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In early March, Fortinet disclosed five new vulnerabilities. This sort of disclosure (from network companies in general) is not unusual. However, unusual or not, it presents a challenge to network administrators trying to keep their networks secure. Here’s the fundamental challenge, from some BackBox sponsored research from last year: 92% say more network updates are …
Fortinet Discloses 5 Critical and High Severity Bugs Read More »
A blog series that shines a spotlight on real-world moments where network engineers use BackBox security-centric automation to save their organizations from costly downtime and surprises. Synopsis During a planned maintenance window for firewall upgrades, a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) customer of BackBox encountered an issue that required considerable time to troubleshoot and resolve. …
How an MSSP Turned an Upgrade Issue into a Customer Confidence Builder Read More »
CVE-2018-13379 was the top vulnerability of 2022. It’s a Fortinet SSL VPN vulnerability that the company fixed four years ago, in May 2019. So, when someone tells me that they have OS updates or vulnerability patching under control, I’m understandably skeptical. Can you imagine not updating a device more frequently than every 3 or 4 …
Network Vulnerability Manager (NVM) is built specifically for network administrators and designed to help them prioritize OS updates based on actual, measured, risk to the organization. Updating devices sounds easy. Just update the software, right? Every vendor tool has that capability. It should be easy. It’s not. Partially because the quality of update tooling varies …
When it comes to network security, we often think about vulnerabilities or exploits. About internal threats, and password compromises. We don’t often think about automation. Anything that can have a negative impact on network resiliency and its return to full operation after an ‘event’ relates to security. Automation helps keep your network humming along at …
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The other day, Fortinet announced patches for 40 flaws, including two rated critical and 15 rated high severity. Top of the list is a severe bug residing in the FortiNAC network access control solution (CVE-2022-39952, CVSS score: 9.8) that could lead to arbitrary code execution. In most posts I write, I do very little selling. …
Network automation is one of those funny things… it can be anything, and so often is nothing (out-of-the box). People want to solve problems. At BackBox we take the approach of building the best possible network automation platform while also delivering easy-to-deploy solutions to very specific problems like ensuring reliable backups or OS updates. Once …
We’ve become numb to the costs of cybersecurity breaches. Almost every week there is a new breach reported in the news, it’s beginning to feel impossible to stop them. Something important is changing that you must plan for… Insurance companies that help pick up the pieces are forming an opinion about how businesses should be …
Don’t let your Cybersecurity make you uninsurable Read More »
The US Cyber Information Security Agency in ST18-001 warns that Network infrastructure devices are often easy targets for attackers. Among the steps they point to for keeping infrastructure secure, they suggest that network infrastructure device’s OS be kept up to date because patches often contain security vulnerability fixes. In contrast to this, many teams we …
There’s always a layer of details that make all the difference between easy and simple. BackBox improves network security by streamlining network software upgrades for patching security vulnerabilities to be both easy and simple. First let me explain the difference between easy and simple using an example everyone in the US can understand. Just File …