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Next Layer Protection Against Known and Unknown Cyber Threats

THE CHALLENGE: Although enterprises spend millions of dollars on cyber security, the attacks, which are constantly updated, will easily bypass firewall, Sandbox, Mail Relay / Mail Gateway and Anti-Virus systems in use within organizations. How is protection against unknown cyber threats assured? How is the safety of files exchanged on the LAN-WAN assured? Is the…

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Dear CISO: One way to make attachments as fast and as safe as E-mail…

Regarding your response written on the Symantec website https://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/sanitizing-email-attachements-what-i-would-have?list_context_id=1611&list_context_type=sc_forum  regarding your plea of what you would like to have when sanitizing E-mail attachments.  It’s true everybody needs E-mails. And let’s be really frank, everybody needs those E-mails to have clean attachments. You cannot separate between the E-mails and their attachments. Standard formats even word, excel,…

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Response to Cyber Attack on Government and Public Institutions April 2017

On April 26, 2017, the Israeli National Cyber Authority (NCA) published it had thwarted a massive cyber-attack on Israeli businesses and infrastructure in recent days in an effort to hurt the Israeli economy. The NCA explained that the cyber-attack was based on sending posing emails in the name of the victim organization, and was targeted against 210…

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Why is Anti-Virus a good start, but not enough?

Anti-Virus, the traditional response, is a classic solution against already known threats, in many of those cases based on signature detection. But Anti-Virus is getting worse at detecting both known and new threats, as discussed here http://www.csoonline.com/article/3159073/computers/is-antivirus-getting-worse.html Symantec, the giant Anti-Virus manufacturer has declared:  “AV software, which is used to prevent, detect and remove or…

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