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I was reading a research note by Gartner, ‘Maverick Research: Risk Management Produces Bad Cybersecurity’ ($), and it brought up some interesting observations about the usefulness of BackBox NVM when it comes to security best practices. The thing that jumped out at me is the difference in language between Risk Management and Threat Exposure Management. …
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Introduction: ransomware entry and propagation Network teams and the devices they manage are not the usual audience for discussions about ransomware. Ransomware affects endpoints and is often the purview of IT administrators and security teams. However, there are things that network teams can do to help prevent ransomware from entering the enterprise, and should it …
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 A Managed Service Provider (MSP) customer urgently needed to activate licenses across 92 Palo Alto firewalls. Compounding the challenge, this had to be done within two days, but …
From 10 hours to 30 minutes: The Hidden Value of Automating One-off Tasks Read More »
Network engineers remain under considerable pressure to secure their networks. Even more so now that the FTC (in the US) has expanded rules on security breach reporting. Now when breaches occur, it’s more than just an obscure security or network team that deals with the fallout, it’s the boardroom that gets involved. Suits in the …
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently released a healthcare-specific cybersecurity vulnerability mitigation guide. The guide focuses on addressing critical vulnerabilities and provides a proactive approach to combatting cyber threats. I thought it would be useful to examine the three mitigation strategies in this report as they related to BackBox in healthcare and …
Last month when Cisco acquired Splunk one of the quotes I read on LinkedIn that jumped out at me was that this acquisition makes sense because: As networks get more complex, it’s important to know what’s really going on. I couldn’t agree more with that sentiment. And to me that’s one of the most important …
BackBox is the first and only network automation platform to help network superheroes both track and remediate network and security device vulnerabilities (CVEs and more) in a way that especially designed for network teams. NVM gives administrators the tools to protect their networks by tying together device inventory with a threat and vulnerability intelligence feed. …
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