Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Are you ready to build digital resiliency with your secure application delivery in a hybrid cloud environment? According to Gartner analysts, more than 85 percent of organizations will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and will not be able to fully execute on their digital strategies without the use of cloud-native architectures and technologies.

Containerization is the most popular approach for all modern cloud deployment. This technology makes it possible to encapsulate application workloads as OS-agnostic containers. The result is a new breed of cloud-native applications running across any infrastructure, scaling up or down based on demand. Consequently, there is a need to orchestrate these containers to deliver maximum efficiency in workload execution.

The Biden Administration has recently announced the implementation of a cybersecurity labeling program for smart devices. Overseen by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), this new program seeks to address the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices nationwide. This announcement is in response to an increasing number of smart devices that fall victim to hackers and malware (AP News).

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As the pioneer in web security, Akamai takes the lead with its Web Application Firewall. It excels at detecting threats within HTTP and SSL traffic at the Edge Platform, offering a proactive shield for your origin data centers. Akamai’s extensive experience in content delivery networks (CDN) makes it an industry favorite, especially in media, gaming, and streaming domains.

Researchers at Trustwave have published a report outlining trends in business email compromise (BEC) attacks, finding that these attacks spiked in February of 2023. “For the first quarter of the year, we saw a 25% increase in unique attacks compared to the last quarter of 2022,” the researchers write. “February accounted for the highest volume of BEC emails in the first half of the year. January is the second most active month for BEC.

You may have heard that 1Password beta testers can sign into websites using passkeys stored in their vaults. We’re actively developing the internal library powering passkey authentication, and now we’re open-sourcing it!

Cybersecurity is complex — anticipating cybersecurity events is another challenge altogether. We could argue that most events can be described by some probabilistic phenomenon, but attempting to define that phenomenon is where things get tricky. IT environment exposure presents real risks, but mathematically (or statistically), we can only aim to describe the likelihood of a cyberattack by accounting for a finite set of factors.

Security analytics is a proactive approach to cybersecurity that uses data collection, aggregation and analysis capabilities to perform vital security functions — including detecting, analyzing and mitigating cyberthreats. Security analytics tools such as threat detection and security monitoring are deployed to identify and investigate security incidents or potential threats such as external malware, targeted attacks and malicious insiders.

Today, we are thrilled to share that WatchGuard has again been honored as part of CRN’s MES Midmarket 100 list for 2023! CRN’s prestigious annual MES Midmarket 100 program recognizes forward-thinking vendors that serve midsize customers with products and services designed to address the midmarket's unique needs.