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FortiGuard Labs recently captured a fresh phishing campaign in which a Microsoft Excel document attached to a spam email downloaded and executed several pieces of VBscript code. This malware is used to hijack bitcoin address information and deliver a new variant of Agent Tesla onto the victim’s device. 

Many customers need strategic counsel and guidance now more than ever to navigate through new challenges as a result of the current reality. Given this, Fortinet channel partners can reach out to their customers to make sure they have the tools and resources they need to maintain business and operational continuity. In many circumstances, secure remote access built around a remote access VPN solution is just the start. Our partners’ expertise is critical in helping customers build an effective, quick-turn solution at little to no cost that can also be easily augmented over the next few weeks and months as they settle into this new environment. 

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Jan 19, 2021

As organizations migrate some of their applications, workloads and data to the cloud, ensuring the appropriate security and controls are in place remains top of mind. To protect these workloads in both virtualized data centers and cloud infrastructures, customers rely on FortiGate-VM NGFW. And now FortiGate-VM interoperates and integrates with VMware’s NSX-T Data Center 3.1 release.

To help organizations better secure this growing attack surface, Fortinet today announced that its Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solution, FortiCASB, will now provide protection for new applications and platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cisco Webex Teams, Microsoft Yammer, and ServiceNow. Extending FortiCASB’s security capabilities provides visibility into all stored data, enables the monitoring of user behavior and usage patterns, prevents malware propagation from cloud services, addresses and protects against sensitive data loss, and maintains compliance in the cloud by addressing a variety of compliance regulations, including SOX, GDPR, PCI, HIPAA, NIST, and ISO27001—all through a centralized dashboard.

One of the biggest challenges for organizations adopting SD-WAN is that issues like provisioning, meshed VPN, and the complexities of managing multiple network edges can quickly become more of an IT burden than originally anticipated. For example, workflows such as cloud connectivity or tying security enforcement to specific connections can be time-consuming, especially when they need continuous management and configuration adjustments.

Customer Perspectives

Today’s networks are distributed across so many devices and environments, many of them temporary and all of them in a constant state of flux, that the notion of a perimeter has been almost completely abandoned. This transition has largely been the result of an application-based business model. Users—both employees and consumers—require immediate and reliable access to critical applications and streaming services at any time, from any location, on any device.