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SonicWall Finds 5 Trends in the Global Cyber Frontlines

MEC Updates — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 05:30:16 +0000

Mid-year Update to the 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report

Geopolitics and cybersecurity have always been intertwined. Over the past six months, the threat landscape has progressively shown this.

“The international threat landscape is now seeing an active migration that is profoundly changing the challenges not only in Europe, but the United States as well.... Cybercriminals are working harder than ever to be ahead of the cybersecurity industry, and unlike many of the businesses they target, threat actors often have no shortage of skills, motivation, expertise and funding within their organizations.”

Immanuel Chavoya, SonicWall expert on emerging threats Tweet

But in the first half of 2022, the patterns are also altering, aside from the targets.

5 Cyber Threat Landscape Trends

1. Rising Malware

Malware increased 11% globally during the first half of 2022 after following a declining trend for previous quarters. A decline in ransomware also helped slow down this progress. However, a spike in cryptojacking and spiking rates of IoT malware were more than enough to push a double-digit growth.

There are very few universally relevant cyber threat trends, and the surge in malware is one of them. However, regions that often see heavy malware activity, such as the U.S., U.K., and Germany experienced drops, indicating that these global hotspots could be starting to change.

2. Ransomware Decreases by Nearly a Quarter

Although ransomware attacks have significantly increased over the last two years, they decreased by 23% in the first half of 2022. As Russian ransomware organizations struggle to maintain their prior pace in the face of the ongoing crisis with Ukraine, this long-awaited reversal appears to be mostly the product of geopolitical circumstances.

Unfortunately, due to the greater, ongoing global dynamics, this trend is not expected to last.

“As bad actors diversify their tactics, and look to expand their attack vectors, we expect global ransomware volume to climb — not only in the next six months but in the years to come... With so much turmoil in the geopolitical landscape, cybercrime is increasingly becoming more sophisticated and varying in the threats, tools, targets, and locations.”

Bill Conner, SonicWall President and CEO Tweet

However, due to the shifting nature of ransomware, certain places are recording drastically different results than expected. While Europe had a 63% spike in attack volume, North America, which normally experiences the majority of ransomware attacks, saw a 42% decline in attack volume.

3. RTDMI Detections Increase

A 45% increase over the same time in 2021, SonicWall’s proprietary Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI) technology discovered 270,228 never-before-seen malware types in the first half of 2022.

This technology is a part of the Sonicwall Capture Advanced Threat Protection and uses machine learning to become very good at spotting new and sophisticated threats. It gets better every year as evidenced by the 2,079 percent increase in new variants discovered by RTDMI since it was first introduced in early 2018.

4. IoT Malware Goes Up by 77%

It’s hardly surprising that opportunistic hackers are increasingly turning to IoT malware attacks as more and more IoT devices come online. IoT malware volume has increased 77% to 57 million since the start of the year, which is more than at any other time since SonicWall started keeping track of these attacks and almost as many as were discovered in 2021 as a whole.

5. Encrypted Threats Show Triple-Digit Growth

Threats that are encrypted increased 132% in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period last year. Based on an exceptionally high number of attacks in Q2, which spiked in May to become the second-highest month for encrypted threat volume ever recorded by SonicWall, this was the case.

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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

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SonicWall: Be Cyber Smart in These 4 Practical Ways

MEC Updates — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:56:19 +0000

You are not paranoid; cyber attackers are trying to breach your security and exploit your data.

The proof is in the numbers. According to the popular Mid-Year Update for the 2021 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, ransomware attacks rose to 304.6 million in 2020, up 62% over 2019. Some of the increase occurred as more of the U.S. workforce started working remotely due to the pandemic. There were also 226.3 million ransomware attacks through May of 2021, up 116% year to date over last year.

Some people may disregard the recommendation and throw caution to the wind. If they’re fortunate, it’ll be an insignificant inconvenience, and their anti-virus software will stop the malware before it can cause serious damage. However, if they’re among the growing thousands of victims each year, hackers will force them to pay a ransom for their precious data or steal their identity or worse. And you wonder, what could be worse?

One hack of a single individual can usher a deluge of hacks and much larger problems. For instance, hackers can crack into your personal computer without you knowing it, add malware to one of your devices that unloads wherever you go, and circumvent firewalls and other security, directly into your home network, friend’s house, the library, and your workplace.

We all could be a little more mindful. A “cybersecure mindset” protects you, your devices, and your data and everywhere you connect your devices. So, when we say, “Be Cyber Smart and Lock It Down,” what we mean is taking personal responsibility for not only how you connect but also actions you take to maintain and enhance your security.

4 Ways to Be Cyber Smart

1. PROTECT yourself.

Start with passwords: lockdown your devices, software, and information with strong passwords that protect you from becoming an easy target.

There are some fundamental rules for good passwords. The first is the length – a minimum of 12 characters, with a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters. You should also have numbers and symbols (ex: @ # $). Check with your platform; they may have specific requirements like the length and number, and type of symbols. One very important rule: ensure that your password is unique. Avoid obvious hooks, like your address, recognizable names, dates, and phone numbers. Avoid any information that someone may learn by reading your social media profiles. The second is: USE YOUR PASSWORDS and turn on two-step verification wherever you can.

2. PROTECT your personal identification.

Personal privacy is a question of choice. For the sake of convenience, we’d like to have access to certain items (shopping and health apps, for instance).

However, being cyber smart entails that the privacy settings you choose for your devices and apps may expose you to hacking. Knowing how hackers attack devices and steal information from open apps is part of being “smart” about cybersecurity. According to security experts, you should tweak your privacy settings based on the tasks you need to complete. Change your privacy settings, for example, when the circumstances change, such as when traveling or using public networks (e.g., coffee shop Wi-Fi, more on that later).

3. PROTECT your data.

Your data (pictures, reports, accounting, proprietary documents) are perhaps your most vulnerable assets. We should also take extra precautions with our social security numbers, bank account information, and credit card numbers. And when we leave data in open apps (without a password) or send it in unencrypted emails, all of that is in danger. Please keep it safe and secure by LOCKING IT DOWN! Also, keep an eye out for phishing scams. Hackers will use all techniques at their disposal to get access to your devices and network. They may impersonate organizations you trust, as well as friends, family members, coworkers, and even your boss. Phishing messages can be sent via email or text messaging. Some of these communications appear to be genuine.

4. PROTECT your devices.

Public Wi-Fi hotspots are unsafe. Unfortunately, public hotspots in your favorite coffee shop, restaurants, shopping malls, libraries, and, notably, airports are all very vulnerable to attacks. Hackers can scan unencrypted data streams such as passwords and account information that you send and receive with minimal knowledge and equipment. Scammers went even further a few years ago, creating intricate counterfeit Wi-Fi networks with names and branding marks identical to what customers expect. There are, however, a few things you may do to exercise being cyber smart before going online:

Be sure to turn off the Wi-Fi auto-connect feature on your devices. Turn it on only when you need it and be careful in selecting the networks you want to use.
Utilize secure wireless networks that contain WPA or WPA2 password protection. Sadly, these are not usually found in places like the local coffee shop or the airport, so they may be challenging to locate.
Consider installing mobile security software with malware and virus detection for your devices. You may also install a VPN (a virtual private network) that encrypts your data stream even if the Wi-Fi network does not.

SonicWall joined the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to help raise awareness on how we can all do better to prevent hacks. That means embracing a ‘cybersecure mindset’ to protect our homes, communities, and our workplaces.

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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.

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Sonicwall Email Security

MEC Digital — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:02:28 +0000

What your next-gen email security needs to stop advanced threats

CRITICAL CAPABILITIES OF NEXT-GEN EMAIL SECURITY

Next-gen email security solutions must provide:

A comprehensive multi-layer protection for email communications
Sandboxing and quarantining of any unknown files
Dynamic reputation-based blacklisting
Advanced content analysis and pattern recognition
Strong encryption and DLP for compliance & regulatory requirements

SECURE THE NO. 1 THREAT VECTOR USING

MULTI-LAYERED, CLOUD-BASED EMAIL SECURITY

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Sonicwall TZ Series

MEC Digital — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:49:23 +0000

Deliver enterprise-class security without the enterprise-grade complexity

SonicWall TZ firewalls deliver enterprise-grade protection without the cost or complexity.

Protect your small business or branch location from intrusion, malware, and ransomware, with an easy-to-use, integrated security solution designed specifically for your needs.

Detect sophisticated threats, including encrypted attacks, with advanced networking and security features, like the multi-engine Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) cloud-based sandbox service with patent-pending Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI). With optional features like PoE/PoE+ support and 802.11ac Wi-Fi, create a unified security solution for wired and wireless networks.

SonicWall Gen7 TZ Series Does It Better

First desktop firewall to deliver multi-gigabit malware and ransomware protection

Branch capabilities and a redesigned cloud-native management console.

First SonicWall desktop firewall to deliver redundant power.

Groundbreaking performance in desktop firewall

Share license across HA unit at no extra cost

Side Channel attack protection

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SonicWall Brings Home Six Awards from Network PG

MEC Digital — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 20:45:11 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the SVUS Awards (Silicon Valley United States), organizers of the world’s premier business and innovation award programs, bestowed SonicWall with 6 trophies in the 15th Annual Network Products Guide IT World Awards 2020!

Awards received by SonicWall include:

Grand Trophy Winner
Gold Trophy in the Enterprise Network Firewalls Division – SonicWall NSsp 15700
Gold Trophy in the Unified or Integrated Security Division – SonicOSX 7
Silver Trophy in the Firewalls Division – TZ570/670
Bronze Trophy in the Information Security and Risk Management Division – SonicWall Network and Security Manager
Gold Trophy in the Security Hardware Division – SonicWall Capture and Security Appliance 1000

The IT World Awards are industry recognitions honoring achievements of the world’s best in organizational performance, products, services, technologies, successful deployments, product management, and customer satisfaction.

SonicWall took home the awards for their revolutionary architecture designed to enable contemporary features necessary for modern enterprises with excellent support, allowing customers to provide tenants with dedicated resources to enable support for unique configurations.

Network Products Guide was able to review the benefits that SonicWall technologies bring to compliance-sensitive customers and those who need additional tools to eliminate threats.

About SonicWall

SonicWall delivers Boundless Cybersecurity for the hyper-distributed era in a working reality where everyone is remote, mobile, and not secure. SonicWall safeguards organizations mobilizing for their new business normal with seamless protection that stops the most evasive cyberattacks across boundless exposure points and increasingly remote, mobile, and cloud-enabled workforces.

Learn more about our current SonicWall offerings, connect with us.

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Sonicwall Capture Client powered by SentinelOne

MEC Digital — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:11:44 +0000

Effective, Holistics, and Consumable Next-Generation Endpoint Protection Solution

Benefits of Capture Client

– Independent cloud-based management

– Synergizes with SonicWall firewalls

– Security policy enforcement

– DPI-SSL certificate management

– Continuous behavioral monitoring

– Highly accurate determinations achieved through machine learning

– Multiple layered heuristic-based techniques

– Unique rollback capabilities

Offerings and Platform Support

The SonicWall Capture Client is available in two offerings:

SonicWall Capture Client Basic

delivers all SonicWall next-generation malware protection and remediation features, along with DPI-SSL support capabilities.

SonicWall Capture Client Advanced

delivers everything listed above for Basic, plus Advanced rollback capabilities and Capture ATP integrations.

Both offerings are available for Windows 7 and higher, as well as for Mac OSX.

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Sonicwall SonicOS 7

MEC Digital — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:25:08 +0000

Scale Faster, Protect More, and Regain Control

What’s New in SonicOS7

Multi-instance Support

SonicOS 7’s multi-instance support for NSsp enterprise firewalls allows multiple independent firewall instances to run on the same hardware, achieving multi-tenancy and maximizing operation simplicity.

Advanced Protection Against Encrypted Threats

TLS 1.3 decryption detects threats hiding in encrypted traffic without sacrificing performance.

Easy, Zero-Touch Deployment

The new SonicExpress Mobile App offers true zero-touch deployment, eliminating truck rolls, saving money, and easing the deployment of golden configs at branch locations.

Simplified Integrations

New Rest APIS allows SonicWall firewalls to be integrated with other security solutions, including hybrid policy orchestrators, SIEM, RMM, NAC, SOAR, and more.

Simplify Oversight with a Modern User Interface

Enhanced Dashboards

Network and threat dashboards provide a top-level summary of the overall health of the appliance and threat insights based on what the firewall sees in your network.

Security Rule Optimization

SonicOS 7 includes new features such as visibility in custom rules and hit counts, shadow rule detection, and rule optimization to eliminate misconfigurations.

Security Rule Visualization

To reduce user’s cognitive load, SonicOS 7 features rule visualization that offers quick and intuitive insights into the type of traffic the rule is for, what it does from a security inspection perspective, and what traffic is hitting it.

Unified Improved Visibility

SonicOS 7 provides a topology view of your firewall and the endpoints behind it – including dashboards that detail the traffic passing through your firewalls, who is responsible for it, and what threats it contains.

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Sonicwall Capture Client

MEC Digital — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 23:04:29 +0000

Manage and Safeguard Endpoint Devices

SonicWall Capture Client is a unified client platform that delivers multiple endpoint protection capabilities, including next-generation malware protection and application vulnerability intelligence.

It leverages cloud sandbox file testing, comprehensive reporting, and enforcement for endpoint protection. Additionally, provide consistent assurance of client security, with easy-to-use and actionable intelligence and reporting.

How it Works

1. Pre-execution

Dynamic whitelisting/blacklisting and static protection

2. On Execution

Dynamic whitelisting/blacklisting and static protection

3. Post-execution

Rollback, quarantine, and auto immunize

The Solution

Endpoint Visibility

Endpoint Management

Advanced Threat Protection

Vulnerable Applications Security

Malicious Web Act. Terminate

Encrypted Traffic Inspection

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Sonicwall Philippines – MEC Networks Corporation

SonicWall Finds 5 Trends in the Global Cyber Frontlines

Mid-year Update to the 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report

5 Cyber Threat Landscape Trends

1. Rising Malware

2. Ransomware Decreases by Nearly a Quarter

3. RTDMI Detections Increase

4. IoT Malware Goes Up by 77%

5. Encrypted Threats Show Triple-Digit Growth

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

SonicWall: Be Cyber Smart in These 4 Practical Ways

4 Ways to Be Cyber Smart

1. PROTECT yourself.

2. PROTECT your personal identification.

3. PROTECT your data.

4. PROTECT your devices.

Sonicwall Capture Advanced Threat Protection

The Advanced Protection You Need, Where You Need It

Key Benefits:

Key Features:

Stop Unknown Malware and Zero-Day Threats

Inspect More File Types

Block Until Verdict

Rapid Remediation

Sonicwall Email Security

What your next-gen email security needs to stop advanced threats

CRITICAL CAPABILITIES OF NEXT-GEN EMAIL SECURITY

Next-gen email security solutions must provide:

SECURE THE NO. 1 THREAT VECTOR USING

MULTI-LAYERED, CLOUD-BASED EMAIL SECURITY

STOP ADVANCED THREATS BEFORE THEY REACH YOUR INBOX

GAIN COMPREHENSIVE INBOUND AND OUTBOUND PROTECTION

PROVIDE ADVANCED EMAIL THREAT PROTECTION FOR OFFICE 365 AND G SUITE

MINIMIZE BUSINESS IMPACT DURING PLANNED AND UNPLANNED OUTAGES TO YOUR EMAIL

Sonicwall TZ Series

Deliver enterprise-class security without the enterprise-grade complexity

SonicWall TZ firewalls deliver enterprise-grade protection without the cost or complexity.

Integrated Security Solution

SD-WAN and Zero-Touch Deployment Capabilities

SSL/TLS Decryption and Inspection

Deep Memory Inspection

Superior Performance and Features

Single-pane-of-glass’ Management & Reporting

With Zero-Touch Deployment and simplified centralized management, installation and operation are easy.

SonicWall Gen7 TZ Series Does It Better

SonicWall Brings Home Six Awards from Network PG

Awards received by SonicWall include:

About SonicWall

Sonicwall Capture Client powered by SentinelOne

Effective, Holistics, and Consumable Next-Generation Endpoint Protection Solution

Benefits of Capture Client

Offerings and Platform Support

SonicWall Capture Client Basic

SonicWall Capture Client Advanced

Sonicwall SonicOS 7

Scale Faster, Protect More, and Regain Control

What’s New in SonicOS7

Multi-instance Support

Advanced Protection Against Encrypted Threats

Easy, Zero-Touch Deployment

Simplified Integrations

Simplify Oversight with a Modern User Interface

Enhanced Dashboards

Security Rule Optimization

Security Rule Visualization

Unified Improved Visibility

Sonicwall Capture Client