Approaches to DDoS Protection

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks today are targeting businesses of all sizes and types. This article provides an expert overview of common methods of DDoS attacks and four main ways enterprises and providers of web applications can protect themselves and their customers from falling victim to this type of attack.

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Layer8 is a provider of information security and compliance management solutions to large and small businesses in Portugal and abroad. Layer8 analyzes, protects and validates organization’s data management infrastructure, from the network to the application layer to ensure the protection of information and compliance with industry standards and regulations. Gathered experience from financial institutions, large and small retailers, energy & utilities, telecommunications sector , business service firms, government agencies and many others. The company’s solutions include managed security services, audit & compliance management, and 24x7 support.

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Best Practices for Row Level Security with Entitlements Tables

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

Row Level Security (RLS) in Tableau refers to restricting the rows of data a certain user can see in a given workbook or data source at the time they view the data. It contrasts with permissions within Tableau Server (or Tableau Online), which are used to control access to content and feature functionality.

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Cloud-Native Ransomware – How attacks on availability leverage cloud services

whitePaper | December 13, 2022

Ransomware is a financially motivated crime with the goal of inhibiting business systems and obtaining a ransom payment. Historically, ransoming data residing in traditional on-premises enterprise workloads and government systems have resulted in ample financial gain for assailants using ransomware attacks.

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Adobe Acrobat with Document Cloud Services Security Overview

whitePaper | October 26, 2022

At Adobe®, we know the security of your digital experiences is important. Security practices are deeply ingrained into our internal software development and operations processes and tools and are rigorously followed by our cross-functional teams to prevent, detect, and respond to incidents in an expedient manner.

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identity and zero trust - H-ISAC

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

These days, you can’t have a conversation about cybersecurity without talking about zero trust. The security concept requires that all individuals and devices on a network be continuously authenticated, authorized, and monitored. Gone are the days of letting someone in the front door, giving them a role with access privileges and then having them go about their merry way.

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MEC security; Status of standards support and future evolutions

whitePaper | September 28, 2022

The present White Paper will focus on MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) technologies and intends to explore security-related use cases and requirements with the aim of identifying aspects of security where the nature of edge computing results in insufficient industry approaches to cloud security. Edge computing environments are by nature characterized by a complex multi-vendor, multi-supplier, multi-stakeholder ecosystem of equipment including both HW and SW devices. Given this overall level of system heterogeneity, the areas of security, trust, and privacy are key topics for the edge environments. Finally, the advent of edge cloud federations and the presence of (far) edge devices, e.g., in Internet-ofThings environments, requires tackling MEC security with an end-to-end (E2E) approach by leveraging existing standards relevant in the area, as carefully selected to be applicable in edge computing systems.

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Global Threat Landscape Report A Semiannual Report by FortiGuard Labs

whitePaper | August 16, 2022

Another half-year through unprecedented times has passed. But as unique as these times may feel, we continue to see familiar exploits, names, and attacks taking up space. To help you and your business feel confident in your ability to protect yourself against the threats that continue to come our way, this report looks back on the cyber threat landscape of the first half of 2022 using our global array of sensors monitored by FortiGuard Labs. Here’s what we learned:

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Layer8

Layer8 is a provider of information security and compliance management solutions to large and small businesses in Portugal and abroad. Layer8 analyzes, protects and validates organization’s data management infrastructure, from the network to the application layer to ensure the protection of information and compliance with industry standards and regulations. Gathered experience from financial institutions, large and small retailers, energy & utilities, telecommunications sector , business service firms, government agencies and many others. The company’s solutions include managed security services, audit & compliance management, and 24x7 support.

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