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Cato CTRL Threat Research: Unmasking Hellcat – Not Your Average Ransomware Gang

CATO Networks

Executive Summary Theres a new ransomware gang targeting critical infrastructure, government organizations, educational institutions, and energy sectors. Iraq City Government (December 1, 2024) Figure 5. This was not the first time the Iraqi government had been targeted. Their name? But who exactly are they?

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Cloud for State and Local Governments

Akins IT

But when it comes to the cloud, state and local governments face some unique considerations and challenges. For more than a decade weve been working with these kinds of organizations and understand the special needs that government entities must consider in addition to all of the other typical issues related to a cloud migration.

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Guide to how Local Governments can Prevent Security Breaches

Akins IT

How Local Governments Can Prevent Security Breaches As an IT Director or IT Manager for a local government agency, you're responsible for ensuring the security of sensitive data and systems. Cyberattacks on state, counties, cities, and tribal government IT infrastructure continue to occur.

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Top 5 Myths About SD-WAN

CATO Networks

Many MPLS customers today add VPN encryption to secure the network. Most often, MPLS configurations backhaul traffic to a datacenter and rely on the firewall at the datacenter to provide security. In reality, VPN is still an option but the connection must be officially registered with the Chinese government.

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Achieving NIS2 Compliance: Essential Steps for Companies 

CATO Networks

This includes measures such as risk management, incident detection and response, regular security assessments, and encryption of sensitive data. Establish a Security Governance Framework Develop a robust security governance framework that outlines the roles, responsibilities, and processes necessary to achieve and maintain NIS2 compliance.

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Not All Backbones are Created Equal

CATO Networks

Encrypted tunnels across these last-mile transport carry traffic to nearest PoP. Cato PoPs are connected by private and encrypted links through a government-approved provider to Cato’s Hong Kong PoP. All communications between PoPs, with Cato Sockets, or Cato Clients are secured by AES-256 encrypted tunnels.

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Integrating Key Vault Secrets with Azure Synapse Analytics

Apium Hub

IP Firewall: Configure IP firewall rules if you need specific access control. Regulatory and Security Requirements When to Use: If you operate in a regulated industry that demands strict security and data governance (e.g., GitHub or Azure DevOps) for version control, which helps manage your workspace artifacts (e.g.,