Have employees who are working from home? Check this blog post out about why cybersecurity is more important than ever:
https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/employees-working-from-home
Weekly security threat news summary designed to help your team continue to defend your organization from evolving cybersecurity threats during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/covid-19-weekly-threat-roundup
THREAD SPOTLIGHT: CORONAVIRUS-RELATED PHISHING
Barracuda researchers have seen a steady increase in the number of COVID-19-related spear-phishing attacks since January, but they have observed a recent spike in this type of attack, up 667-percent since the end of February. Check out our new Threat Spotlight to see all the details about how these attacks and how they’re evolving and how to stay protected.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SOLUTION BRIEF:
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HOW F5 CAN HELP SCALE CAPACITY FOR REMOTE ACCESS AND SERVICE AVAILABILITY
To ensure your business continues to run smoothly during this crisis, consider the following solutions that support remote access capacity and service availability:
With so many employees working from home, many customers are struggling with capacity to enable secure remote access capabilities. F5’s remote access management solution, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) enables remote access (SSL VPN) amongst more capabilities, to simplify and secure access to applications.
Some organizations are facing significantly higher load on their websites and applications, and are having difficulty operating at scale. To address scalability, F5 has two load balancing solutions:
For F5 BIG-IP customers BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager keeps your web sites and apps available and secure; intelligently balancing, delivering, and managing network traffic.
If you don’t have a BIG-IP solution, consider NGINX Plus for supported software-based load balancing—a quick and easy way to protect web applications under high load.
Juniper is offering a free secure “pop up Wifi network kit” for any temporary Covid-19 testing facility – including Mist Wireless Access Points, cloud configuration software, and SRX firewall. More details here.
SUPPORTING POP-UP TESTING FACILITIES
Many of our healthcare clients are expanding to support current or expected requirements for drive through testing. Juniper is offering a free “pop up Wi-Fi network” for temporary COVID-19 testing facilities. Initially available in the US, Canada, and the UK, this kit includes free Mist Access Points, cloud-hosted operations with an AI-driven assistant, and an SRX firewall (with PoE, DHCP, and optional LTE uplink). If you have a customer that may be a candidate for this, please contact COVID-Pop-Up@juniper.net
FREE PREMIUM SUPPORT SERVICES
We are offering free Premium Support Services for any medical, healthcare, or senior care customers globally. Premium Support includes priority technical support and priority RMA and logistics as well. Any customer in these industries will be fully supported even if they don’t have an active support or maintenance contract.
SECURING CRITICAL WORKLOADS
A free 60 day vSRX trial is available to all Juniper customers to use in their production networks. They can download and deploy on as many machines as needed at https://www.juniper.net/us/en/dm/free-vsrx-trial/
SECURING REMOTE SITES
Thousands of customers use the SRX for connectivity but aren’t using the security features. We have already heard of opportunistic attackers taking advantage of the COVID-19 disruption. Customers with existing SRXs (any size, physical or virtual) can get free AppSec, IPS, and SecIntel licenses for 90 days.
DEFENDING AGAINST DDOS
DDoS attacks are a significant part of today’s threat landscape and they continue to grow in magnitude, frequency, and sophistication. We have a leading solution with our partner Corero and during this time, we are offering 90 days free of Corero’s DDoS protection for our MX customers.
AI-DRIVEN ASSISTANT FOR EASIER REMOTE TROUBLESHOOTING
It can be a challenge for our IT customers to troubleshoot and manage their networks when they cannot get into the office. To make this easier, we are offering the Marvis Virtual Network Assistant free for 90 days to existing Mist wired/wireless assurance customers.
CASE STUDIES:
DARMOUTH :https://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/case-studies/3520677-en.pdf
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5tRh4Zq8Bo&feature=emb_title
SOLUTION BRIEF:
Secure, Automated Networks for Digital Learning: https://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510544-en.pdf
Business Continuity Requires Smarter Networks that Go Beyond Connectivity in Today’s New Norm: https://www.mist.com/wp-content/uploads/Mist_Business-Continuity-SB.pdf
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WFH (WORK FROM HOME) BEST PRACTICES
NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows for bursting local data to cloud hyperscalers. Because of this capability – we can quickly spin up VDI environments (for your remote workers) utilizing these cloud resources (without needing to add additional new infrastructure onsite to support it; and without needing to restructure your onsite data (it looks local to your users)).
You can find more information on the links below:
• https://cloud.netapp.com/virtual-desktops
• https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/vdi-cloud-volumes-ontap
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SECURELY CONNECT AND SCALE REMOTE WORKFORCES
During this unprecedented time, ensuring the health & safety of our employees is critical to all of us.
We realize that rapidly scaling remote work options to enable secure connectivity to SaaS, cloud, and data center applications is also top of mind for IT & Security leaders.
We have a number of solutions ready to go to help, all while maintaining your existing security posture. Join us online this week to learn more.
During each session, Field CTO Jason Georgi will walk through architecture and configuration options, share customer examples, and answer questions about deployment and scalability.
(Offer 1) For existing NGFW customers, all of our next-gen firewalls support always-on, secure access with GlobalProtect. We’re offering a free 90-day GlobalProtect subscription trial, to enable instant remote access capacity on existing infrastructure. Customers who need additional NGFW hardware capacity can contact us so we can help expedite hardware shipments.
(Offer 2) For new Prisma Access customers, time is of the essence, so we’re offering free, accelerated deployment and onboarding of remote users.
(Offer 3) For existing Prisma Access customers who need to onboard additional capacity, we will cover unanticipated spikes at no additional cost for 90 days.
CAMP PALO ALTO NETWORKS
If you have a child between the ages of 5-13, check this out! Introducing Camp Palo Alto Networks! This 9-week program (August 5th-September 30th) provides a weekly hour of worry-free distraction that’s both entertaining and educational. Talk about a win-win. We’re hoping this distraction will help keep your kids happy and entertained while you get some work done. Register here.
Varonis is providing free trial licenses for Varonis edge (ideal for remote workers) to help provide visibility and threat detection for VPN, DNS, and Web Proxy’s. Varonis edge helps detect attacks like malware, APT intrusion, and exfiltration, and puts them in context with your AD and core data stores – with the goal to provide anomaly detection in context with data access activity. Please contact us if you have interest in understanding this technology or having us help set up a trial for your environment.
Safety and security are of the utmost importance, especially when it comes to protecting loved ones and critical assets.
In light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak, Verkada is extending support to affected organizations by offering eligible applicants a “Remote Video Monitoring Station” completely free of charge for 90 days.
This remote monitoring station program includes up to 10 cameras and a VX51 viewing station, giving organizations an easy-to-deploy way to maintain real-time visibility of facilities via browser or smart device.