Information Technology

There is no denying that the cybersecurity industry has a rapid and ever-changing pace of its own. On top of it, the outbreak of COVID-19 accelerated some very significant changes: numerous employees are now working remotely, companies are undertaking digital transformation initiatives, and many applications are being moved to the cloud. In this co...

2020 was a turning point for virtually every industry and human activity – cybersecurity was no exception. The migration to the cloud, the acceleration of digital transformation in many companies, the growing number of vulnerabilities, and the evolution of attacks have confronted Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) with significant chall...

The pace of cybersecurity evolution accelerated over the past decade. What was once perceived as a box-ticking exercise became a business enabler. The main driver for this paradigm shift is the massive increase in the number and severity of cyberattacks on organizations, including small and medium-sized businesses. Typically, point cybersecurit...

Ransomware has evolved into a top security concern for organizations, and the escalating number of attacks have validated the harmful impact this type of malware can cause across numerous sectors and industries. Cyber-attacks involving ransomware were originally viewed as a novelty that creative criminals came up with, but this type of malware atta...

At the end of 2020, FireEye discovered malware distributed through software updates to the Orion Platform, a popular IT management product. SolarWinds, the platform supplier, was breached earlier that year and failed to detect hackers in its environment for several months. Because of the widespread usage of the SolarWinds software, victims of this ...

The concept of Security by Isolation aims to reduce the impact of cyberattacks by physically separating a user's system, OS, browser, or email from their local machine or the enterprise server. As a result, even if the security of one of the systems is compromised, the impact does not percolate to the rest of the infrastructure. The principle o...

The Asia-Pacific web application firewall (WAF) solutions market experienced growth at a healthy 22.4% year-over-year rate in 2019 driven by high adoption from both the on-premises and cloud-based deployment segments. Particularly for cloud-based deployment, the rapid growth of this segment will lead it to achieve parity with the on-premises segmen...

The Asia-Pacific distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) solutions market experienced double-digit growth in both on-premises and cloud-based solutions segments in 2020. The market growth was largely driven by the relentless rise in DDoS attacks throughout the region. In addition to acts committed for financial gain, simmering geopolitical tensions ha...

The cybersecurity industry has long been operating in siloes. Organizations deploy dozens of security tools that do not communicate with each other and generate thousands of alerts daily. The market is long overdue for a solution that provides a comprehensive view of the organization's security posture. XDR is a vendor-agnostic solution that aggreg...