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What has COVID-19 taught us in the context of information technology security?

Today, almost no discussion on any topic goes on for a long time without raising the topic of the pandemic in some way. this agenda dominates our entire lives in many ways today. of course, life will continue, but somewhat differently. companies have had to rethink their business models and adapt to the fact that in the near future fewer people will work in the office, many will continue their activities remotely. This situation has put pressure on IT departments, including new security issues. ...
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Is the risk of attacks on the OT infrastructure real? Opinion of a leading Fortinet specialist

Operational technologies, or OT, are a critical segment of the network used by businesses that produce goods or engage in physical processes. Industries such as manufacturing, chemical, oil and gas, mining, transport and logistics use specialized technologies to manage facilities: Assembly and production sites and power systems. The control, monitoring, and management of these systems have been gradually automated over the past few decades, and the specialized systems that perform these tasks ...
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EPYC hosting: exploring how AMD is changing the VDS hosting market

Today, hosters can place up to 1024 virtual machines on one machine, which allows them to dump, increasing their client base in a highly competitive environment. We'll explore why AMD's 64-core EPYC processors are at the heart of a new look at VDS. The data center market demonstrates double-digit growth y/y together with the incessant exponential growth of information on the Internet. Today, own “VDS-point in the cloud” has become as commonplace for modern active people as a credit card ...
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SD-WAN or MPLS: why SD-WAN is the best choice

... , and transactions, including access to cloud services or the Internet, required ... the network or in the cloud – while providing direct access to ... the cloud and Internet resources. Secure SD ... MPLS in almost any scenario Fortinet practice shows that the advantages ... best meet your needs. Unique Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution When ... seems the obvious winner. The Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution provides ... today, the capabilities of the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution combine ...
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What CPU uses Cloudflare: intel not inside!

The heaviest loads on the CloudFlare network are Firewall and serverless services, which makes CPU the most expensive item in The cloudflare server budget. The company's approach to server design is very different from traditional content delivery networks designed for large object video libraries, and the 10th generation of servers meets these requirements. We designed and built the Cloudflare network in such a way that we could quickly and inexpensively increase bandwidth; so that any of our ...
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How memory encryption in AMD EPYC 7000 works, or how it protects your cloud

How SME, TSME and SEV technologies work, what security threats they protect, what hypervisors they support, how bugs are closed, and what software developers and cloud providers think about it. We brought in experts, sorted out the issue and ran performance tests Let’s give a simple analogy: if your company’s data is money, then earlier the physical server on which they were stored was a protected safe: a closed piece of iron with a password, located behind three locks and under protection. ...
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Synology Active Backup for G Suite/Office 365: back up cloud data locally

If in 2017 we backed up ourselves to the cloud, then starting from 2018 we back up the cloud to ourselves to protect our calendars, mail and contacts from blocking any messengers, disconnecting accounts and others misfortunes. Synology has a great tool for backing up Google and Microsoft services, which we'll test. Since we use such business-friendly products as Office 365, Google Drive and Calendar, Gmail and Shared Folders in G-Suite, we need to make sure that this data is safe. The ...
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Evolution of cyber threats in OT environments

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the discovery of Stuxnet. The malicious computer worm made headlines because it was targeting supervisory control and data collection systems. Since then, there have been many similarly sophisticated cyber attacks on enterprise management systems around the world. This year marks 10 years since the discovery Stuxnet. A malicious computer worm hit the headlines because it was targeting supervisory control and data collection systems (SCADA). Stuxnet' ...
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How Secure SD-WAN Accelerates Branch Offices

... flexible and scalable connection to cloud applications and resources, direct ... flexible and scalable connection to cloud applications and resources, direct ... author: Alexey Andriyashin , CTO Fortinet in Russia According to Wikipedia ... protecting their core and cloud resources from access from ... access to online and cloud resources than their expensive ... MPLS to private cloud connections. They wanted to ... integration and accelerates access to cloud applications and other resources. ...
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Creating a "human firewall" to deal with insider threats

Employees can pose a significant risk to the security of corporate networks and the data they hold. The severity of this problem is confirmed by research – 68% of organizations feel moderately or extremely vulnerable to insider attacks. In the first half of 2020, the FortiGuard Labs team found that the evolution of the work environment and greater reliance on personal devices open up new opportunities for cybercriminals to penetrate corporate networks. One of the most popular methods for ...