Articles In Technology Week in Review

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 5/4 FlashBlade 3.0: The Solution for Modern Unstructured Data (Pure Storage) FlashBlade uniquely solves for multi-dimensional performance, agility, and simplicity with the efficiencies of public cloud, but in your data center. https://bit.ly/2xu9vCi CursedChrome turns your browser into a hacker's proxy Once the attacker has connected to an infected host, they can then navigate the web using the infected browser, and by doing so, hijack logged-in sessions and online identities to access forbidden... read more.

• May 08, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/27 Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams (CyberArk) Attackers could have used a malicious GIF to scrape user’s data and ultimately take over an organization’s entire roster of Teams accounts. https://bit.ly/2VHzxeB Cisco and Google Cloud Partner to Bridge Applications and Networks: Announcing Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud This automated solution will ensure that applications and enterprise networks will be able to share service-level agreem... read more.

• May 01, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/20 Coronavirus update: as economic stimulus payments start to flow, cyber-attackers want to get their share too (Check Point) Users that visit these malicious domains instead of the official Government websites risk having their personal information stolen and exposed, or payment theft and fraud. https://bit.ly/3eBlhf6 Zero Trust, SASE-Digital Enablers or Adding Complexity to Cyber Ecosystems (McAfee) The reality is they [Zero Trust and SASE] are built upon a similar foundation of least privil... read more.

• April 24, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/13 Gotham COVID-19 Update https://bit.ly/2RxqP02 NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 Public Draft Available for Review and Comment NIST is separating the controls catalog from the control baselines-SP800-53 Controls catalog, which will be online, and SP800-53B “bravo” Controls Baselines. https://bit.ly/3c9lFzm Cloud Security for Rapidly Increasing Remote Work (Fortinet) Many corporate resources, especially at the core network, were not designed for this sudden load of connections and traff... read more.

• April 17, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/6 Wait One Damn Moment, Please Systems implementations are a delicate balancing act, requiring immense time and planning. So throwing in a new app during a routine deployment without doing your due diligence may make things much more difficult in the long run. https://bit.ly/3aOOS29 A practical approach for managing risk (Citrix) Considering the impact that a cyber-security event can have, companies need to have in place a proper risk management framework that aligns with changing business pri... read more.

• April 10, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/30 Cloud, COVID-19, and the Elusive Measure of Agility via F5 If you need help supporting remote work—not every app is SaaS or in a cloud, after all—we're here to help. We have technology and support options to help with availability, remote access, and security. You can also find free resources from our NGINX arm to help you out. https://bit.ly/2QX34OL TrickBot App Bypasses Non-SMS Banking 2FA Though it’s not the first of its kind, this Android malware app is more sophistica... read more.

• April 03, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/23 Gotham Technology Group is excited to announce that we have been named to CRN’s Tech Elite 250 list for the TENTH time. Gotham is proud to provide the best service for our customers and we appreciate the recognition from CRN. https://bit.ly/33Gv52n An Update from Gotham on our Coronavirus response https://bit.ly/3dnKJ77 Committing $225 million to global COVID-19 response (Cisco) As part of our commitment, we are allocating $8 million in cash and $210 million in product to the global... read more.

• March 27, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/16 Is Your Company Still Experiencing Digital Transformation Challenges? (Cisco) Digital transformation is essential for all businesses, from the smallest to the largest of enterprises. These businesses are striving to become more agile, innovate quickly, and respond to change faster – and they’re turning to modern applications to fuel that change. http://bit.ly/33dWzMm PCI DSS Contactless Payments In December 2019, the PCI SSC Council released documents on the PCI SSC Contactless... read more.

• March 20, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/9 Expanded Cloud Visibility in FireEye Helix With Netskope FireEye Helix will have visibility into thousands of alerts and events that Netskope generates every day. Customer data will be enriched with FireEye Threat Intelligence to help prioritize and evaluate all the threats happening across an enterprise. http://bit.ly/2TSXtJN Boldly Go Farther with Greater Efficiency for PAM (CyberArk) Version 11.3 of the CyberArk Privileged Access Security Solution introduces several new features to improv... read more.

• March 13, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/2 Warning Issued For Millions Of Microsoft Windows 10 Users Every Windows 10 computer is vulnerable to a serious (and widespread) system hack unless they change the default settings for viewing files. http://bit.ly/2PBEhiw Ransomware – Pure’s Unique Mitigation Solution Immutability Plus via FlashBlade SafeMode is the key. This offers the ability to prevent backups stored on FlashBlade from being compromised by attackers, thus acting as a force multiplier on FlashBlade’s exist... read more.

• March 06, 2020