Cyber Security News & Trends

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Each week, SonicWall collects the cyber security industry’s most compelling, trending and important interviews, media and news stories — just for you.

SonicWall Spotlight

Cybersecurity and the future of work: How much can we predict? – Silicon Republic (Ireland)

  • SonicWall CEO Bill Conner, talking to Silicon Republic, shares his thoughts on battling the growth areas of cybercrime over the coming years.

US Indicts North Korean Over Sony, Bank and WannaCry Attacks – Infosecurity magazine

  • The U.S. Justice Department has formally charged a hacker in connection with cybercrimes that they are directly connecting to the North Korean government. SonicWall’s Bill Conner is featured as a security expert on the issue.

Cyber Security News

British Airways boss apologises for ‘malicious’ data breach – BBC

  • A week after the Air Canada security leak another major security breach in an Airline, this time British Airways, has been dominating news headlines. Names, email address and credit card information from over 380,000 transactions have been compromised.

Nope, the NSA isn’t sitting in front of a supercomputer hooked up to a terrorist’s hard drive – The Register

  • The Register talks about what exactly Government intelligence services want versus what it’s likely they will be able to get in the current digital climate.

The Case for a National Cybersecurity Agency – Politico

  • Gen. David Petraeus argues in Politico that national cybersecurity is in need of a complete overhaul with the creation of an independent National Cybersecurity Agency that reports directly to the President.

FIN6 returns to attack retailer point of sale systems in US, Europe – ZDNet

  • Point of Sale (POS) malware is really gathering steam. ZDNet have a report on a new campaign by a cybercriminal group called FIN6 who were previously known for selling credit card numbers on the Dark Web.

More U.S. Cities Brace for ‘Inevitable’ Hackers – The Wall Street Journal

  • After the city of Atlanta paid millions of dollars to ransomware attackers this year other U.S. Cities are considering their options on how to handle cyberattacks.

Obama-Themed Ransomware Also Mines for Monero – BankInfoSecurity

  • They’re calling it Barack Obama’s Everlasting Blue Blackmail Virus and it doubles as a cryptocurrency miner on top of being ransomware.

In Case You Missed It

Infographic: Ransomware’s Devastating Impact on Real-World Businesses

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Still relatively new to the cyber threat landscape, ransomware continues to be one of the high-profile malware types that grab headlines. It’s one part Hollywood-style drama mixed with the “mystery” of cryptocurrencies and the seemingly personal nature of ransomware attacks.

But it’s not hyperbole. Ransomware remains one of the most malicious cyberattacks that can cripple a business. SonicWall’s new infographic highlights composite data that demonstrates how ransomware impacts businesses’ ability to operate.

So, how do you prevent your organization from being severely disrupted by ransomware? The best approach is to use multiple layers that deliver automated, real-time breach detection and prevention. While this isn’t an exhaustive list of all security options, these cornerstone tactics will mitigate most of today’s most malicious cyberattacks, including ransomware.

How to Block Ransomware

Businesses have no choice but to proactively mitigate ransomware attacks. But is there a proven approach that can cost-effectively scale across networks and endpoints? Four key security capabilities make full ransomware protection possible.

  1. Next-Generation Firewall

    Detect and prevent cyberattacks with power, speed and precision.
    Next-generation firewalls (NGFW) are one of your first lines of defense against hackers, cybercriminals and threat actors.

    For example, SonicWall firewalls deliver real-time, cloud-based threat prevention, while augmenting the security from on-box deep packet inspection of SSL traffic (DPI-SSL). And all new SonicWall firewalls integrate with our award-winning network sandbox for advanced threat protection.

  2. Network Sandbox

    Identify and stop unknown attacks in real time.
    A network sandbox is an isolated environment on the firewallthat runs files to monitor their behavior. SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a multi-engine sandbox service that holds suspicious files at the gateway until a verdict can be achieved.

    Capture ATP also features Real-Time Deep Memory InspectionTM (RTDMI). RTDMI is a memory-based malware analysis engine that catches more malware, and faster, than behavior-based sandboxing methods. It also delivers a lower false-positive rate to improve security and the end-user experience.

  3. Email Security

    Filter email-borne attacks before they hit your network.
    Secure email solutions deliver comprehensive inbound and outbound protection from advanced cyberattacks, including ransomware, phishing, business email compromise (BEC), spoofing, spam and viruses. Proven solutions will be available in on-premise email security appliances and hosted secure email.

    SonicWall Email Security also integrates with Capture ATP to protect email from advanced threats, such as ransomware and zero-day malware.

  4. Advanced Endpoint Client Security

    Block ransomware before it compromises user devices.
    Traditional antivirus (AV) has been trusted for years to protect computers. This was a sound approach when the total number of signatures required numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Today, millions of new forms of malware are discovered each month.

    To protect endpoints from this endless onslaught of malware attacks, SonicWall recommends using a next-generation antivirus (NGAV) solution that can monitor the behavior of a system to look for malicious activities, such as the unauthorized encryption of your files.

    For example, SonicWall Capture Client delivers advanced malware protection and additional security capabilities for SonicWall firewall

Ransomware remains one of the most damaging cyberattacks to businesses. Follow these four ransomware protection best practices to help ensure ransomware does not impact your ability to operate.

4 Ways to Protect Your Virtualized Infrastructure

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Adopting a virtualized infrastructure is well established as a cost- and space-savings model, but there are additional benefits as well. Whether you are using virtual servers deployed in the cloud or on-premises, there are proven best practices to help you maintain the security posture that operate and protect virtual environments.

While physical appliances remain as powerful workforces, they sometimes require certain network traffic configurations to ensure they can properly protect and integrate with virtual environments

Virtual firewalls, like the SonicWall NSv, are the No. 1 type of virtual appliance being deployed across environments. Securing an environment requires looking at all types of access and uses, such as remote access, communications and management.

SonicWall network security solutions operate and protect virtual environments in four categories:

  • Security: Network Security Virtual Firewall protects virtual environments at an intra-VLAN level.
  • Email: Email Security solution protects organizations against spam, viruses, phishing, ransomware and malware that enter through email. The solution can integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Office 365 and other on-premise and cloud email providers.
  • Remote Access: Secure Mobile Access provides anytime, anywhere access for any device to securely access an organization’s internal resources while the Web Application Firewall gives organizations the necessary controls around their forward-facing offerings.
  • Management: NSv deployments may be centrally managed using the on-premise SonicWall Global Management System (GMS) and the SonicWall Capture Security Center, an open, scalable cloud security management, monitoring, reporting and analytics software delivered as a cost-effective service offering. Capture Security Center gives the ultimate in visibility, agility and capacity to govern the entire SonicWall virtual and physical firewall ecosystem with greater clarity, precision, and speed — all from a single pane of glass.

SonicWall works diligently to ensure customers have access to best-in-class professional services delivered by Authorized Services Partners. These security solutions are optimized within virtual environments.

As Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) offerings and cloud-based providers continue to grow, implementing trusted SonicWall platforms to protect, secure and manage your environment will allow you to grow and be more mobile through SonicWall’s virtualized product offerings.

Request a demo or trial of these products from your local partner or reach out to the Partner Enabled Services team to help you secure your virtualized environment through SonicWall Partner Enabled Services.