NFV (Network Function Virtualisation) migration continues on our large scale, country-wide national network infrastructure.  This reduces previously proprietary network functions that ran on dedicated hardware into software building blocks that run on commodity hardware.

Security analytics and network visibility tools used by defenders collect as much useful data as possible to improve anomaly detection accuracy. This gives defenders proactive network security monitoring and alerting for attempted cyber-attacks or incidents that are in progress.

A new report found that last year there had been a 400% increase in SSL-based phishing threats, criminals are increasingly using encryption as part of their toolkit to evade detection and launch malware

The annual US version of the RSA Conference is only days away, bringing together the world largest gathering of cyber security vendors and information security professionals, this year’s event promises to be the biggest yet.

In terms of DDoS attacks, 2019 has started with a bang! At the end of January reports surfaced of a massive DDoS attack that generated over 500 million packets per second, which was significantly larger than last year’s GitHub attack, which peaked at 129.6 million packets per second.

The report explores and analyses the risks, costs and damage that would be caused by a coordinated global ransomware attack. The scenario outlined predicts that from the time the attack is launched it would encrypt all data on nearly 30 million devices worldwide. 

Security Analysts within the SecOps, DevOps, Security Operations Centre (SOC), Incident Response and Threat Intel teams are often overloaded with information produced by their cyber security tools. This issue is even more problematic in Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems’s (IDS) at carrier scale, leading to ‘Alert Fatigue’ and false positives. 

A network security team can only fight what they can see, an organisation’s network security depends on their ability to rapidly detect and respond to emerging threats across their infrastructure, whether that is Tier 1 Operator, Enterprise or Cloud Provider. However, attack methods and strategies are constantly evolving, making threat detection an always-moving target. A good base to start from is understanding what type of threats may lurking in your network, these threats look very different depending on throughput of network traffic.

A Content Delivery Network or CDN is a system of distributed servers and nodes that delivers web content to a user, based on the geographical location of the user, the origin of the webpage and the content delivery service. The purpose of the CDN is to avoid bottle necks that would occur if every user tried to access content from one central location, the CDN replicates and redirects content so it is available to many users all at once. Ultimately improving user experience across multiple geographical locations (i.e. not just to those users who are physically closest to the server with the original content) and easing pressure on network infrastructure resources.

Rohit Singh, Country Manager – AsiaPAC & India, Telesoft Technologies sat on a panel at the recent 5th Data Centre India 2018 International Conference to moderate a session and discuss all things cyber security and risk in the datacentre. Together with industry experts from Tata Projects, Juniper and Sterling & Wilson, Rohit and the panel discussed how datacentres are the backbone of today’s digital economy and are vulnerable to advanced persistent cyber-attacks, despite continued investment.