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15+ years of botnets

November 19, 2018 by Christine Barry

As we were preparing to celebrate our 15 year anniversary, news broke that another large botnet is running around infecting home routers. This time it's an older vulnerability being used that should have been patched years ago:

BCMUPnP_Hunter finds its prey by scanning for vulnerable UPnP on TCP port 5431, followed by UDP port 1900 used by Broadcom’s implementation.

Home routers are a favorite vehicle for botnets because there are a bunch of them online and they are rarely updated or even thought of once they've been installed. Today's a good day to add “check on router” to your home maintenance checklist.

The BCMUPnP_Hunter #botnet hit the news last week. This blog looks at where it fits into the long and destructive history of malicious botnets. Click To Tweet

The news about BCMUPnP_Hunter caused me to wonder about botnets in general. How long have we been dealing with them, anyway? What was the first botnet? How did it work?

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Christine Barry

Christine Barry is Senior Chief Blogger and Social Media Manager at Barracuda. In this role, she helps bring Barracuda stories to life and facilitate communication between the public and Barracuda internal teams. Prior to joining Barracuda, Christine was a field engineer and project manager for K12 and SMB clients for over 15 years. She holds several technology credentials, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Business Administration. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

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After 15 years the goal should be to make cybersecurity much less exciting

November 16, 2018 by Mike Vizard

For that last 15 years there has been one inexorable fact about cybersecurity that remains a constant. The size and scope of the attack surface that needs to be defended keeps expanding. Fifteen years ago, the issue was securing PCs accessing servers on a network. Today there are now millions of mobile computing devices accessing sensitive data using a variety of wired and wireless networks that all need to be secured. To make matters even more challenging, servers are now running both on-premises and in public clouds. The applications running in those environments are also becoming more complex thanks to the rise of microservices based on containers that will soon span hybrid cloud computing environments. Add in pending wave of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and it is abundantly clear managing cybersecurity is not for the faint of heart.

'It is abundantly clear managing cybersecurity is not for the faint of heart.' ~@mvizardClick To Tweet

Mike Vizard

Mike Vizard has covered IT for more than 25 years, and has edited or contributed to a number of tech publications including InfoWorld, eWeek, CRN, Baseline, ComputerWorld, TMCNet and Digital Review. He currently blogs for IT Business Edge and contributes to CIOinsight, The Channel Insider, Programmableweb and Slashdot. Mike also blogs about emerging cloud technology for SmarterMSP.

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Executives reflect on 15 years of Barracuda

November 14, 2018 by Anne Campbell

2003 marked the beginning for Barracuda Networks. A lot has changed since then, both in terms of the security landscape and the company itself. Barracuda grew from a six-person startup company operating out of an office over a coffeeshop in Los Altos, California, to a global company with offices all over the world and multiple product lines offering solutions across a variety of threat vectors.

As the company celebrates its 15^th anniversary, we sat down with a few of the team members who have been here from the beginning (or very close to it) to get their thoughts on how Barracuda has evolved over the years and what core principles have stood the test of time. [Read more…] about Executives reflect on 15 years of Barracuda

Anne Campbell

Anne Campbell is the public relations manager for Barracuda. She's been with the organization since 2014, working on content and public relations for Barracuda MSP, the MSP-dedicated business unit of Barracuda. She started her career in newspaper and magazine journalism, and she brings that editorial point of view the work she does, using it to help craft compelling stories.

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Fifteen years is a long time in cybersecurity

November 14, 2018 by Phil Muncaster

This month Barracuda Networks celebrates its 15^th anniversary. So it would seem like an opportune moment to take stock of the past decade-and-a-half to see how the threat landscape has changed. Over that time, it’s fundamentally been driven by two major inter-connected themes: technological change and the motivations of those doing the attacking. The former has opened up major new opportunities for the latter, drawing in an ever-more diverse spread of criminal, hacktivist, and nation-state actors.

'Over the last 15 years, the threat landscape has been driven by technological change and the motivations of the attackers, as the former has opened up major new opportunities for the latter.' @philmuncasterClick To Tweet

The good news is that as threats evolve we’ve become better and better as an industry at stopping them. The challenge is to ensure the majority of boards understand the importance of investing enough and in the right areas of people process and technology to adequately manage cyber risk.

Phil Muncaster

Phil Muncaster is a technology writer and editor with over 12 years’ experience working on some of the biggest technology titles around, including Computing, The Register, V3 and MIT Technology Review. He spent over two years in Hong Kong immersed in the Asian tech scene and is now back in London where information security has become a major focus for his work.

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Why SD-WAN should be your cloud adoption strategy

November 13, 2018 by Amar Singh

The benefits of the cloud are abundant. Low adoption costs, universal accessibility and, frankly speaking, liberation from the often onerous and existing processes. However, you already know that.

'SD-WAN, or software-defined wide area network, must be part of every business cloud strategy.' ~ Amar Singh @amisecuredClick To Tweet

In this blog post I am going to discuss a little-known technology, SD-WAN, that in my opinion must be part of every business cloud strategy, regardless if you are well established in the cloud, moving to the cloud or planning your migration.

Amar Singh

Amar is the CEO & Founder of the Cyber Management Alliance. Amar is an industry acknowledged expert and public speaker and is regularly invited to speak and share his insights by some of the largest and most respected organisations in the world including The BBC, The Economist’s Intelligence Unit, The Financial Times, SC Magazine, InfoSec Magazine, Computer Weekly, The Register and the AlJazeera English Channel. You can connect with Amar on LinkedIn here and follow him on Twitter here.

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AWS re:Invent – Q&A with Fleming Shi, Barracuda SVP Advanced Technology

November 12, 2018 by Anne Campbell

The Barracuda team has been busy preparing to make the trip to AWS re:Invent at the end of the month, and we hope you’re looking forward to it as much as we are. One of the big highlights of the event for us will be our breakout session: Moving 400 Engineers to AWS: Our Journey to Secure Adoption.

Fleming Shi, senior vice president of advanced technology engineering here at Barracuda, will be leading the session, along with Tim Jefferson, our vice president of public cloud. To find more about the session and his other recommendations at the event, we sat down with Fleming for a quick chat. Here’s what he shared with us. [Read more…] about AWS re:Invent – Q&A with Fleming Shi, Barracuda SVP Advanced Technology

Anne Campbell

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Coming to Terms with the Good, Bad and Ugly of Cyber Insurance

November 9, 2018 by Mike Vizard

It would appear business executives are finally getting the message when it comes to appreciating the risks associated with cybersecurity. The cyber insurance market is booming. A report from CyberPolicy, an online cyber insurance marketplace, finds the number of cyber insurance policies being taken out increased on average 69 percent per quarter over the last year.

'Nearly half (46%) of SMBs cited contractual requirements as being the main reason for buying cyber insurance.' ~@MVizardClick To Tweet

The primary drivers of that growth are two-fold. The first is the price of cyber insurance is falling as more customers seek it. The CyberPolicy report finds that in April of 2017, the average monthly premium for a $1 million limit policy was $271 per month. In June 2018, the same $1 million policy limit, but with more comprehensive coverage, went for only $77 per month. The report also notes first-time cyber insurance shoppers are on the rise among SMB owners, experiencing a quarterly growth of 34 percent over the last year. CyberPolicy customers are also requesting higher insurance limits, with 90 percent of small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) purchasing policies with coverage limits between $1 and $5 million.

Mike Vizard

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AWS re:Invent – Q&A with Tim Jefferson, Barracuda VP of Public Cloud

November 8, 2018 by Anne Campbell

The Barracuda team has big plans for AWS re:Invent 2018, which is coming up Nov. 26 to 30 in Las Vegas, and we hope you’ll join us there. You can read more about what we’ll be up to at the conference in our recent blog post about what you need to know before you go.

To help you prepare for the conference, we sat down with Tim Jefferson, VP of Public Cloud at Barracuda, to discuss the sessions he recommends, what he’s looking forward to about attending re:Invent, and the breakout session on Barracuda’s journey to securely adopting AWS.

Headed to re:Invent? Check out which sessions Tim Jefferson, Barracuda's VP of Public Cloud, recommends!Click To Tweet

Anne Campbell

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Barracuda and Microsoft – Pure Gold

November 6, 2018 by Rich Turner

Microsoft has just launched another partnership tier – Gold ISV – and Barracuda has achieved this latest Microsoft competency. We have been a Gold Application Development Partner since the partnership tiers were first formed, and last year we became a Gold Cloud Platform partner.

Barracuda public cloud teams are excited to announce that Barracuda has achieved the Microsoft Gold ISV competency. Barracuda is also a Gold Application Development and Gold Cloud Platform Partner.Click To Tweet

While it’s always great, of course, to be recognized by Microsoft, this is also important for our partners and customers because it demonstrates our ongoing commitment and relationship with Microsoft. We work closely across many different departments and engineering groups at Microsoft to ensure our solutions remain cutting-edge and provide great value to our customers. With a company as large as Microsoft – they have 131,000 employees and recorded sales of $110 Billion last year – this is no easy feat, but we are passionate about this relationship – and very proud to be recognized as “Gold” in these three key categories.

Rich Turner

Rich is the Product Marketing Manager, Information Management. He's been with Barracuda since the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich specializes in cloud-deployed solutions, information management, and archiving systems. His experience includes extensive work on OEM opportunities and the legal community.

If you'd like to get in touch with Rich, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

You can email Rich at rturner@barracuda.com.

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