Tag: NEC

XRoads Networks Introduces WEBaXcel™ With Advanced Web Filtering and Link Bonding Technologies

IRVINE, CA–(Marketwired – May 8, 2013) – XRoads Networks, a leading provider of unified bandwidth management platforms, today announced a unique innovation to its EdgeXOS product line. The WEBaXcel network appliance is the only solution on the market that incorporates XRoads Networks’ unique broadband bonding technology with an enterprise class, cloud-enabled web filtering solution from Webroot, a leader in cloud-based security intelligence solutions. The WEBaXcel’s bandwidth bonding capability actually combines the speed of multiple ISP connections in order to accelerate web download speeds and improve overall network performance and reliability

$45 million ATM heist turns focus again on insider threats, controlling privileged access!

New wave of cyber-attacks on banks lend credence to the belief that insider threat is getting complex and cyber-criminals are increasingly targeting to siphon-off the login credentials of employees and administrative passwords of IT resources. It is termed as the ‘massive 21 st century bank heist’.  A worldwide gang of cyber-criminals in multiple cities drained ATMs to the tune of $45 million in a matter of few hours last week

Cyberattack Tracker Zeroes in on Firewall Vulnerabilities

Deutsche Telekom’s interactive, real-time map of global cyberattacks reveals the bulk of recent attacks – 27.3 million in February alone – were against the Server Message Block (SMB), aka the Common Internet File System (CIFS). Reuven Harrison, CTO and co-founder of Tufin, a security and lifecycle management company and Fortinet solution partner, wrote in a blog that the map’s revelations are significant.

Why You Need to Integrate IT Operations and IT Service Management

In a previous article, I wrote about the need for application-aware network performance management (AA-NPM) tools. With tools that can manage the entire range of infrastructure and applications, we can manage the delivery of services more effectively and responsively — which is better for an organization, better for IT, better for everyone