Category: security

VPNs or Virtual private networks are essential additions to organizational networks that allow companies of any size to easily and safely access their resources, whether they’re hosted locally or in the cloud. The primary purpose of an enterprise VPN is to fortify these sensitive assets and resources – which might include internal customer and sales systems, SaaS applications, and local file storage for employees who are now accessing them from many different devices and on unfamiliar (and potentially unsafe) Wi-Fi connections.

What is Unified Endpoint Management? 

Unified endpoint management is the method of centrally managing endpoint devices from a single location. These endpoints include mobile devices, desktops, laptops, tablets, wearables and other smart devices used for accessing networks or resources within an organization. 

With a UEM solution, organizations are able to unify the applications of data protection, device configuration, and usage policies. It provides a single view of users who use multiple devices and also helps in gathering workplace analytics regarding them. UEM also acts as the apex endpoint management solution in an organization by orchestrating related endpoint technologies such as identity services, client management tools, etc. 

Data loss prevention (DLP), as per Gartner, may be defined as technologies which perform both content inspection and contextual analysis of data sent via messaging applications such as email and instant messaging, in motion over the network, in use on a managed endpoint device, and at rest in on-premises file servers or in cloud applications and cloud storage. These solutions execute responses based on policy and rules defined to address the risk of inadvertent or accidental leaks or exposure of sensitive data outside authorized channels.

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Distributed denial- of- service attacks, or  DDoS attacks are a variant of denial-of-service attacks in which an attacker or a group of attackers employs multiple machines to simultaneously carry out a Denial of service(DoS) attack, thereby increasing its effectiveness and strength. The “army” carrying out the attacks are mostly often composed of innocent infected zombie computers such as an home router manipulated to be bots and being part of a botnet. These bots are cleverly controlled by the attacker via a Command and Control Server . It also insures the anonymity of the original attack since the distributed denial of service attack traffic originates from the bots’ IPs rather than the attacker’s. They may still be short, but may persist as powerful and sudden “punctuated” attacks that will last for several hours or several days. 

In computer terminology, a honeypot is a computer security mechanism set to detect, deflect, or, in some manner, counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems. A honeypot can be modelled after any digital asset, including software applications, servers or the network itself. It is intentionally and purposefully designed to look like a legitimate target, resembling the model in terms of structure, components and content. In computer terminology, a honeypot is a computer security mechanism set to detect, deflect, or, in some manner, counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems. A honeypot can be modelled after any digital asset, including software applications, servers or the network itself. It is intentionally and purposefully designed to look like a legitimate target, resembling the model in terms of structure, components and content.