White Papers

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Drives Pageviews with Cloudflare Performance

With the goal of becoming an international university XJTLU needed to ensure that their website was high performing and available for users anywhere in the world. However, with infrastructure focused on campus, access to XJTLU's site was intermittent and slow for off campus users. This poor performance was magnified...

Keep Your Web Properties Efficient, Available, and Secure for a Better e-Learning Experience

Students are increasingly turning to online universities as part of their educational experience. To keep students engaged, these platforms must provide positive user experiences, be consistently available, and remain secure. Cloudflare provides a scalable, easy-to-use, unified product stack to deliver security,...

Udacity's Challenges: Tapping Into the Rapidly Growing Education Market in China

Udacity is an online education company focused on making entry-level tech jobs more accessible through "Nanodegree" educational programs. Students from hundreds of different countries have gone through Udacity's programs, and some have been hired by top tech companies including Google, Amazon, and Facebook....

Inside the Sophos 2020 Threat Report

The Sophos 2020 Threat Report is out, and among the key findings: Ransomware attackers continue to leverage automated active attacks that can evade security controls and disable backups to do maximum damage in minimal time. John Shier of Sophos analyzes the trends that are most likely to shape the 2020 cybersecurity...

Firewalls vs SBCs (Session Boarder Control) White Paper

Companies of all sizes are implementing VoIP solutions to better support globalized business and mobile workforces. VoIP adoption isn't showing any signs of slowing down, but implementation and management aren't without challenges. Traditional telephony infrastructures were subject to call diverting, rerouting, and...

TDOSProtect Brochure | Stopping Floods of Malicious Calls

How do you know if you are protecting your real-time communication networks from unwanted calls coming in that appear to be valid, but in fact they are malicious attempts to tie up communication applications such as IVRs or PBX trunks with long call duration times? Telephone Denial-of-Service (TDoS) attacks are...

FraudProtect Brochure | Detection and Mitigation of Fraud Attacks

Unified Communications fraud continues to cost carriers and enterprises tens of billions of dollars per year. Bad actors typically commit telecom fraud for financial gains. Bad actors often cover a broad set of call scenarios - from IP-PBX hacking, to subscription fraud, to Wangiri (one ring and cut) Built for...

A User-Centric Approach to Preventing Threats Beyond Account Takeover

Securing user accounts from both bots and human attackers has become one of the most fundamental challenges of delivering modern applications and services. Attackers continuously develop ever more sophisticated techniques for taking over user accounts. Aggressive security policies lead to false positives and...

Unwrapping Holiday Fraud: Insights to Protect Your Business & Drive eCommerce Revenue

To maximize success, eCommerce merchants need to be familiar with the unique shopping behavior and fraud trends of the holiday season. We've identified six key 'sub-seasons' and insights pertaining to geographies, channels and shipping methods - to give actionable tips to ensure a safe and profitable season. This...

Sophos Launches Managed Threat Response

With all of the tools deployed for endpoint detection and response, enterprises today are often overwhelmed by threat intelligence, says J.J. Thompson of Sophos. To alleviate "analysis paralysis," Sophos has launched its Managed Threat Response service. Download this eBook to learn more about: The evolution of...

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Security at the Speed of Your Network

Need to choose between security and performance? Enable security tools to work more efficiently across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Deploy a diverse set of solutions as a centralized security tool farm. You can secure more data on faster networks without compromise between security, performance and...

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ESG Brief: The Importance of a Common Distributed Data Services Layer

ESG outlines how improving visibility across distributed computing environments doesn't equate with an increase in staff or tools. Read the ESG research brief and learn how visibility in a distributed network acts as the flash point that generates a host of benefits to operations teams. A common distributed data...

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A Look Inside Financially Motivated Attacks and the Active FIN8 Threat Group

As the security industry continues to see a rise in breaches associated with for-profit groups, it is more important than ever to understand the motives, objectives and operations behind these threat actors. Take a look inside these financially motivated attacks in the newest cyber threat report from Gigamon Applied...

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The Surprising Ways that Inline Bypass Protects Business Operations

Better network uptime? Increased network speeds and data volumes require solutions that optimize performance and security. With inline bypass you select which mode tools operate in, so you can make intelligent decisions. A critical component of next-generation network packet brokers, inline bypass means just that:...

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EMA: Understanding the Value of Application Aware Network Operations

Application-level visibility is a must-have to ensure service quality, end-user experience and performance as well as to reduce security risk. Download the EMA report, "Understanding the Value of Application-Aware Network Operations" to learn more about the benefits of true application visibility needed for...