Articles In Technology Week in Review

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/19 Hacking Operational Technology for Defense: Lessons Learned From OT Red Teaming Smart Meter Control Infrastructure (FireEye) Focusing collection, detection, and hunting efforts on assets or information that are likely to be compromised during these phases presents defenders with strategic opportunities to hunt for and detect targeted adversary activity before it poses a risk to control systems. https://bit.ly/3twseoP Microsoft Continues to be Most Imitated Brand for Phishing Attempts in Q1 2... read more.

• April 23, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/12 It’s Time to Take a New Path to SASE (Forcepoint) With people and data moving everywhere, security has to be agile to keep up. Now, the key issue facing many organizations is how to most effectively provide safe access to corporate resources on the web, in cloud apps and in internal, private apps anywhere, while keeping data safe everywhere. https://bit.ly/3sbi1wq IcedID Banking Trojan Surges: The New Emotet? IcedID (a.k.a. BokBot), bears similarities to Emotet in that it’s a mo... read more.

• April 16, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/5 Driving 2021 security initiatives with Citrix’s cloud-delivered security solution One of the most compelling reasons for current SD-WAN customers to adopt Citrix Secure Internet Access ties back to the unified approach across networking and security that greatly simplifies operations unlike any other solution on the market. https://bit.ly/2R970io Supply chain attacks: what we know about the SolarWinds ‘Sunburst’ exploit, and why it still matters (Check Point) What makes the... read more.

• April 09, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/29 A Tale of Two Ransomware Attacks: Which Company Are You? (Pure Storage) Ransomware attacks became a matter of not “if” but “when,” with experts predicting a ransomware attack every 11 seconds in 2021. Sophisticated cybercriminals continue to prey on vulnerabilities, and victims are giving in to demands and handing over cash to retrieve their encrypted data. https://bit.ly/39oEwYc FBI Internet Crime Report Shows that Email Fraud Represents the Largest Financial Losses... read more.

• April 02, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/22 Gotham has earned a spot on CRN’s 2021 Tech Elite 250 list, recognizing us as one of the top IT solution providers in North America. We are proud to continue to provide the best service for our customers. http://bit.ly/3c9xhVJ Attacker Economics and the Lure of Credential Stuffing (F5) F5 Labs and Shape Security research recently reported that credential spill incidents nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020. http://bit.ly/315H6Oe Okta and Proofpoint: Uniting People-centric Security and Id... read more.

• March 26, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/15 Fighting Credential Phishing by Isolating and Protecting Your At-Risk Users (Proofpoint) Protection must start with people, protecting them from advanced threat tactics and arming them with knowledge and tools to help protect the organization. http://bit.ly/3bP0Yvb Who Let the SolarWinds Out? The ingenuity of the bad actors was on full display as they successfully infiltrated, compromised, and manipulated the SolarWinds software update service. With that manipulation in place, the bad actor... read more.

• March 19, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/1 NSA Releases Guidance on Zero Trust Security Model CISA encourages administrators and organizations review NSA’s guidance on Embracing a Zero Trust Security Model to help secure sensitive data, systems, and services. http://bit.ly/3sxsOS0 Cloud Kickoff Guide: Starting your cloud journey on the right foot (Citrix) We saw an opportunity to condense the basic, foundational information all our Citrix Cloud customers need into a single resource — almost like a pre-planning guide &mdas... read more.

• March 05, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 2/22 Cisco Completes Acquisition of IMImobile PLC By combining IMImobile's solution with Webex Contact Center, Cisco will be able to provide a robust Customer Experience as a Service (CXaaS) offer. http://prn.to/3upfctR Citrix Endpoint Management named a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Citrix Endpoint Management receive an overall rating of 4.5/5.0 stars based on 101 reviews within the Peer Insights category for Unified Endpoint Management, again based on feedback from you, ou... read more.

• February 26, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 2/15 Press #1 to Play: A Look Into eCrime Menu-style Toolkits (Crowdstrike) The increasing availability of eCrime “syndication” models proliferating Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) programs grew in popularity as a threat vector and is one of the reasons behind the increasing volume of activity, allowing more novice threat actors to capitalize on the advanced skills of criminal malware developers and move from opportunistic breaches to targeted BGH ransomware campaigns. http://bit.ly/37g... read more.

• February 19, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 2/1 Prisma Access Is the Leading Cloud Service to Secure Remote Users (Palo Alto Networks) We are excited that Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks was the leading cloud-delivered security app by monthly active users, as well as by number of organizations. http://bit.ly/3tAQmH7 How a successful phishing attack can hurt your organization A successful phishing campaign can damage an organization in more ways than one. A report released Sunday by security provider Proofpoint looks at the impact of a... read more.

• February 12, 2021