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New F5 solution defends customers’ websites through
protection against bots and credential stuffing
which blocks over one
billion application attacks
a day.
5 has unveiled Silverline
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Shape Defense, a security
solution that protects
websites from the rising tide of
fake Internet traffic. With this new
fully managed service, customers
can better focus on their users
and safeguard businesses against
bots, credential stuffing, scraping
and other automated attacks that
result in fraud and abuse, leading
to compromised efficiency, loss of
revenue and damage to the brand.
Silverline Shape Defense uses Artificial
Intelligence to accurately determine
in real time if an application request
is from a human or a bot and further
differentiate between a bad actor and
authorised individual. This approach
stops bad traffic without introducing
login friction for legitimate users.
Businesses benefit from reduced online
fraud losses, lowered operating costs
and an improved user experience.
Silverline Shape Defense leverages
the power of the entire Shape network
With the launch of
Silverline Shape Defense,
customers can now
protect their applications
with an integrated,
comprehensive set of
fully managed security
solutions that also include
Silverline DDoS Protection, Silverline
Web Application Firewall and
Silverline Threat Intelligence.
“The addition of Shape Defense on
Silverline will allow our customers
to protect their applications and
digital initiatives against malicious
cyberattacks without the overhead
of a large security team, like those
at a typical Fortune 500 company,”
said Gail Coury, Silverline VP and
GM at F5.
UK IS FOURTH MOST EXPOSED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD FOR
CYBER VULNERABILITIES, SAYS RAPID7 RESEARCH
he UK is the fourth most
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exposed country to cyber
vulnerabilities in the world,
behind the US, China and South Korea,
a report by Rapid7 has found.
Rapid7’s National Industry Cloud
Exposure Report (NICER) for 2020
also finds that despite significant
efforts on the part of the UK National
Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) to
encourage exposure reduction across
all organisations, the UK’s share of
SMB servers has increased by 22%
from the same period in 2019.
However, the increase in SMB was offset
by a 21% reduction in exposed Telnet
services and 11% reduction in exposed
FTP services. And while the UK has
fewer total vulnerabilities per-exposed
service/system than other countries,
due to continued efforts by the NCSC,
these vulnerabilities account for under
38.4% of all exposed surfaces, showing
more work needs to be done on the
vulnerability management side by
organisations and hosting providers.
In a time of global pandemic and
recession, the report offers a databacked
analysis of the changing
Internet risk landscape, measuring the
prevalence and geographic distribution
of commonly known exposures in the
interconnected technologies that shape
our world.
The research team calculated a
country’s risk by measuring the total
attack surface, (which reviews how
much of a business is exposed to
attacks); the total exposure of selected
surfaces such as SMB and Telnet
(which should never be exposed);
the number of CVEs present, as
more known vulnerabilities means
more exposure; the distribution of
vulnerability rates and the maximum
vulnerability rate. u
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