A delay in finalizing enterprise deals and a shorter average contract duration have forced Fortinet to lower its sales forecast going forward. The Silicon Valley-based platform security vendor said average contract length shortened from 29.5 months to 28 months in the fiscal quarter ended June 30.
Adoption of 5G is growing, but are businesses equipped to handle risks from this network? Two experts - Alex Ooi of Digital Nasional Berhad in Malaysia, and Anand R. Prasad of DNB and Deloitte in Japan - shared the risk factors to take into account and ways the telecom industry can prepare itself.
The proposed $2.45 billion sale of Forcepoint's government security business to TPG will fuel investment and growth for both public sector and commercial customers, CEO Manny Rivelo said. Forcepoint determined that its government practice would benefit from an additional set of investments.
Security appliance manufacturers SonicWall and Fortinet fixed multiple critically rated vulnerabilities in their network security products this week. The fixes include authentication bypass flaws that could result in exposure of sensitive information. Regulators urge users to patch soon.
Service providers typically lack the skills and large security teams needed to thwart complex and high-volume cyberattacks on their own, said A10 Networks CEO Dhrupad Trivedi. MSPs telecom and cloud providers struggle to assess the scale of cyber incidents and to detect and remediate them.
A growing number of security teams are looking to consolidate tools to simplify operations, said Gartner analyst Dionisio Zumerle. "When you have the complexity, it's very hard to identify misconfigurations between the different overlapping tools, and it's also hard to identify security gaps."
A service selling DDoS disruptions via a Mirai-based botnet called Condi is the latest to target consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers made by TP-Link with firmware not yet patched to fix a known flaw. Unusually, a recently spotted sample of Condi has been stripped down to target only that flaw.
Small and midsize businesses need proactive measures to ensure security just as much as any large organization. But challenges abound for SMBs as they struggle with a smaller staff and budget constraints, making them more vulnerable to cyberattacks, said SonicWall President and CEO Bob VanKirk.
Check Point's product sales have taken their biggest nosedive since 2018 as customers extend sales cycles and postpone projects while prospects decline to buy new products. The company said businesses have increasingly delayed product refresh projects since November in an effort to tighten budgets.
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The increasing volume, frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks has made cyber resiliency a top priority for security leaders. But there are certain roadblocks to overcome before an organization can be cyber resilient, advise Samir Mishra and Navin Mehra of Cisco.
Remote access provider Splashtop has bought server and network access management vendor Foxpass to get better visibility across co-managed and multi-tenant environments. The acquisition of Foxpass will simplify the onboarding experience for developers while ensuring passwords aren't being shared.
Chinese threat actors are turning security appliances into penetration pathways, forcing firewall maker Fortinet to again attempt to fend off hackers with a patch. Mandiant researchers say suspected Beijing hackers it tracks as UNC3886 has been targeting chip-based firewall and virtualization boxes.
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