PT-2019-13685 · Veritas · Veritas Resiliency Platform

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Veritas Resiliency Platform versions prior to 3.4 HF1 Description: An issue allows a malicious user to execute commands with root privilege within the virtual machine, related to resiliency plans and custom script functionality...

PT-2019-13687 · Veritas · Veritas Resiliency Platform

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Veritas Resiliency Platform versions prior to 3.4 HF1 Description: An issue allows a user with sufficient privileges to overwrite any file in the virtual machine through a directory traversal vulnerability when uploading an application bundle...

PT-2019-13684 · Veritas · Veritas Resiliency Platform

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Veritas Resiliency Platform versions prior to 3.4 HF1 Description: A persistent cross-site scripting issue allows a malicious user to inject malicious script into another user's browser, related to resiliency plans functionality. This occurs...

Deployment Diversity for DNS Resiliency

Consider Addressing Delegation Servers with Varying Network Routes Written by: Jim Gilbert and Barry Greene Don't Forget DNS Similar to diverse workforces performing at a higher level, diverse network service deployments perform at a higher level that is increasingly important as the Internet...

Deployment Diversity for DNS Resiliency

Similar to diverse workforces performing at a higher level, diverse network service deployments perform at a higher level that is increasingly important as the Internet continues to augment our reality. Akamai has 20 years of edge service deployment experience. Akamai's Intelligent Edge has prove...

Fast DNS Secondary Implementation: Order or Operations for NS Zone & Registrar Records

Akamai's Fast DNS service provides cloud-based, authoritative domain services to thousands of organizations. Fast DNS is the most widely deployed cloud DNS service pushed to the edge of the Internet. Every organization must protect their domain name. Akamai's built Fast DNS to focus on domain nam...

Own Your Digital Future: Cloud Migration Best Practices

Many organizations are well underway on their journey to using cloud platforms to become more agile, reduce costs, and drive efficiencies. Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel though so to speak, and reusing established design patterns can be the difference between a delayed rollout and a fast and...

Cyber resilience for the modern enterprise

Many organizations are undergoing a digital transformation that leverages a mix of cloud and on-premises assets to increase business efficiency and growth. While increased dependence on technology is necessary for this transformation, and to position the business for success, it does pose risks...

Cyber resilience for the modern enterprise

Many organizations are undergoing a digital transformation that leverages a mix of cloud and on-premises assets to increase business efficiency and growth. While increased dependence on technology is necessary for this transformation, and to position the business for success, it does pose risks...

Cloud Migration: Technical and Business Considerations

If you’re like many businesses, you’re moving applications into public and private cloud infrastructures. You’ve seen how the cloud’s agility, resiliency, and scalability drives business growth. Fortunately, rolling out new apps in the cloud is easy when you have containers, microservices, and...

Akamai's DNS Contribution to Internet Resiliency

Background Akamai Technologies recently contributed its "Serve Stale" DNS algorithm to Version 9 of the Internet Systems Consortium's ISC Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND open source Domain Name System DNS project. As the Internet's most widely used DNS implementation, BIND operates ubiquitousl...

AnswerX - Akamai's 'Secret' DNS Platform

As I work with Operators all over the world, I'm amazed at two worrying. First, Operators are still treating DNS as an afterthought. Everyone knows that if DNS is down, the network is down. Too many people are taking DNS's resiliency for granted. DNS "just works" is assumed to be norm until it do...

Squirrels, Not Hackers, Pose Biggest Threat to Electric Grid

SAN FRANCISCO–The crown jewel of North America’s critical infrastructure is its electric grid. A successful cyberattack on it would be devastating. But according to Marcus Sachs, CSO with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC, fears of a cyberattack are overblown. Sachs told RS...

Gateway Edge Service: Zuul

Zuul is a gateway service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more. Zuul is the front door for all requests from devices and web sites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, Zuul is built to enable dynamic routing,...

Government, Industry Focusing on Issue of Resiliency

WASHINGTON–As things stand right now, the United States has no overarching national information security policy or centralized agency responsible for defending the government’s networks in the event of a serious cyberattack. There have been many pushes over the years to change that and put one...

Chertoff Group Security Series Educates Financial Services Institutions about Cybercrime

Last week I attended The Chertoff Groups Security Series on Building Resiliency for Financial Services Sector. They provided insight into what theyre doing to protect their organizations, how they see the industry evolving, and firsthand knowledge about emerging threats...

Peer-to-Peer Botnets Grow Fivefold

The resiliency of peer-to-peer botnets is too good to pass up for fraudsters and spam mavens tired of watching expensive and centralized command and control infrastructures be taken down by authorities and technology companies. Botnets such as ZeroAccess, TDL4/TDSS and Zeus v3 have shown the way...

PushDo Malware Returns with Domain Generation Algorithm

Four times since 2008, authorities and technology companies have taken the prolific PushDo malware and Cutwail spam botnet offline. Yet much like the Energizer Bunny, it keeps coming back for more. In early March, researchers at Damballa discovered a new version of the malware that had adopted a...

Resilient Security Requires Creativity and Intelligence

Try to dampen your innate cynicism for one second, forget the source of this next comment, and absorb it: “We need resilient defenses.” Dr. Steve King uttered those words at a small security event in Boston last week. Four simple words you’ve heard before that today make so much sense. King is th...

Skype: Client Error Causes Global Outage

In response to a 24 hour outage that occurred last week on their internet voice and video chat platform, Skype’s Chief Information Officer has revealed that an error in some versions of the company’s software client is to blame. CIO Lars Rabbe, writing on Skype’s ‘The Big Blog,’ confirmed reports...