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Centrify Zero Trust Security Network Partners Highlighted at BlackHat USA 2018 Booth 2410

This week, BlackHat USA commemorates its 21st year, taking over the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas to present trainings as well as recent developments and research about cybersecurity trends, best practices, and more. Centrify will once again be present to carry the flag for Next-Gen Access as an empowering force behind Zero Trust Security. You can find us...

IT threat evolution Q2 2018

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Operation Parliament In April, we reported the workings of Operation Parliament, a cyber-espionage campaign aimed at high-profile legislative, executive and judicial organizations around the world – with its main focus in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, especially Palestine. The attacks, which started early in 2017, target parliaments, senates, top state offices and officials,...

IT threat evolution Q2 2018. Statistics

Q2 figures According to KSN: Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 962,947,023 attacks launched from online resources located in 187 countries across the globe. 351,913,075 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. Attempted infections by malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were logged on the computers of 215,762 users. Ransomware attacks were registered on the computers of...

Let’s Encrypt Root Trusted By All Major Root Programs

As of the end of July 2018, the Let’s Encrypt root, ISRG Root X1, is directly trusted by Microsoft products. Our root is now trusted by all major root programs, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Oracle, and Blackberry. Today’s announcement that we’re trusted by all major root programs represents a major milestone for us, but it’s not the conclusion of...

MFA Everywhere: A Tried and True Method in Accelerating Security

While phishing attacks continue to jeopardize today’s organizations (a reported 76% of organizations experienced phishing attacks in 2017), it was refreshing to hear that tech giant Google has apparently eliminated phishing by giving security keys to all of its 85,000 employees. “We have had no reported or confirmed account takeovers since implementing security keys at Google,” a company spokesperson told...

How do file partner programs work?

It’s easy to notice if you’ve fallen victim to an advertising partner program: the system has new apps that you didn’t install, ad pages spontaneously open in the browser, ads appear on sites where they never used to, and so on. If you notice these symptoms on your computer, and in the list of installed utilities there is, for...

Centrify Booth 2410: Your Destination for All Things Zero Trust Security at BlackHat USA

BlackHat USA 2018 kicks off in Las Vegas next week, the 21st year that the information security event has brought together thousands of cybersecurity professionals. BlackHat is always a unique event in that it devotes a heavier portion of its agenda to technical trainings, skill-building, and research briefings for practical cybersecurity learning, followed by a shorter main conference we...

Onwards and Upwards: Our GDPR Journey and Looking Ahead

At Imperva, our world revolves around data security, data protection, and data privacy.  From our newest recruits to the most seasoned members of the executive team, we believe that customer privacy is key. For the better part of the last two years, Imperva has laid the foundation for our compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  At roughly...

Multi-Cloud Security Best Practice Guide

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