This week top-tier security students from across the Mid-Atlantic region descended upon Baltimore for the annual Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (MACCDC). We’re big supporters of this competition and send several volunteers from our security ranks every year. Our security engineers use the event as an opportunity to recruit potential employees and to help students [...]
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New DDoS White Paper: Think You’re Protected from DDoS Attacks? Better Think Again.
Neustar recently asked UBM Tech to survey DDoS victims to learn which types of protection work—and which don’t. You can see the full results in our new white paper, “The State of DDoS Protection.” It’s a tale of organizations believing their protection strategy was adequate, when in reality their strategy was wishful thinking. In addition [...]
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December stARs: Neustar SiteProtect, Learning from DDoS attacks on Banks
Earlier this fall, there were a number of large-scale DDoS attacks on major banking institutions. As the industry attempts to move forward, we should reflect on the lessons learned from these infiltrations. More importantly, what next steps can we take to better protect ourselves? Before we get into the helpful features of Neustar’s DDoS protection [...]
Cybersecurity Month Trivia
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an effort to encourage everyone to protect themselves, their networks, and our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure. We all have a shared responsibility to learn more and teach others about how to stay safer and more secure online. We’re doing out part to spread the word about [...]
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Arrrrrrgh! The Real Story of How an IT Manager Took on Blackbeard – and Won!
Did you know that today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day? True story. Every year on September 19, fans of the swashbuckling life walk around saying “Avast ye scurvy knaves!” and “Arrrrrrgh!” But for one unlucky company, every day for several months was Talk Like a Pirate Day—and no one there was laughing. Their [...]
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Neustar Weekly Reading: Intelligent Cloud; Trends in DDoS Attacks; Hacking
Neustar’s Weekly Reading provides a roundup of the headlines that got our attention this week–from both inside the company and out. CloudTimes Interviews Jean Foster at Mobile World Congress [CloudTimes] – CloudTimes.org talks to our own Jean Foster about what’s new in Neustar’s cloud services. Trends and Truths in DDoS Attacks [InfoSecurity Magazine] – A [...]
Contingency Planning: Busted Brackets or DDOS Attacks
Today marks the beginning of March Madness, that mythical three-week period each spring when the college basketball fan in your life disappears only to spend equal amounts of time alternating between actually watching the games on every available channel or mobile device and cursing at the teams who’ve blown his or her bracket totally apart. [...]
Neustar Weekly Reading: Big Data; Mobile Tips for Marketers; Mobile Search
Neustar’s Weekly Reading provides a roundup of the headlines that got our attention this week–from both inside the company and out. The Next Big UI Challenge is Making Data Human [GigaOm] – IBM and Microsoft are just two companies who are experimenting with rendering big data into human scale. Five Mobile Tips for Marketers, Who [...]
DDoS Attacks: It's not an If, It's a When – Are You Prepared?
When it comes to DDoS attacks – it’s no longer an IF, it’s a WHEN. And denying the fact that your company is vulnerable to attacks is only going to hurt your company in the long run. Why? Because DDoS and other cyber attacks are increasing in number – according to Forrester’s “The Trends and [...]
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Neustar Defends Against Holiday DDoS Attack
On December 23, Neustar successfully defended against a DDoS attack. In the world of DNS, Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attacks are a fact of life and a major reason our customers have chosen UltraDNS. They know they are better off with our patented technology, systems, expertise, processes, and 7/24 operations than they could do themselves. In a recent CIO Magazine article written by Amir Shahmiri, Neustar VP of Network Engineering and Operations, he provided some best practices…
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