Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become an ongoing threat for organisations. Using a variety of techniques, a wide range of threat actors from lone hackers, criminal gangs and hacktivists to nation-states are using DDoS attacks to disrupt or disable the performance of target systems.

A10 Networks has just announced the launch of Harmony Controller as-a-service, Release 5.4 with enhancements that ease multi-cloud operational complexity and strengthen security. Every network administrator for a business or a service provider has experienced the pain of growth and change.

Of all the security issues that have appeared over the last few years, none has had the impact of the Log4j exploit. Also called the Log4Shell, it was reported to the developers, the Apache Software Foundation, on 24 November, 2021, by the Chinese tech giant Alibaba and it took two weeks to develop and release a fix. The existence of the Log4j exploit was first publicly published in a tweet by Chen Zhaojun, a cyber security researcher with the Alibaba Cloud Security team on December 9, 2021

When ISPs start expanding their network to reach unserved subscribers, homes, or businesses, they may quickly run into a roadblock they hadn’t budgeted for: a lack of IPv4 addresses. IPv4 exhaustion has been a topic of discussion in the industry for over two decades.

Nearly all (92%) of the 250 enterprise organizations surveyed in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia and the UAE) expressed high levels of concern about all aspects of enterprise digital resilience.