RSS_Virtulization

Protecting the U.S. power grid from serious outages, like the one following a 2021 winter storm in Texas, will require a better use of data analytics, modeling and policy making says industry expert. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Rob Robinson, client partner in utilities practice for Capgemini, an IT consulting company, about predicting threats to the power grid following catastrophic outages in Texas after a winter storm. The following is an edited transcript of their…

DDoS, SQL injection, and man-in-the-middle are just a few of the attacks that can compromise your network. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about network attacks. Your network needs to be accessible. It’s how your business operates and how your company’s workflow stays efficient. Your network also needs to be closed off from the bad folks. Network attacks are on the rise. Sometimes intruders want to steal data, sometimes they just want to cause…

Network attacks: 5 things to know Length: 2:26 | Feb 23, 2021 DDoS, SQL injection and man-in-the-middle are just a few of the attacks that can compromise your network. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about network attacks. Source link

VMware Cloud on AWS is a fully managed service that provides resilient infrastructure for any workload.  VMware takes care of the underlying compute, storage, and networking so you can focus on the applications that run your business instead of operating and managing the lifecycle of your infrastructure.  Because your VMware Software-defined Data Center is delivered as a service, you pay just for the number of hosts that you provision.  The major factors that influence the price of the service are the type…

These eight online courses teach the fundamentals you need to pass various IT and cybersecurity certification exams from Cisco and CompTIA. Image: iStock/sdecoret IT certifications can be a smart investment when you’re searching for a job as a network admin or a cybersecurity professional or striving to get a promotion in your tech career. With the Ultimate Cybersecurity & IT Career Certification Pathway Training Bundle, you can learn a diverse set of skill sets that…

The former comptroller of a Louisiana community college has been sent to prison for wire fraud after abusing her network access to issue fraudulent refunds. Carol Bates admitted committing wire fraud from 2013 to 2016 while working at Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC). The 50-year-old Shreveport resident conspired with her sister Audrey Williams and nine other individuals to steal money from her employer. Bates and Williams recruited nine individuals including Faith Alexander and 36-year-old Marquise…

The number of cyber-threats identified and blocked by Trend Micro rose by 20% in 2020 to more than 62.6 billion. Averaging out at 119,000 cyber-threats per minute, the huge figure was included in the company’s annual roundup, “A Constant State of Flux: Trend Micro 2020 Annual Cybersecurity Report,” released earlier today. Email-borne threats such as phishing attacks accounted for 91% of the 62.6 billion threats blocked by Trend Micro last year. Nearly 14 million unique phishing URLs were detected…

American cybersecurity company SentinelOne was today named as the official cybersecurity partner of Aston Martin‘s Cognizant Formula One Team. SentinelOne operates from offices in Mountain View, California. The company was founded in 2013 by Almog Cohen and Tomer Weingarten, who still acts as the company’s CEO.  Today’s partnership announcement follows SentinelOne’s ongoing partnership with Aston Martin Lagonda. SentinelOne’s AI-powered Singularity XDR platform was selected by Aston Martin in 2018 to protect the team’s cloud workload, IoT devices, and endpoints.  “The…