Meltdown and Spectre: How to Handle These New Vulnerabilities

On January 3, 2018, a group of researchers announced a series of vulnerabilities affecting nearly all microprocessors since 1995. Over the last several weeks, you’ve probably seen many dramatic articles proclaiming doom and gloom regarding Meltdown and Spectre. Even the names strike fear to your core as you conjure images of a digital apocalypse.

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Meltdown and Spectre: How to Handle These New Vulnerabilities

On January 3, 2018, a group of researchers announced a series of vulnerabilities affecting nearly all microprocessors since 1995. Over the last several weeks, you’ve probably seen many dramatic articles proclaiming doom and gloom regarding Meltdown and Spectre. Even the names strike fear to your core as you conjure images of a digital apocalypse.

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DoS, DDos and DeOS… Oh My!!

In the security industry, we classify our security infrastructure in a variety of ways. One important classification method is called the “CIA Triad,” which refers to three security objectives defined by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). These three objectives are Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. The goal of any information security team is to protect against these three objectives, and the goal of an attacker is to compromise one or more of these objectives.

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How Data is Delivered

Every second of every day, data is being sent and received. Billions of data packets are processed by your company’s network every day. In fact, you received dozens of packets just to read this article, but the vast majority of us have no idea how this works. People have no clue as to what goes on behind the scenes to ensure data actually gets to the right device.

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What is a LAN?

If you’ve been around IT for even a few minutes, you’ve likely heard the acronyms “LAN” and “WAN” used by fellow technicians. But with all of the possible variations of networks—different sizes, different arrangements, and different protocols—how do you tell the difference between a LAN and a WAN and everything in between? The simple answer is one of scope and size.

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