DDoS Blog Series Part 2: How Do Consumers and Businesses Protect Against Cyber Crime?

December 12, 2016 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Several spectacular attacks in the past few months have demonstrated the power of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and the importance of cybersecurity. DDoS attacks against blogger Brian Krebs, hosting provider OVH and domain name system provider Dyn crippled a reporter’s web site, shut down cloud-based customers and blocked access to major services such as Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, Airbnb and Etsy.

DDoS Blog Series Part 1: Evolving Internet Attacks Turn Smart Devices Against You

December 5, 2016 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a cyber assault intended to block legitimate access to organizations and servers on the Internet. There are two types of DoS attacks: a standard DoS and a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS).

How the Seismic DDoS Attack on Dyn Shook the Internet

November 28, 2016 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

On October 21, 2016, hackers launched one of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet Performance Management company Dyn. The cloud-based Domain Name System (DNS) provider supports many major web properties such as Twitter, Reddit, Spotify, Airbnb, Netflix and Amazon’s web services. When Dyn’s servers and network connections were overwhelmed by the cyberattack, Internet users were unable to access the sites.

How the Hacker Force is like Duct Tape, Padawans

May 4, 2015 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Gather ‘round my Padawans, master trainer knows that the hacker-chlorians are strong among many of you. As someone who has battled the dark side of the Hacker Force since the Internet’s days of screens-that-are-green, I will share my knowledge of the force.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Protecting Your Assets and Dealing with “The Emergency”

December 18, 2014 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) planning is the process of developing the plans, processes and procedures to respond to the range of incidents. We start with understanding the essential functions of an organization, called Business Impact Analysis (BIA). In life, we set the same priorities: protection of family and friends, shelter, food and water and other life-giving essentials.