Protecting BGP Sessions – Step-by-Step Guide to Prevent an Easy DDoS

Organizations are not protecting their BGP session. Take the time to ask the question …. Do we have our BGP ports protected? Are you: If not, work with your peers to deploy an Infrastructure ACL (iACL) to cover all your network devices, deploy specific data plane ACLs on your routers/switches to protect them, work with

Cyberwarfare is here; now what?

Cyberwarfare activities were always on the Internet. STUXNET, Google Aurora, and many other attacks were a fact of life. We had cyber attacks when Yugoslavia broke up. We have constant attacks in the Middle East. Cyberwar was part of a security practitioner’s threat model from the late ‘80s until the early 2000s. Then, cybercrime started Read More

Protect your BGP Sessions from DDoS Attacks

Networks that think they are “DDoS resilient” get surprised when their BGP Sessions go down from an easily crafted DDoS. BGP port (179) is left open to the Internet and is an easy target for a low-level attack that will knock down your BGP session. Shodan’s BGP Report 325,082 open port 179 instances (June 2023). Read More

Why Are Cybercriminals Targeting Healthcare?

Why are cybercriminals targeting healthcare when the medical community puts patients first? Why are cybercriminals taking actions that threaten people’s lives at risk? The focused cybercriminal targeting of healthcare is now an increasing cause of death. Is this data suppressed? Why? The liability insurance covering all the healthcare community’s medical care would skyrocket. The closure

Welcome to CyberWar & LongTerm Ramification Unleashed by Russia’s War

Cyberwar is today’s reality. We’ve moved from a world of cyber-criminal threats to an interconnected arena where any malicious activity is feasible. Cyber-Kinetic attacks that destroy, kill, and massively disrupt civil society are part of our new security threat landscape reality. Geography will not help. The massively interconnected Internet means that you are a cyberwarrior’s