Fortinet gains traction in SD- WAN market with integrated offering
QUALYS ANNOUNCES NEW BROWSER EXTENSION TO HALT CRYPTOJACKING
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Fortinet gains traction in SD- WAN market with integrated offering
John Maddison , SVP of Products and Solutions Fortinet
ortinet , a global leader in broad , integrated and automated
F cybersecurity solutions , has announced it has gained significant traction in the SD-WAN marketplace by delivering a comprehensive SD-WAN solution that provides both SD-WAN and security functionality in a single integrated offering for distributed enterprise branches .
QUALYS ANNOUNCES NEW BROWSER EXTENSION TO HALT CRYPTOJACKING
The growing appeal of SD-WAN technologies has caught the attention of the IT world and many are realising the benefits of efficient cloud adoption , broad application visibility and lowered operating costs . But without the right solution , the speed and agility of SD-WAN can come at the expense of security . To respond to this pervasive industry challenge , Fortinet produced the industry ’ s first NGFW-centric approach to SD-WAN by tightly integrating SD-WAN functionality into the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall . This approach produces a compelling solution that combines the increased scalability , flexibility , simplicity and cost savings of SD-WAN with industryleading security protection . “ To make sure customers realise the benefits of SD-WAN without compromising security , Fortinet has evolved our advanced SD-WAN features in the latest FortiOS releases ,” said John Maddison , SVP of Products and Solutions at Fortinet . ollowing extensive research from Qualys Malware
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Research Labs , Qualys has announced the Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker , a new Google Chrome browser extension to protect users from browser-based coin mining attacks .
Cryptomining is a rising online threat that is expected to grow as digital currencies and Blockchain technologies continue to gain wider acceptance . Attackers are employing various techniques to use unsuspecting users ’ systems for malicious purposes .
Cryptojacking has gone mainstream recently because it is safer for cybercriminals and webmasters than ransomware , which requires interaction with the victim to collect payment .
And because cryptojacking is browser based , it is easier to infect victims than hacking into servers . As cryptomining becomes more resource-intensive over time in terms of compute power and electricity consumption required , stealing those resources is becoming more enticing to attackers .
Cryptojacking attacks leverage the victim system ’ s resources via malicious JavaScript to mine certain cryptocurrencies . The resourceintensive mining process typically consumes more than 70 % of CPU , that reduces system performance , increases power consumption and can cause possible permanent damage to the system .
Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Extension relies not only on the domain blacklist but also uses heuristics to identify underlying cryptomining algorithms like CryptoNight ( used for mining Monero ) and its various artefacts .
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