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As attacks grow in scope and sophistication, infrastructure providers, telcos, and security vendors band together to fight back.

Attacks are growing in size, and “everyone has a target on their back.”

One year ago, security researcher and blogger Brian Krebs was hit by a massive DDoS attack, so big that his host booted him off their network. While the attack against Krebs reportedly set records for its size, large denial of service attacks are becoming more and more frequent. And they cost money to defend against. …

Cloudflare Stops Charging More for Bigger DDoS Attacks Read More »

Attacks on enterprise infrastructure reach unprecedented scale and ransomware payload Think your data center is safe from ransomware attacks because the attackers only go after careless end users who click on malicious links or attachments? Guess again. One company that got hit recently is South Korean hosting firm Nayana, which was forced to pay about …

Ransomware Grows Up, Goes After Data Centers Read More »

Anti-malware defenses are struggling to keep up with constant floods of new, fast-evolving attacks but one thing that could help is if the infrastructure itself had security built in. That’s the idea with VMware’s new AppDefense product, which lets companies restrict the types of operations allowed to applications running on virtualized servers. This kind of …

VMware Builds Data Center Security into the Virtual Infrastructure Read More »

When a company stores critical data, whether in its own data center or in the cloud, encryption key management is vital to keeping that data secure, and letting the data center or cloud provider control the keys isn’t always an option. Cyberattacks on enterprises are on the rise, but most enterprise IT shops are still …

It’s Time to Replace Your Encryption-Key Spreadsheet Read More »

The idea is simple. First, you encrypt all your data and put the key somewhere safe. Then you send the data off to a data center somewhere. When you need the data, you bring it back and decrypt it with your key. The people who run the data center have no way of getting to …

Are Encrypted Lockboxes for Data Centers Worth the Usability Cost? Read More »

As we explained in an article earlier this week, the new European General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect next May, has  wide-reaching implications  for data center operators in and outside of Europe. We asked experts what steps they would recommend operators take to prepare. Read full article at Data Center Knowledge.

The new  European General Data Protection Regulation  goes into effect next May and applies to any company, anywhere in the world, that collects sensitive data about European customers or employees. GDPR also comes with onerous breach notification requirements and high penalties for failing to comply, and data center operators may become prime targets for regulators’ …

What Europe’s New Data Protection Law Means for Data Center Operators Read More »