Cyber Security – MEC Networks Corporation

No Tricks, Just Treats: 5 Ways for SMBs to Safeguard Their Networks Against Cyber Haunts

Kait Donieto — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:11:14 +0000

October brings the spookiest vibes of the year—ghosts, goblins, eerie shadows, and haunted houses abound. But while Halloween should be all about festive frights and fun, your business’s cybersecurity shouldn’t join the scare fest.

In addition to Halloween, October is also Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a dedicated period for raising awareness on how to stay secure online. As cyber threats against small businesses grow, protecting your network has never been more important or more achievable.

Did you know that 46% of all cyberattacks target businesses with under 1,000 employees?* With cybersecurity incidents becoming more common and costly, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need strategies that can secure their networks affordably and effectively.

Five ways to protect SMBs' network from unwelcome hauntings:

1. Don’t be afraid of the dark

It’s natural to fear what you can’t see, but with HPE Networking Instant On’s cloud management, you can monitor every device on your network, anytime, anywhere, right from your phone. So don’t worry about monsters (or hidden cyber-threats) lurking in the dark — you’ll have visibility at your fingertips.

2. Spin a web of network security policies

Spin a web of robust network security policy by setting password standards, enabling multi-factor authentication, and defining guidelines for sensitive data handling. Separate guest traffic from employee traffic, avoid shared management accounts, and assign access levels according to each user’s role. It’s all about keeping those “black widows” away from your network!

3. Avoid the zombie apocalypse. Protect against viruses.

A healthy network is a protected network. Install reliable anti-virus and anti-malware solutions to shield your end-user devices from viruses, trojans, and ransomware. This protection is essential for safe file sharing and internet use.

4. Don’t let your security go ghost

If your network security fails, you’ll be at risk of unwanted visitors. Always keep your systems and applications updated with the latest security patches, helping you avoid unwanted intrusions and protect sensitive data.

5. No tricks, all treats

With HPE Networking Instant On, robust security comes included — no extra costs, no hidden fees, and no tech expertise required. It’s a cybersecurity treat that’s as sweet as a Halloween candy apple!

Cybersecurity is essential year-round, but it doesn’t have to be a frightful task. By following these practical steps, you can keep your business network fast, reliable, and secure.

MEC Networks is an authorized distributor of HPE Networking Instant On. Connect with us to learn more.

* HG Insights, Software Spend Report: SMB and Mid-Market Trends in 2024

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MEC Networks Announces Partnership with senhasegura, The Global PAM Provider

Kait Donieto — Mon, 06 May 2024 02:00:42 +0000

MEC Networks is excited to announce its partnership with senhasegura, a global provider of Privileged Access Management (PAM). As a premier ICT distributor in the Philippines, MEC Networks is committed to bringing the best technology to individuals and organizations, and this partnership is a significant step forward in achieving that mission. By leveraging senhasegura’s platform, we can provide maximum security to businesses for the successful operation of their systems.

senhasegura: A Trusted Name in PAM

senhasegura is a frontrunner in the PAM landscape, offering a comprehensive suite of PAM solutions that are designed to secure and manage privileged access within organizations. Their platform empowers businesses to:

Safeguard Privileged Credentials

Secure password vaulting protects sensitive login information for users, systems, and applications, preventing unauthorized access and mitigating the risk of data breaches.

Enforce Granular Access Control

Granular access control lets organizations define and enforce precise permissions for privileged users, ensuring they only have the access level necessary to perform their tasks. This minimizes the attack surface and reduces the potential for privilege misuse.

Monitor Privileged Sessions

Monitoring capabilities provide real-time insights into privileged user activities. This allows organizations to detect suspicious behavior and investigate potential security incidents promptly.

Simplify Compliance Management

Streamline compliance efforts by adhering to industry regulations and standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and Audit.

Why senhasegura Stands Out

In a market saturated with cybersecurity solutions, senhasegura distinguishes itself through several key advantages:

Unmatched Security

Built with the highest security standards in mind, offering robust encryption, multi-factor authentication, and tamper-proof audit trails.

User-Friendly Interface

Prioritizes user experience, providing a clear and intuitive interface that simplifies privileged access management for both administrators and users.

Scalability and Flexibility

Seamlessly integrated with existing IT infrastructures, scaling to accommodate the growing needs of organizations of all sizes.

Unparalleled Support

Dedicated support team offers exceptional customer service, ensuring clients receive the assistance they need.

Leading PAM, simply. For you.

With our extensive experience and established status in the ICT distribution industry in the Philippines, MEC Networks is ideally positioned to distribute senhasegura’s PAM solutions throughout the country. This partnership signifies our commitment to providing individuals and organizations with the tools and expertise needed to combat cyber threats and safeguard their valuable data.

Don’t let privileged access vulnerabilities expose your organization to cyberattacks. Contact MEC Networks today to schedule a demo of senhasegura’s PAM platform and discover how it can revolutionize your approach to access security.

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Email Phishing is a Pervasive Phenomenon. Fortinet Suggests 3 Things to Combat It.

Kait Donieto — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 07:00:13 +0000

In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, email phishing is still a persistent ultimatum. Threat actors have long posed as trusted sources to target unsuspecting individuals through email and text messages, all in the quest to steal sensitive data.

Statistics from the Fortinet 2023 Global Ransomware Report highlight the effect of phishing as a top tactic, accounting for 56% of successful network infiltrations and ransomware attacks.

Gone are the days of easily recognizable email phishing attempts with glaring errors in spelling and grammar. The advent of AI-driven content tools has ushered in a new era where cybercriminals use artificial intelligence to create more convincing text messages and email phishing. This sophistication raises the stakes, increasing the likelihood of users unknowingly clicking on malicious links.

In this era of AI-crafted communications, employee vigilance is crucial in defending organizations against potential breaches. Traditional methods of spotting phishing attacks are no longer sufficient to ensure safety. To bolster organizational security, it is paramount to invest in the right technologies, such as robust spam filters and multi-factor authentication. Equally important is the ongoing education of employees, as their awareness and actions can make all the difference in protecting organizations from the ever-evolving threats of phishing and ransomware.

Phishing: The Top Weapon in Ransomware Attacks

Recent findings shed light on a concerning reality: phishing still reigns supreme as the primary delivery method for ransomware. This choice by cyber attackers is not without reason, as it continues to yield alarming success rates. Statistics from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reveal that a staggering 80% of organizations faced at least one incident where an employee was lured by a simulated phishing attempt.

Ransomware, a threat that knows no bounds in terms of industry or location, continues to plague businesses of all sizes. Despite 78% of business leaders believing they are well-prepared to obstruct ransomware attacks, the harsh truth is that half of them have fallen victim to such an attack within the past year.

Empower Your Workforce with Education Against Phishing

Safeguarding your enterprise from the ever-looming threat of ransomware begins with a well-informed workforce. Recognizing that most ransomware breaches enter through the gateway of phishing, employee education takes center stage. However, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to this endeavor; the key lies in tailoring the education to your unique organizational needs.

Fortinet gives some strategic services and programs that can serve as a solid foundation for a comprehensive employee security awareness initiative.

1. Security Awareness Training

Your employees are high targets for threat actors. To keep your organization safe, an ongoing cyber-awareness education program is important. Fortinet’s Security Awareness and Training Service, a SaaS-based solution, offers prompt and up-to-date awareness training on the latest security threats. This service enables IT, security, and compliance leaders to foster a culture of cyber-awareness, making employees more adept at recognizing and evading potential attacks. For organizations with compliance requirements, this service also aids in fulfilling regulatory and industry compliance training obligations.

2. Phishing Simulation Services

Preparing your employees to identify malicious communications is a proactive approach to defense. FortiPhish Phishing Simulation Service conducts real-world simulations, allowing organizations to test and enhance user awareness and resilience against phishing threats. It equips users with the knowledge and skills to respond effectively when they suspect a phishing attack.

3. Free Fortinet Network Security Expert (NSE) Training

The Fortinet Training Institute offers free, self-paced NSE training modules. These modules empower users to find and shield themselves from various threat types, including phishing attacks. These resources can easily complement your existing internal training programs, reinforcing crucial concepts. Furthermore, Fortinet Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) supply instructor-led training, broadening access to the NSE curriculum on a global scale.

Stay One Step Ahead of Threat Actors Through Security Awareness Programs

As technology advances, so do the tactics of cybercriminals. They persistently explore new ways to exploit these innovations for their malicious agendas. In response, both security teams and every individual within organizations must heighten their vigilance against threats.

This underscores the importance of assessing and enhancing your existing cyber-awareness programs. The goal is to equip learners and employees with the latest, most pertinent knowledge, ensuring their ability to safeguard not only themselves but also the organization’s invaluable data.

In the constantly changing sphere of cybersecurity, knowledge is your best defense.

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Fortinet FortiAP™

MEC Digital — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 02:54:46 +0000

Secure WLAN Access Points for protecting valuable assets and data

Fortinet Wireless Access Points (FortiAP) are part of Fortinet’s Wireless LAN equipment that provides secure wireless access for the entire enterprise LAN edge. Since network IT also demands more capability and reliable security from fewer components, this portfolio can help save on costs and simplify the environment.

FortiAPs are available in a variety of models, from 2×2 to 4×4, internal or external antenna, to address specific use cases. Configuration and control of these solutions can be done with Fortinet’s FortiGate Network Security Platform or the FortiLAN Cloud.

FortiAPs are Fortinet Security Fabric enabled, providing broad visibility, automated protection, and integrated threat intelligence required to protect the valuable assets and data of organizations worldwide.

Features and Benefits

Security Fabric Integration

Automated Response to
Compromised Devices

Zero-touch Deployment

Simplified Deployment
and Capacity Expansion

Scalability from 1 to 10,000 APs

Wireless Presence Analytics

Why Choose Fortinet FortiAP

Large campuses, distributed enterprises, and small businesses all have diverse WLAN architecture needs. That is why Fortinet provides a full suite of WLAN Access Points as part of their Wireless Infrastructure solution to address the unique requirements of every organization.

SonicWall Cloud App Security

MEC Digital — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 02:43:19 +0000

Comprehensive Security for Office 365, G Suite, and SaaS apps

SonicWall Cloud App Security offers high-performance security for your users and data within cloud applications. For companies that are utilizing SaaS applications, this solution can provide world-leading security and a seamless user experience.

As email has become the most popular SaaS app used, SonicWall Cloud App Security can deliver virtual in-line protection to stop malicious emails missed by the default security from reaching your inbox.

SonicWall Cloud App Security also delivers zero-day malware scanning and enforces data loss prevention (DLP) and compliance policies for data stored in SaaS apps.

Key Benefits

Why Choose SonicWall Cloud App Security?

This system extends the most complete defense-in-depth security stack for Office 365 users. It can stop targeted phishing and zero-day attacks that bypass Microsoft, Google, and Secure Email Gateway security filters.

Key Features

Browse SonicWall Security Solutions

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Fortinet OT Solutions

MEC Digital — Mon, 30 May 2022 02:46:34 +0000

Securing converged OT-IT networks with a security fabric

What is IT-OT Convergence?

Digital innovation requires operational technology systems to interact with information technology systems. OT network components like control systems, SCADA, and industrial networks are being connected to IT network components such as processors, storage, and systems management. Through this, the data collected by physical equipment and IIOT devices can be used to identify problems or increase efficiency.

OT is generally not secure, since it was originally designed with the assumption it would not be exposed to threats. The rise of remote access to OT networks by third-party vendors further expands the attack surface and creates new vulnerabilities.

Why OT Security is Critical:
3 Benefits of a Security Fabric

How Fortinet OT Security Works

The Fortinet Security Fabric covers the entire converged IT-OT network to close OT security gaps, deliver full visibility, and provide simplified management.

Fortinet FortiDDoS

MEC Digital — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:09:27 +0000

DDoS Protection Solution

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks remain a top threat to IT security and have evolved in almost every way to do what they do best: shut down access to your vital online services. Sophisticated multi-vector and multi-layer DDoS attacks use direct and reflected packets where the spoofed, randomized source IP addresses are impossible to ACL. These attacks are increasingly common as Mirai-style code has morphed into many variants and has been commercialized by providers of “stresser” sites. To combat these attacks, you need a solution that dynamically protects a large attack surface.

FortiDDoS Protection Solution defends enterprise data centers against DDoS attacks by leveraging an extensive collection of known DDoS methodologies, creating a multi-layered approach to mitigate attacks. It also analyzes the behavior of data to detect new attacks, allowing it to stop zero-day threats.

Key Features

Cato Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

MEC Digital — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 05:03:35 +0000

Protect your enterprise from cloud-born risks

The shift to cloud and adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) services, has enabled enterprises to offload the burden of managing and delivering them by themselves. It has also, however, exposed a new and particularly risky attack surface. Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solutions play a pivotal role in helping enterprises cope with these risks and fortifying their security posture.

Cato CASB Solution helps organizations cope with the perils of Shadow IT

Visibility

Assessment

Enforcement

Protection

Stand-alone CASB solutions vs. Cato's SASE Cloud

	Stand Alone CASB	Cato CASB
Onboarding	Long and complicated	Fast and simple
Inspection context breadth	Partial	Complete
Application coverage	Limited	Wide
Inline enforcement granularity	Low	High

Cato’s CASB solution is an integral service of the Cato SASE Cloud. This means enterprises using Cato can enable CASB with a mere flip of a switch. Since the enterprise network traffic is already processed by Cato’s SASE Cloud, adding the CASB functionality doesn’t require any client installations or network changes.

Browse Cato Networks Solutions

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Sonicwall Capture Advanced Threat Protection

MEC Digital — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 03:39:00 +0000

The Advanced Protection You Need, Where You Need It

For effective zero-day threat protection, organizations need solutions that include malware-analysis technologies and can detect evasive advanced threats and malware — today and tomorrow. Capture Advanced Threat Prevention (Capture ATP), was the industry’s first multi-engine sandbox that could block until verdict. This technology quickly returns an accurate verdict on suspicious files and can be used across the ecosystem of SonicWall products.

Key Benefits:

• High-security effectiveness against unknown threats

• Near real-time signature deployment protects from follow on attacks

• Reduced total cost of ownership

• Block files at the gateway until verdict

• Multiple engines process files in parallel for rapid verdicts

• SonicWall’s RTDMI engine blocks unknown mass-market malware utilizing real-time memory-based inspection techniques

Key Features:

Stop Unknown Malware and Zero-Day Threats

Blocks malware, even if it’s hiding in encryption or not behaving maliciously.

Inspect More File Types

Supports analysis for PE, DLL, PDF, MS Office docs, archives, JAR, and APK — plus multiple OSs.

Block Until Verdict

Potentially malicious files can be held at the gateway until an admin takes action.

Rapid Remediation

Files go from inspection to verdict within milliseconds, stopping follow-on attacks and ensuring a better user experience.

Browse SonicWall Security Solutions

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Cato MDR

MEC Digital — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 02:18:00 +0000

Managed Threat Detection and Response

Cato Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is an advanced security service that offers continuous threat detection and guidance on how to respond to malicious events, quickly, and effectively. Cato MDR leverages AI and ML, combined with human threat verification, to hunt, investigate, alert, reduce risk of breach, and improve security posture.

Cato MDR is built-in into Cato’s SASE platform. This means Cato MDR monitor all site, VPN, and cloud environments connected to CATO SASE Cloud, enabling users to benefit instantly from the service without having to install additional HW/SW.

Key Benefits:

1. Immediate service activation, no additional HW/SW needed

2. Dwell time reduce from 200+ days to 1-2 days!

3. Real-time alerts for confirmed threats, no false positives

4. Network-level containment and guided remediation for effective response

5. Designated security experts alongside security assessments

Key Features:

Automated threat hunting

Machine learning algorithms look for anomalies across billions of flows in Cato’s data warehouse and correlate them with threat intelligence sources and complex heuristics.

Expert threat verification

Cato security researchers review flagged endpoints and assess the validity and severity of the risk, only alerting on actual threats.

Threat containment

Verified live threats can be contained automatically by blocking C&C domains and IP addresses, or disconnecting compromised machines or users from the network.

Guided remediation

The Cato SOC advises on the risk’s threat level, recommended remediation, and follows up until the threat is eliminated.

Browse Cato Networks Solutions

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Cyber Security – MEC Networks Corporation

No Tricks, Just Treats: 5 Ways for SMBs to Safeguard Their Networks Against Cyber Haunts

Five ways to protect SMBs' network from unwelcome hauntings:

1. Don’t be afraid of the dark

2. Spin a web of network security policies

3. Avoid the zombie apocalypse. Protect against viruses.

4. Don’t let your security go ghost

5. No tricks, all treats

MEC Networks Announces Partnership with senhasegura, The Global PAM Provider

senhasegura: A Trusted Name in PAM

Safeguard Privileged Credentials

Enforce Granular Access Control

Monitor Privileged Sessions

Simplify Compliance Management

Why senhasegura Stands Out

Unmatched Security

User-Friendly Interface

Scalability and Flexibility

Unparalleled Support

Leading PAM, simply. For you.

Email Phishing is a Pervasive Phenomenon. Fortinet Suggests 3 Things to Combat It.

Phishing: The Top Weapon in Ransomware Attacks

Empower Your Workforce with Education Against Phishing

1. Security Awareness Training

2. Phishing Simulation Services

3. Free Fortinet Network Security Expert (NSE) Training

Stay One Step Ahead of Threat Actors Through Security Awareness Programs

Fortinet FortiAP™

Secure WLAN Access Points for protecting valuable assets and data

Features and Benefits

Security Fabric Integration

Automated Response to Compromised Devices

Zero-touch Deployment

Simplified Deployment and Capacity Expansion

Scalability from 1 to 10,000 APs

Wireless Presence Analytics

Why Choose Fortinet FortiAP

Featured Products

Standard FortiAPs

FortiAP Unified Threat Protection (UTP) Access Points

SonicWall Cloud App Security

Comprehensive Security for Office 365, G Suite, and SaaS apps

Key Benefits

Embrace cloud apps without fear

Comprehensive protection for Office 365 and G Suite

Secure your sanctioned SaaS apps

Discover Shadow IT

Why Choose SonicWall Cloud App Security?

Key Features

Visibility

Next-Gen Email Security

Threat Protection

Data Security

Compliance

Fortinet OT Solutions

Securing converged OT-IT networks with a security fabric

What is IT-OT Convergence?

Why OT Security is Critical: 3 Benefits of a Security Fabric

Visibility

Control

Continuous Monitoring

How Fortinet OT Security Works

Featured Product

Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

FortiSandbox

Wireless Security

Security Management and Analytics

Fortinet FortiDDoS

DDoS Protection Solution

Key Features

Machine Learning Detection

Powerful Parallel Inspection Architecture

Continuous Learning

Continuous Attack Evaluation

Advanced DNS Protection

Advanced NTP Protection

Autonomous Mitigation

Hybrid On-premises / Cloud Support

Central Manager (CM)

Fortinet Security Fabric Integration

Automated Response to
Compromised Devices

Simplified Deployment
and Capacity Expansion

Why OT Security is Critical:
3 Benefits of a Security Fabric