Globalization and foreign investments have completely changed the way enterprises are run today. Enterprises are expanding geographically to diversify their risk portfolio, but this expansion hasn’t been linear. From mergers to buyouts, today’s enterprises have endless possibilities, which translates into inorganic, exponential growth—something that’s become the industry norm.

On October 21, 2016 at approximately 4am PST, the internet broke. OK, we know the internet doesn’t “break.” But hundreds of important services powering our modern web infrastructure had outages – all stemming from a DDoS targeting Dyn, one of the largest DNS providers on the internet.

In this edition of News That Makes the Channel Cringe, a new Sophos report reveals IT pros can’t identify almost half (45%) of the traffic flowing through their networks. The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls study, which included the responses of 2,700 mid-size business IT leaders, goes on to say 25% can’t identify over 70% of total network traffic. That’s a massive blind spot, especially with mounting concerns over cybersecurity. The network is what keeps your clients connected.

Web security for online businesses is an area not very well understood by many. Influx of content managing systems has led to a lot of online presence that is basically confused on how online security works. Some of the people who use these CMS do not know what web security is and how to implement it.

Open source has come a long way. Open source components are the building blocks of arguably every organization’s software. According to Stack Overflow’s 2018 developer survey results, nearly half of professional developers contribute to open source projects, and 40% listed contribution to open source software as part of their non-formal learning background.

Today we are happy to announce the general availability of CFEngine 3.12.0 LTS beta. The release of 3.12.0 beta took longer than expected. As a result we have decided to adjust our release schedule, and we releasing 3.12.0 beta now and later this year 3.12.0 will be the next official LTS release.

Helping to protect IT environments from cyber attacks and comply with tightening compliance standards, SIEM systems are becoming the cornerstone for security paradigms implemented by a growing number of organizations.

WordPress may power the majority or the internet, but Joomla! is the second most popular CMS on the planet, representing 6.1% of all known CMS websites. So we felt it was important to integrate it directly into our external website security and vulnerability scanner. Sitting alongside special checks for WordPress, Drupal and SilverStripe websites, we scan potential issues with the core version of Joomla! and any plugins installed.