Tag: security

Security startup Illumio raises $100m, extends Adaptive Security Platform

Security startup Illumio’s profile has steadily increased since it emerged from stealth mode in October last year with a seasoned executive team, $42.5 million of venture capital funding and an innovative Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) under its belt.

The company’s CEO and co-founder Andrew Rubin recently caught up with ZDNet while visiting London to bang the ASP drum and announce some new developments ahead of the RSA Conference in San Francisco next week.

Why is Illumio attracting attention and investment (one of today’s announcements is a cool $100m in series C funding)? According to the company, traditional perimeter- and network-centric security products are no longer sufficient in a world where applications and workloads increasingly need to work dynamically across on-premise data centres and public cloud services. Firewalls, intrusion protection systems and advanced threat protection appliances are widely deployed to secure interactions at the perimeter – but, says Illumio, these tools offer little protection within enterprise data centres and in the public cloud, where much of today’s traffic flow and data resides. Continue reading “Security startup Illumio raises $100m, extends Adaptive Security Platform”

End user data backup policy

Data without an associated backup is only as reliable as the system upon which it is stored – and every system has a finite life span or may be susceptible to malware or hacking efforts. Ransomware applications, which infect systems then encrypt data and demand anonymous payment in Bitcoin, are now a way of life, forcing users to choose between losing data or succumbing to extortion.

When end users utilize systems – whether workstations, laptop or mobile devices – to access, work on and store company data, the loss or failure of those devices can put data at risk. Productivity, operations and company reputation can be placed in jeopardy as well. In order to protect itself, its employees and its business activities, every organization should make regular backups of all end user data stored on its systems, whether company-provided or employee-owned.

IPsec VPNs for secure remote access

IPsec VPNs is also the foremost common technique for providing secure remote access from company-managed laptops, however they’re impractical on home PCs and not possible on public PCs. to handle the remote access desires of teleworkers, day extenders, and mobile employees a lot of effectively, several corporations are currently adopting SSL VPNs.

SSL VPNs are easier to deploy than IPsec as a result of they use the net browser already gift on most desktops and dynamic Java/ActiveX purchasers rather than put in VPN consumer programs. They use protocols that pass a lot of simply through perimeter firewalls and network address translation. They let the VPN server dictate tunnel security parameters rather than requiring client-side configuration. they provide safer support for common remote user authentication strategies like passwords and tokens. and that they will typically apply a lot of granular access rules — as an example, letting individual users reach selected applications or application objects (URLs, files, etc) rather than connecting remote hosts to entire networks. Continue reading “IPsec VPNs for secure remote access”