F5 Labs

F5 Labs' Preston Hogue writes for SecurityWeek, tracing the full extent of your digital footprint in the era of big data breaches.

F5 Labs' David Warburton writes for Venafi, explaining one of the key strategies for improving the use of OCSP for certificate revocation.

We surveyed infosec professionals from organizations with at least 5,000 employees to investigate the qualitative differences in running a security program at scale. We also distill 5 principles you can use to have a better chance at success.

F5 Labs' David Warburton writes for Venafi, discussing the different methods for checking a certificate's status, and their relative benefits.

Expect a breach If you have basic, vendor default SSH credentials active on any system.

Threat actors wasted no time jumping on this new exploit to launch new campaigns for reconnaissance, uploading back doors, and deploying variants of the Mirai botnet.

First detected in May 2018, DanaBot is a fraud trojan that has since shifted its targets from banks in Australia to banks in Europe, as well as global email providers such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo for the holiday phishing season.

No CISO is an island. The success of CISOs hinges on their ability to listen, build consensus, and communicate in a wide range of registers.

As it nears its exit from the EU, the UK faces tough skills, staff, and regulatory challenges when it comes to protecting its critical national infrastructure.

F5 threat intelligence reports attackers are still doing DNS water torture DDoS, DNS reflection DDoS, expired domain takeover, and using DNS requests for covert channels.

F5 Labs' Ray Pompon writes for Help Net Security, demonstrating how even with accepted risks you can still make things worse - or better - for yourself.

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are a growing attack surface, offering predators unprecedented access to large data stores. As serverless, mobile, and online platforms grow, API attacks will surely rise.

F5 Labs' Preston Hogue writes for SecurityWeek, looking at how digital transformation has changed even how we confirm a Supreme Court Justice.

As more and more IoT devices pervade corporate environments, it’s imperative that organizations minimize the very real threat these devices pose.

F5 Labs' Preston Hogue writes for Security Week, outlining how a hack is just the first step to something worse.

Phishing attack? Absolutely. Success? Likely. Risk of incident? High. Breach costs? About $6.5 million.

F5 Labs' Ray Pompon writes for Help Net Security, discussing why establishing "storage encryption" is not the cure-all you might think.

No single defense is perfect, but with the right set of diverse, overlapping controls, most threats can be rebuffed.

F5 Labs' Mike Convertino writes for Dark Reading, discussing the big trends CISOs are dealing with across the industry.

Managing cybersecurity and protecting the business should be a team effort, so don’t let your CISO become the easy scapegoat when things go wrong.