It’s easy to be swayed by buzz words like “next-generation,” “new” and “cutting edge”—especially when it comes to technology. But for many people, switching to the latest bright-and-shiny offering may be unnecessary. After all, as the adage goes, “if it […]
Few technologies have exhibited the staying power of basic analog phone services. Affectionately known as POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), the earliest commercial analog phone systems were introduced in the late 1870s, and millions of POTS lines remain active in […]
IT modernization and new applications are forcing enterprises to rethink and rearchitect the network in support of business growth objectives and their digital aspirations. While digital transformation holds tremendous promise, it introduces an equal share of accountability for organizations to […]
Cybersecurity is more important than ever these days, which is why it’s imperative that government agencies’ data be protected by the highest level of government security standards. To ensure that agencies receive the highest level of cybersecurity protections under a […]
The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies recently discovered a hacktivist campaign affecting internet-exposed routers and switches that occurred primarily on May 13, 2021. During this campaign, the threat actor abused the victims’ misconfigured Cisco Smart Install protocol, which […]
Here’s everything you need to know about equipping your organization with a safe, fast, flexible and reliable network. Dedicated internet access at a glance What is it? The definition of dedicated internet access lies in its name. The key word, […]
Although the travel and hospitality industries took a big hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, the return to normalcy will bring a surge of traffic and revenue back to them in the coming months. However, with so much demand on the […]
It would be easy to keep important things secure from prying eyes if you sealed them in a box and chained the box to the bottom of the ocean. The tradeoff, of course, is that you would completely lose the […]
The last year was another active one for the DDoS attack space. The common themes of recent years — increased complexity, frequency and scale — continued to drive the space with actors shifting and adopting tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), […]
In recent years, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) events have become an ever-present threat, featuring attack traffic pushing to levels measured in terabits per second (Tbps). One of the key tools in the hands of cybercriminals seeking to increase the […]
