Executives from Cisco and Juniper sit on the FIRST board of directors. The global security group shares intelligence and aims to protect against cyberattacks.
The vendor claims it competes against companies like Amazon, Cisco, and Oracle. It also directly competes against content delivery firms like Akamai, Limelight, and Fastly.
The 111 Cybersecurity Tech Accord companies compete daily but all agree on the big picture: protecting customers and users and improving cybersecurity.
The vulnerability could affect more than 300,000 organizations including large banks and governments that rely on F5 Networks' popular load balancing software BIG-IP.
It’s essentially pocket change for the vendor — Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins' house sold for $10.65 million last year — but it could have broader implications for other security
The vendor first started talking about Connected Security earlier this year. It involves a layered approach to security where threat detection and policy enforcement is built into each layer.
The new service uses the AlienVault technology and threat intelligence combined with AT&T’s security operations center and managed services experience.
Urgent/11 includes six critical, remote code execution vulnerabilities. These could give an attacker full control over a targeted device via unauthenticated network packets.