Just as “flattening the curve” has become the battle cry for communities around the world seeking to combat the spread of COVID-19, the mantra applies to the threat climate for cybersecurity in 2021 as well. That is one of the conclusions to be drawn from the latest semiannual FortiGuard Labs “Global Threat Landscape report”. Released ...

If companies are prepared to believe that the impact of the massive SolarWinds breach is past us, cybersecurity analyst Brian Krebs has a different view. The breach, which leveraged malware surreptitiously planted by a nation state in SolarWinds security tools used by government agencies and the world’s largest corporations, has exfiltrated troves of data from ...

Like planes stacked on a runway during a busy holiday, the drone industry has been stuck in a holding pattern for several years as government authorities debated controls and companies labored to develop support networks. But now, two new sets of regulations issued by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration at the end of December, coupled ...

Predicting the future of compute is a little like forecasting an afternoon of high winds and rain on a calm, cloudless morning. It may not seem obvious, but change is coming. It always does. What change will look like for the computing world depends on how the strategies being put in place now by major ...

Open Policy Agent is now officially a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s graduating class of 2021. The open-source general purpose policy engine had experienced 91% adoption, according to an OPA user survey, and has been placed in production for major enterprises, such as Netflix Inc., Pinterest Inc., T-Mobile USA Inc. and The Goldman Sachs ...

With the explosion of network edges, ranging from wide and local area networks to cloud, data center and even the home, the attack surface for cybersecurity threats has expanded as well. To help address this growing challenge, Fortinet Inc. has just announced version 7.0 of its FortiOS flagship operating system. The latest release focuses on Fortinet’s ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has transformed daily life for much of the planet has also altered the role of technology in wide-ranging areas. Two of them that have seen particularly stark changes are data privacy and urban transportation. How those two fields will be reshaped is still a work in progress, but a clearer picture ...

Before March 2020, the videoconferencing industry was a mix of services and team collaboration tools that had respectable enterprise participation and modest consumer usage. But in what may well represent one of the fastest technology pivots of the modern era, videoconferencing has become an essential, daily communications tool, connecting global businesses, families, the legal system and ...

Events of the past year have created a situation where enterprises either become digital businesses or go out of business. This function, brought on by a global pandemic that brought much of the world online for work and service delivery, has placed more pressure on companies to manage data and the complexity of hybrid and ...

Business continuity planning is not keeping pace with enterprise migration to hybrid or multicloud. That’s according to a survey compiled last year by 451 Research, contacting 1,200 global IT decision makers. While the journey to hybrid and multicloud was clearly in process, organizations were grappling with a number of operational challenges. These included a notable ...