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Protect Your Business with the FortiDDoS Protection Solution

In a landscape that sees an ever-evolving list of cyberattacks, DDoS attacks are among the most prominent. FortiDDoS Protection Solution defends enterprise data centers against DDoS attacks by leveraging an extensive collection of known DDoS methodologies, creating a multi-layered approach to mitigate attacks. It also analyzes the behavior of data to detect new attacks, allowing it to stop zero-day threats.

Advanced DNS Protection
FortiDDoS performs a full inspection of your DNS traffic at a rate as high as 12 million queries per second (QPS), protecting you from a wide range of DNS-based application, volumetric, and anomaly attacks.

Autonomous Mitigation
FortiDDoS provides you with autonomous mitigation, which means there is no need for a member of your IT team to intervene during an attack. All necessary mitigation happens automatically, regardless of the nature or size of the attack.

Central Manager (CM)
Organizations with multiple FortiDDoS devices deployed in distributed environments can take advantage of FortiDDoS-CM on selected models, enabling Administrators to gain visibility for all their devices in a single management screen.

Machine Learning Detection
Fortinet's DDoS protection uses machine learning architecture to study the behavior of data packets. FortiDDoS blocks anomalous activities, protecting your site or application

Powerful Parallel Inspection Architecture
FortiDDoS performs 100% packet inspection simultaneously at three layers: 3, 4, and 7, regardless of size, providing your organization with a comprehensive threat mitigation system.

What are the Types of Network Security?

There is a whole arsenal of network security tools and types available for the cybersecurity professional. Here’s a high-level overview:

Software
The software resource includes anti-virus, anti-malware, and anti-spyware. These tools are available as suites or as subscriptions, updated continuously to keep up with the latest threats. These applications monitor your network, blocking intruders, malware, and viruses.

Password Protection
Such a simple measure, but extremely important. Strong passwords are an inexpensive yet effective way of keeping systems, applications, and networks safe. Note that we said “strong” passwords, not ones like “password” or “99999”.
Firewalls
If you picture your network as an exclusive nightclub, then the firewall would be the bouncer, working the door and keeping out undesirables. They filter traffic (incoming and outgoing), based on predetermined policies, preventing unauthorized users from coming in.

Email Security Software
Email is a very vulnerable point in any network. To that end, email security software can not only filter out incoming threats, but it can also even prevent certain kinds of data from being transmitted out.

Segmented Networks
This process sorts and divides traffic based on specific established criteria. Segmented networks are especially useful for limiting users to just one area, the one they need to do their work while keeping them out of the data that’s outside of their wheelhouse. Restricting users like this helps decrease the overall network’s weak spots.

Network Security Jobs and Salaries

With the rise in cybercrime, there is an unsurprising corresponding increase in demand for network security professionals. Not only do opportunities abound, but the compensation is generous. Here’s a sample of popular cybersecurity careers and salaries, according to mondo :

Information Security Manager: $125,000 to $215,000

Cybersecurity Engineer: $120,000 to $200,000

Application Security Engineer: $120,000 to $180,000

Cybersecurity Analyst: $90,000 to $160,000

Pe*******on Tester: $80,000 to $130,000

Network Security Engineer: $125,000 to $185,000

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How to Create a Wi-Fi Heatmap for Network Analysis, Better Coverage, and Geek Cred Galore

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could see exactly where your Wi-Fi coverage was hot, cold, and somewhere in between? Stop guesstimating where you might need better Wi-Fi coverage and see exactly where with today’s Wi-Fi heatmap tutorial.

Why Do I Want to Do This?
You have a home or small office wireless network. You want to see exactly what the quality of coverage your Wi-Fi access point provides (and whether you should move it, add another access point, or otherwise tweak your network). Sure, you could do it the really tedious and difficult way–like say, making 101 readings off the Wi-Fi strength meter on your smartphone–but that information isn’t immediately and easily accessible in a way that allows for easy analysis.

In today’s tutorial, we’re creating a Wi-Fi heatmap of the first floor of our office. This map isn’t just a cryptic collection of signal strength readouts, but is instead a detailed signal strength map laid out like a heat map so we can easily and immediately see where Wi-Fi signal strength is weak.

Downloading and Installing HeatMapper

Are You Using The Most Secure Web Browser?

All of us like to think we use the safest web browser possible whether it's Chrome, Firefox, or any other of the many options. Each has their pros and cons, but is there one browser that can carry the unquestionable title of most secure? According to Skybox Security, the answer is: no.

What Makes A Browser Secure?
Even tackling this question is hard, as the security experts admitted, because how do you begin to measure security of a web browser? Skybox Security decided to take a few different metrics into account including fewest exposed vulnerabilities, most published (and patched) vulnerabilities, and the shortest time between security patches.

Based on the number of vulnerabilities published on each web browser since January 2013, Opera is the winner. Does this mean Opera's software developers are doing better jobs than the ones over in Microsoft or Google? Skybox Security doesn't think so; Opera's market share is around one percent so there's probably not a lot of interest in finding Opera vulnerabilities.

Own Up To The Vulnerabilities
The next category that Skybox assessed was the browser with the most published and fixed vulnerabilities. The assumption is that a vendor who publishes and fixes vulnerabilities would leave fewer attack vectors for hackers to exploit. Chrome and Internet Explorer come head-to-head for this one, but upon closer inspection you'll find out that vulnerabilities are still popping up in Internet Explorer 6 over 14 years after its release.
Finally, the cybersecurity company looked at the amount of time between security patches. This makes sense since browser vendors shouldn't take a long to fix vulnerabilities once they find out there's an issue. Chrome is the most responsive to security vulnerabilities and the obvious winner for this category. On average, Chrome releases a new version with security fixes every fifteen days while Internet Explorer and Firefox release security updates about once a month.

Minimize The Attack Surface
Time between regular security updates is also important and is the number one factor in determining the size of the attack surface. An attack surface is the total number of ways an organization can be attacked. This increases with new vulnerabilities, and if exposed vulnerabilities are left unpatched the likelihood of exploitation also grows.

Organizations can reduce their attack surface if they can block high-risk vulnerabilities and make sure security controls and policies are effective. An organization can determine its attack surface by identifying potential attack vectors. With this knowledge in hand, priority can be given to the right risks.

This ultimately means that organizations could execute faster and more targeted responses to security issues, keeping vulnerabilities in control. If the designers of all these browsers learned a thing or two about their attack surface, there might have been a clearer winner of the "most secure" title.

Is Your Network Being Sniffed?

Is your network data safe? Do you know if your network traffic is being tracked and recorded by malicious third parties? Most importantly, how would you know if your network is infected and what can you do to prevent it?

Network sniffing is one of the hardest to track and potentially dangerous forms of malicious attacks and cyber criminals use it to listen and record your network traffic – including your files. By unleashing their pack of digital bloodhounds into your system, hackers can cause untold breaches in your security and compromise your confidential data.

Our short video on network sniffing shows how this form of attack works and what is at risk when tracking technology is being used against you. Most importantly though, we show you a number of ways in which you can minimize your exposure to this type of attack, and shut down sniffers to keep your network secure.

If you want to learn how to protect yourself from networking sniffing, check out our video and let us know what you think about the topic.
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