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Large parts of the internet were temporarily offline today, including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch, it has been reported. Other significant organizations whose websites were affected by the incident included media outlets the Financial Times, The Guardian and New York Times and the UK’s Gov.uk. When users attempted to enter these websites, they were met with messages like “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure.” Experts have traced the issue to a Fastly content delivery network…

(“File:ProofpointToronto.jpg” by Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Scalable Grid Engine is marked with CC0 1.0) Proofpoint on Tuesday announced its new cloud-native Information Protection and Cloud Security Platform that layers in multiple features, including data loss prevention, insider threat management, a cloud app security broker (CASB), zero trust network access, and remote browser isolation. The company’s new cloud platform was developed from its extensive experience managing and analyzing email traffic. Proofpoint claims that every day it analyzes more…

In this fifth and final episode of our 5-episode podcast, The C-level Strategic Guide for CIAM Investment, we will explore phase 4 on the CIAM Maturity Curve: Continuous.  Customer identity and access management, or CIAM, is fundamentally about “making sure the right people have access to the right things for the right amount of time,” says Keith Casey, API Problem Solver at Okta. For companies in this fourth and final phase of the Maturity Curve,…

The US authorities have scored a rare win in the fight against ransomware after claiming to have seized the majority of the funds paid to Russian ransomware hackers by Colonial Pipeline. The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Monday that it had been able to track and access 63.7 out of the 75 Bitcoins paid by the East Coast fuel transportation company to the DarkSide gang. That amounts to roughly $2.3 million of the $4.4 million…

Over the last year, companies around the world have adopted remote work policies, presenting organizations and IT teams with no shortage of challenges. Image: GettyImages/Laurence Dutton Over the last year, organizations around the globe adopted remote work policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. During this time, remote teams used a vast suite of tools a la video conferencing platforms and messaging services to enable virtual collaboration. On Tuesday, software company AvePoint released the results…