minor releases and in parallel worked on this release. New Features Policy Based Routing The feature allows your organization to: Reduce costs of storage: Filter messages before they are stored. Optimize workflows: Store logs in repositories

The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to be a boon to hackers and a bane to IT security professionals. IoT security is usually an oxymoron because the vast majority of IoT devices have poor security architecture. The manufacturers are often in a rush to get products to market, therefore security is an afterthought. And, once

When Sophos Phish Threat was released in January, we pointed out that: Email remains one of the most problematic sources of infection; and It’s the ordinary, well-meaning people who often let poisonous emails into their organizations. Phishing is an old problem, but news stories continue to show that people remain easy prey. New attacks, old

It’s no secret these days that cyber threats are rampant and varied. Ransomware, malware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are not frequently mentioned in the mainstream press, but they are everyday news in technology and finance trade publications. Cyberattacks are an everyday occurrence for some companies, a rare occurrence for others. Some companies

Doctors sometimes make mistakes that harm the patient. Police often fail to protect and serve. When that happens, people rightly demand the failures be analyzed and fixed. But no one ever calls for the elimination of all doctors and police. Why then, do some call for the end of antivirus and anti-malware when failures happen?

The protection capabilities of Intercept X are now available to Endpoint Protection deployments managing their endpoint policy in Sophos Enterprise Console. Stop malware, prevent exploit vulnerabilities and get a deep clean on any potentially hidden malware using the Endpoint Exploit Prevention add-on. Highlights Stops crypto-ransomware and automatically rolls any impacted files back Exploit Prevention mitigates

The field of cyber forensics is getting much more attention lately, mostly because of the keen debate over Russia’s hacking of U.S. political party networks. The public, media and politicians all demand “evidence” of the hacking. Fortunately, sophisticated cyber-security forensics tools are available to assist with this. We cannot pretend to know what evidence the

A recent TripWire study highlights the growing problem of cyberattacks, and whether IT staff feel that their companies have the right combination of skills and technology to cope with various types of cyber threats. Top concerns were (in order of importance) ransomware, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, malicious insiders, phishing and vulnerability exploits. According