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Network Runners, Inc. will be exhibiting at the 13th Annual CDCA Defense Summit in Charleston on Dec. 11-12, 2019 and highlighting BlackRidge’s zero trust approach to cyber defense.

At Cybertech, Bill Joll, our head of worldwide sales, speaks on "Zero Trust Model Considerations for Smart Cities."

This blog summarizes our work to integrate and verify a zero trust architecture using a heterogenous set of OEM applications, products, services, and topologies.

We are delighted that BlackRidge has been selected as a distinguished vendor in the 2020 TAG Cyber Security Annual. This is the third year that we have been selected as a distinguished vendor that also includes an interview of our CTO John Hayes.

For the 4th consecutive year we are exhibiting at UNC Charlotte and we area also speaking on Smart Cities and Industrial IoT security.

The scourge of ransomware is not new, but recent months have seen a spate of fresh attacks. Implementing microsegmentation to achieve a zero trust network environment will help defeat these attacks.

As an Elite sponsor for PTC LiveWorx19, we will demonstrate how to segment and secure IT and OT for factory automation with a zero-trust approach to legacy and future architectures in booth #224 in the Xtropolis exhibit hall.

Participating companies with IIoT World include TAG Cyber, BlackRidge and National Instruments.

We were delighted to exhibit at our first RSA Conference, a premier venue for any cutting-edge security company.

At CES 2019 our booth in the IoT Infrastructure Pavilion was one of the busiest with people drawn to our new TAC-ID product announcement to learn how to secure their IoT infrastructure.

Our top six predictions for 2019, based on the developments and trends that we’re watching closely at BlackRidge. We know we’ll see new forms of attack, but also new developments in defense.

We have exciting news to share this holiday season - we partnered with Santa to secure the critical data that is vital to the North Pole operations and to protect his Nice List.

Catch up with Network Runners and BlackRidge Technolgoy as we exhibit and speak at the 12th Annual CDCA Defense Summit in Charleston, SC, Dec. 5-6, 2018.

The best solution is for firms to segment and segregate their monitoring, communication and control networks using an identity-based approach to control network communications.

Cisco announced BlackRidge as a new pxGrid solution partner. Learn how BlackRidge is collaborating with Cisco Systems® to extend security perimeters to multi-cloud, IoT and other network environments.

How well informed are you on the current and potential threats that exist to government, critical infrastructure and IoT devices? Learn from an outstanding industry panel their advocacies to protect and defend them while creating more resilient systems.

Network infrastructure devices provide ideal targets for sophisticated attackers as evidenced by the infiltration of our critical infrastructure. Learn about DHS security tips for securing network devices and a high assurance approach to network security.

A new adaptive approach to security can directly enable more effective security capabilities, but also enable greater operational and financial value in supporting digital health initiatives that can improve patient care. 

Guest blog from SafeLogic to share some background on the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 program and why we’re so excited about BlackRIdge achieving FIPS 140-2 validation.

Digital health reduces many of the inefficiencies in healthcare delivery, it improves access to healthcare information and services, increases the quality of delivery, and allows much more personalized application of healthcare to patients

The Telecom Council hosted a great and fun conference that provided an excellent look at where things may go for 2018, including a contest for voting on 2018 predictions.

Break up that monolithic network (if only virtually) and implement a network segmentation solution. That’s your best hope to inhibit the spread of malware that’s heading your way.

Transactions that have not been committed to the blockchain are vulnerable to several types of attack. This blog examines some identity and time attack vectors in blockchains.

As technical advancements continue to drive the healthcare industry forward, cyber security must be an integral part of every healthcare organization’s operational and customer strategy.

U.S. elections today are a composite of three separate systems: voter registration, vote casting, and vote canvassing (counting and reporting). It’s the third one -- vote canvassing – that has me the most worried.

As the Industrial Internet of Things proliferates and converges with IT, CSOs and CIOs need to assess the risks with their growing attack surface. This blog reviews common attack types and how to block or defend against them.

There has long been a debate in cyber security with respect to strategy - detect or defend? Organizations must adopt new cyber defense technologies using identity and authentication ubiquitously across network, session and application layers.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has arrived for consumers and it is geared to measure and monitor everything in our daily lives. The equivalent capability for business is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and it is transformational and needs to be secured.

Digital Transformation is enabling new business models and driving change in every facet of business. In this blog we explore the business security risks and a practical solution to enable trust models based on isolation of services and segmenting networks.

Cyber criminals look for the easiest score with the most reward and they are increasingly focusing on SMBs. We will review the key threats you face and what “cyber defenses” you can use to lessen these risks and not be too easy of a target.

Guest blog by Edward Amoroso, CEO of TAG Cyber: Anyone who takes a moment to consider the TCP handshake knows that authentication cannot occur until a session is fully established.

The Internet of Things (IoT) introduces new cyber-attack vectors. Learn about how important new cyber defense technologies will be to securing the Industrial IoT and blockchains.

Starting a new year it is always interesting to read the industry experts predictions. One such article was published by TechRepublic who asked cybersecurity experts for their predictions...

Cyber-attacks are a daily occurrence and the attacks as a whole are unrelenting. Day after day, hour after hour, our IT systems, both enterprise and personal, are probed, scanned and attacked...

The first wave was about building the Internet, the second about building services and connecting devices. The third wave is all about connecting everything and stopping the bad guys. So what does this mean for security?

Every day we are reminded how vulnerable our information systems are to cyber-attacks. Massive data breaches have become routine and recent notable cases include the legal, banking, government, industrial, media and healthcare industries.

When it comes to the cloud there are too many things you have to trust in your Cloud Services Provider to do. Security should not be one of these leaps of faith that you have to take.

Why the BlackRidge App for Splunk? A good side effect of having BlackRidge in place is that we can detect unauthorized access attempts at the earliest possible time, on the first packet of TCP connection request.

You already know about our ability to provide identity-based network security that stops cyber-attacks and protects against insider threats at the earliest possible time… What is new is that we’ve moved our solution to IBM z Systems™ mainframes.

Network segmentation is a best practice that is increasingly impractical to implement and maintain in large corporate environments. A new approach to segmentation is to apply identity-based access controls at the network transport layer to dynamically segment networks by blocking or allowing network connections.

Customers are demanding the ability to implement networking in software-based architectures, however, the infrastructure to implement NFV is still in its infancy. Ciena and BlackRidge are on the cutting edge of enabling this.

You’ve all heard the expression technology moves at the speed of light.  Technology deployment, however, moves more at a super snail’s pace.

Most people in the security community run their honeypots totally exposed to the Internet. At Marist we've turned that around and decided to see what happens to a honeypot that's protected by BlackRidge.

BlackRidge addresses key aspects of an attack chain, from stopping scanning and reconnaissance to preventing unauthorized access to systems. First packet authentication of network sessions enables identity attribution prior to allowing access to network resources, providing unique and timely data to SIEM and analytic systems.

So what is up with BlackRidge and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)? We recently participated in the announcement of the Ciena Agility Matrix NFV solution for service providers and their enterprise customers.

Why are computer systems being attacked? Because the attackers believe that their attacks will succeed and succeed with little risk of retribution. This is the current dynamic. From a strategy perspective, it often looks like the attackers have the upper hand

Legend has it that 19th century laws in the midwest stipulated that if two trains arrived simultaneously at a crossing on intersecting tracks, neither should proceed until the other had gone ahead.

We announced the success of our 100G Gateway demonstration done in in an independent, third party lab, the CTE Lab at the Quality Technical Services (QTS) facility in Sandston, VA., externally monitored by QTS and i2 Sentinel Associates.

Despite best efforts to secure and maintain trust on increasingly perimeter-less networks, it is difficult to maintain across network borders, especially in cloud environments, nor can it be sufficiently established with all the various devices accessing these services. These conditions and factors all contribute to the increased complexity and expense of being able to quantify and assure an acceptable level of business risk.

While working within the security community, we have learned that the universe of security can be described by certain laws, much as the physical universe is described by certain absolute statements. One of the classic articles of computer security came from Microsoft in an era when security was not their strong suit.

We are occasionally asked if BlackRidge Transport Access Control isn’t just another form of port knocking. While both TAC and port knocking provide forms of authentication before allowing network packets to proceed, the similarities end there. Continue reading to learn more.

A recent Dark Reading article conceptualized ‘Is Identity the new Perimeter? BlackRidge agrees with the premise of the perimeter-less enterprise, and with using strong identity to establish trust. To take the argument further, trust needs to be established end-to-end, starting with a device, and be inclusive of all of the underlying resources being accessed and used.