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As cyberattacks escalate, Infoblox and Forrester Consulting investigated how security and risk teams are using their DNS investments. 94% of S&R leaders either use or consider DNS as a starting point for threat investigations but only 43% of security and risk leaders rely on DNS as a data source to complete their investigations.

With anyone who can work from home actually doing so during the pandemic, networking - and therefore network security - has become more business-critical than it was before. When Freeform Dynamics surveyed Register readers for their experiences with network security, it was frustrating to see so many say that the one sure way to persuade management to take it seriously was to suffer a major computer security breach.

CBTS has announced the integration of cloud-delivered threat prevention into its CBTS Network Security as a Service. The CBTS partnership with Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. enables CBTS to unify Check Point's industry-leading CloudGuard cloud-native security with highly customized CBTS SD-WAN solutions supporting the rapid shift to distributed application architecture and flexible work from anywhere policies.

How organizations can realize the benefits of intent-based networking across their hybrid networks.

VMware on Thursday announced that it's acquiring network security company Lastline for its research team and threat detection technology. The firm also noted that its team includes 15 PhDs. While VMware has praised Lastline employees, TechCrunch has learned that the virtualization giant actually plans on laying off roughly 50 people from Lastline following the acquisition - this represents 40% of the company's staff.

Here's how employees in the US, UK, France and Germany are putting systems at risk, according to CyberArk. As companies have responded to the coronavirus pandemic by shifting employees from the physical workspace to the home office, the remote working environment has greatly expanded-and with this new normal, come some challenges to corporate security. "The security posture of organizations continues to be tested as many remote employees face daunting challenges balancing productivity and security across their professional and personal workspaces," said Marianne Budnik, CMO of CyberArk, in the press release.

With the IT world turned upside-down for many organisations, it's a good time to talk network security. Because while it's something we all need more than ever, there's almost always a gap between demand and budget, or between need and the ability to service that need.

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WireGuard, a new VPN protocol with both strong performance and easy setup, has been adopted by startup Tailscale as the basis of a peer-to-peer remote networking system that is both secure and quick to configure. WireGuard is an open source VPN which achieved its 1.0 release on March 30th, coinciding with the release of Linux 5.6.

Justin Jett, director of audit and compliance at analytics company Plixer, said as more and more employees begin working from home, organizations are struggling to maintain network privacy and handle security issues. "Because of bandwidth capacity issues, many organizations are struggling to provide secure VPN connections for all of their remote employees. This can result in employees not using the VPN, or having a significantly poor experience as compared to when in the office. Since not all employees understand how VPNs work, some employees are bound to engage in activities, like streaming video, that drastically tax the bandwidth for all users," Jett said.