Security Devices

How an MSSP Turned an Upgrade Issue into a Customer Confidence Builder

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. […]

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Firewall Automation Considerations

Uncategorized / David Bressler

The Enterprisers Project, a site providing content for CIOs and IT leaders, included Josh Stephen’s, BackBox CTO, thoughts in an article published today. Titled ‘4 ways for CIOs to strike a balance between operation and innovation‘ it takes points of view from four industry leaders, including Josh. In many ways – time in the day,

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Fortinet Have Patched 40 Flaws, Now What?

Uncategorized / David Bressler

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.

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A BackBox Review

Uncategorized / David Bressler

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

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Why your competitors are utilizing API driven OS updates for Network/Security Devices (Example code included so you can too)

Uncategorized / David Bressler

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

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