Join Cloudflare in an hour-long discussion focusing on the shift away from VPN solutions and accelerating zero-trust adoption. 

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers across enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people come to Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with network solutions provider Cloudflare. Join Senior Zero-Trust Product Expert Michael Keane and Network Security Analyst John Grady as they examine the consensus from a recent survey and input their own thoughts on the biggest workforce risks related to internal system access, how agentless deployments can accelerate Zero-Trust adoption, which app types and user groups to prioritize offloading from VPNs first, and project focuses and time spent across initial rollout, expansion, and advancement phases.

Featured Speakers:

Michael Keane

Senior Zero-Trust Product Expert

John Grady

Network Security Analyst

About Cloudflare:

Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy for web traffic. It supports web protocols, including SPDY, HTTP/2, and QUIC, and supports HTTP/2 Server Push. Since at least 2017, Cloudflare has been using a wall of lava lamps in their San Francisco headquarters as a source of randomness for encryption keys, alongside double pendulums in its London offices and a Geiger counter in its Singapore offices. As of 2024, Cloudflare was providing paid services to over 162,000 customers.

FAQ

• What: VPN Replacement Phases: Learn Others’ Real-World Approaches
• When: Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 09:00am Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details)

Register for Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Cloudflare FREE

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Broadcom is an hour-long discussion and software demo focusing on key challenges and best practices for Network Observability.

What is a Solution Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers across enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people come to Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

With the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review’s team has again partnered with Broadcom, a leader in cybersecurity and network monitoring solutions. Join Alec Pinkham, Product Marketing Manager for AppNeta by Broadcom, for a look into the best practices of monitoring and observability for the end-to-end network delivery paths that your business relies on. This will include a demo of how to isolate where issues are degrading performance by isolating the error domain for problems down to the network hop.

Speaker

Alec Pinkham is a Product Marketing Manager for the AppNeta solution at Broadcom. He spent seven years with AppNeta in the Application and Network Performance Monitoring space before joining Broadcom. Prior to AppNeta, his background was in software product management in HMI/SCADA solutions for industrial automation as well as mechanical engineering for computer drafting and passive stormwater filtration systems.

About Broadcom

AppNeta by Broadcom allows IT teams to monitor end-user experience across their cloud, network, and applications. The vendor delivers visibility into business-critical applications and networks as experienced from remote offices. Its platform works on a four-dimensional monitoring system that examines network paths, network packets, web applications, and network flows. AppNeta’s APM technology has 2,000 built-in applications as part of its monitoring solution and the ability to add custom application definitions as needed. Combining forces, AppNeta brings a focus on the end-user perspective of app and network performance to the existing DX NetOps solution to provide unparalleled visibility and monitoring for modern enterprises.

FAQ

• What: “Network Observability Best Practices: From Site to Multi-Cloud” — A Solution Spotlight Event with Broadcom
• When: Thursday, June 13th, 2024, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details)

Register for Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Broadcom FREE

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Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series is a collection of contributed articles written by thought leaders in enterprise software categories. Bob Maley of Black Kite walks us through what it takes to mitigate threats with third-party incident response.

There was a time when phishing and business email compromise dominated headlines, but today there is a much more significant threat to companies: zero-day vulnerabilities. Because supply chains have become inextricably linked through software, a single vendor being compromised can have a ripple effect impacting hundreds of companies throughout the supply chain. Similarly, companies cannot only concern themselves with the security of their systems alone. They must monitor and mitigate vendor risk from hundreds — even thousands — third, fourth, and Nth parties.

We don’t have to look far to understand how third-party breaches have catastrophic impacts. The industry is still grappling with the fallout from the Change Healthcare incident. Just recently, American Express notified customers after a third-party merchant processor allowed unauthorized access to AMEX systems, resulting in the compromise of customer data. In early December, two zero-day vulnerabilities in Qlik Sense were discovered and notably exploited in a ransomware campaign by the Cactus Group. The incident impacted 65 companies across the U.S. and Europe, with a significant focus on manufacturing and professional services. Also, Microsoft, which is still reeling from a 2023 attack that leaked source code, just disclosed 60 unique CVEs in its March 2024 update.

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, zero-day attacks jumped significantly in 2023, fueling a 78 percent year-over-year increase in data compromises. The impact to the supply chain was staggering, with the number of organizations impacted soaring more than 2,600 since 2018. Meanwhile, phishing-related attacks were down slightly. Why? The answer is likely ROI. Phishing can be resource-intensive to eventually compromise a single company, especially when organizations have invested so heavily in training their employees to be cyber-aware. But a single zero-day can compromise tens, hundreds, or even thousands of victims. To put it simply: In the business of cyber exploits, there is more to gain.

Mitigate Zero-Day Threats with Modern Third-Party Incident Response

Third-party Incident Response Challenges

When a new CVE is announced, there is a clear general incident response playbook: Determine severity and prioritize the vulnerability, identify and patch any instances of the software in use, and monitor for indicators of compromise. However, when it comes to determining the impact of these vulnerabilities within vendor organizations, the process is less concrete.

Historically, organizations do not have visibility into vendor systems, so the only way to determine if they have been impacted by a vulnerability is by asking via manual outreach. And in today’s digitally connected cyber ecosystem, we’ve learned that response doesn’t stop there. A comprehensive approach must extend beyond direct vendors to include their sub-vendors and partners. It’s a slow process that absolutely cannot scale for large enterprises, which often have hundreds, if not thousands, of third- and fourth-party service providers to consider. This is a massive problem because the speed at which companies can identify vendors impacted by high-profile security events and then implement their response plan often determines the level of damage — financial, technical, reputation, etc. — incurred.

Another problem with traditional incident response strategies is that they rely on assessments and questionnaires to determine whether or not a serious security incident has impacted a vendor. Analyzing these responses can take weeks and by that point, the information may be outdated, causing organizations to respond late or not in time to mitigate threats in their vendor ecosystem. As an alternative, companies may enact a blanket response for all of their vendors, which can cause unnecessary business disruption or fail to properly contain or remove the threat.

Tips to Modernize and Streamline Third-Party Incident Response

Companies must modernize and streamline their security strategies to combat zero-day threats in their supply chains. There are several approaches companies can implement to improve third-party incident response.

• Adopt vendor risk intelligence. Implementing vendor risk intelligence is the most effective addition companies can make to bolster third-party incident response efforts. This involves gathering information on threats and threat actors from open-source intelligence (OSINT) and other data sources and combining it with contextual information and data — location, industry, data it accesses, etc. — to measure the potential impact a zero-day may have on an organization through its vendor network.  When applying vendor risk intelligence, organizations can dramatically reduce the amount of manual effort associated with third-party incident response. This insight will quickly determine the vendors likely to be impacted by an incident, informing a company’s response. For example, an organization with 500 vendors may require weeks, or even months, to collect and analyze responses from their vendors. However, vendor risk intelligence may show that only 15 vendors are likely to be impacted, so the primary organization can dramatically reduce its manual effort by only reaching out to those high-risk vendors.
• Create a dedicated third-party incident response team. Having a dedicated third-party incident response team is essential in capitalizing on vendor risk intelligence and responding effectively to supply chain incidents. Companies should identify and assign the roles in the response process, and clearly define the actions this team will take to quickly evaluate a vendor’s security status in the event of an incident and the incident’s level of severity. This team is responsible for collecting and analyzing OSINT data on vendors and the threat landscape. And because time is of the essence, this team should have a system in place that allows them to access this information quickly to determine which vendors may be affected in the event of an incident. This team should also build and execute playbooks on how to best contact vendors to assess the severity of the impact. Incidents may begin as times of crisis, but effective third-party incident response can actually be a significant relationship-building opportunity with vendors if both parties work in tandem to mitigate the issue.
• Invest in continuous monitoring and automation. Traditional approaches rely on point-in-time data to assess a vendor’s security posture. This is problematic because it doesn’t reflect real-time changes to systems and software, and it is notably difficult to gain visibility into vendors’ activities in general. Continuous threat monitoring can ensure companies identify high-profile events quickly. Automation can expedite the collection and analysis of OSINT data, ensuring fast access to vendor risk intelligence third-party incident response teams need most. It can be used to vet vendors based on location or access to sensitive data. This information can be combined with threat monitoring information to provide critical visibility into vendor security postures and real-time information about the impact of a zero-day vulnerability.
• Ensure robust vendor evaluations. Companies should thoroughly evaluate their vendors for any signs of compromise and ensure that they have implemented robust security measures. It is crucial that analysis encompasses a broad spectrum of risk factors, including ransomware susceptibility, vendor size, industry, and geographical location. This comprehensive approach is essential for mitigating risks and safeguarding against the multifaceted nature of cyber threats in today’s interconnected digital landscape.

Solving Third-Party Incident Response

Zero days are a clear and present danger to the supply chain. Incidents like Qlik Sense, Microsoft and many others underscore the importance of robust third-party risk management strategies in identifying and mitigating cyber threats. As digital ecosystems expand, it is imperative for companies to modernize and streamline their approaches to third-party incident response to eliminate uninformed, manual processes. They need dedicated teams armed with data on vendor risk, a holistic view of the threat landscape, and automation to transform complex cyber threat information into actionable intelligence. These modern strategies will foster stronger vendor relationships, enable faster response, and ensure companies remain secure and protected in the event of high-profile attacks.

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Cloudflare is an hour-long discussion and software demo focusing on API security trends and predictions.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers across enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people come to Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with network solutions provider Cloudflare. Join Melinda Marks, a renowned cybersecurity practice director for Enterprise Strategy Group, and Saikrishna Chavali and John Cosgrove from Cloudflare to learn about key API security trends and predictions to consider.

Featured Speakers:

Melinda Marks, Practice Director, Cybersecurity at Enterprise Strategy Group

With more than 20 years of experience in technology marketing and strategy, Melinda is passionate about conveying product value and differentiation and driving revenue. Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Melinda was chief marketing and strategy officer for Soluble, a startup focused on automating application security testing for developers (acquired by Lacework). She was also VP of Marketing at Armorblox, VP of Marketing at Styra, and head of marketing for StackRox (acquired by Red Hat). She also spent many years at VMware, where she built its original customer reference program, led product PR, and was on the core planning team for VMworld since its inception.

Saikrishna Chavali, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Cloudflare

Saikrishna (Sai) Chavali is growing the awareness, interest and revenue for our API Security and Management solutions. Cloudflare’s mission to build and protect a better internet attracted him to join this rocket ship. In addition, he has a decade of experience building and growing application security testing, data loss prevention, cloud security, and bot management products. He’s had product management and product marketing stints at Veracode, CA Technologies, and Proofpoint.

John Cosgrove, Product Manager at Cloudflare

With over a decade of experience in Enterprise IT, John has dedicated the past eight years to fortifying websites and APIs against evolving threats. Collaborating extensively with clients, he brings deep insights into the complex challenges of today’s security landscape. Currently leading Cloudflare’s API Gateway product, John is recognized for his impactful contributions to the field of API Security and digital defense.

About Cloudflare:

Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy for web traffic. It supports web protocols, including SPDY, HTTP/2, and QUIC, and supports HTTP/2 Server Push. Since at least 2017, Cloudflare has been using a wall of lava lamps in their San Francisco headquarters as a source of randomness for encryption keys, alongside double pendulums in its London offices and a Geiger counter in its Singapore offices. As of 2024, Cloudflare was providing paid services to over 162,000 customers.

FAQ

• What: 2024 API Security Trends and Predictions
• When: Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 9:00am Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details)

Register for Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Cloudflare FREE

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Broadcom is an hour-long discussion and software demo focusing on key challenges and best practices for NOC operations.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers across enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people come to Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

With the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review’s team has again partnered with Broadcom, a leader in cybersecurity and network monitoring solutions. Join Chief Technical Evangelist Jeremy Rossbach as he shows the best practices for overcoming modern network complexity hindering quality network delivery experiences.

Speaker

As the Chief Technical Evangelist for NetOps by Broadcom, Jeremy Rossbach is passionate about meeting with customers to identify their IT operational challenges and produce solutions that fit their business and network transformation goals. Prior to joining Broadcom, he spent over 15+ years working in IT, across both public and private sectors, managing data centers for startups, healthcare, financial, and federal system integrators. His previous roles as a data center administrator, engineer, architect, and manager provided him invaluable insights into the challenges and goals of IT consumers.

About Broadcom

DX NetOps by CA Technologies, a Broadcom-owned company, is a network monitoring and analytics software that unifies traditional network and systems monitoring with full-stack analysis. The solution gathers intelligence on inventory, topology, device metrics, faults, flow, and packet analysis for traditional, software-defined, and cloud-based network architectures. DX NetOps is also augmented by Broadcom’s AIOps platform, bringing NetOps and AIOps together to proactively solve network problems through automated remediation capabilities.

FAQ

• What: “Key Challenges and Best Practices for Modern NOC Observability” — A Solution Spotlight Event with Broadcom
• When: Thursday, March 14th, 2024, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details)

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Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series is a collection of contributed articles written by thought leaders in enterprise technology. Delilah Schwartz of Cybersixgill crosses over the vast sea of threat intelligence, in search of added value by combining the right tools.

Given today’s expansive digital landscape and widening attack surface, the volume of threat intelligence data has reached unmanageable levels. However, there is a way for companies to overcome these challenges and optimize the business value of their cyber threat intelligence investments.

The continued acceleration of highly sophisticated cyber-attacks impacts countless organizations, their brand’s reputation, and their bottom line. This situation puts growing pressure on security leaders to effectively and successfully reduce organizational threat exposure across a rapidly proliferating attack surface. Without the means to identify the threats that pose the most significant risk to their organizations, security teams continue to fight cyber warfare like playing a game of whack-a-mole, addressing issues as they occur without successfully getting ahead of malicious actors.

Cyber threat intelligence plays a vital role in cyber warfare and is no longer a “nice-to-have” but a “need-to-have” weapon. With the right intelligence tools, teams can derive critical insights into the emerging tactics, techniques, vectors, and procedures that could expose their network to attack. But selecting the right threat intelligence products and services to maximize business value is not easy.

Finding Business Value in the Vast Sea of Threat Intelligence

Gaining an Accurate Picture of the Threat Landscape Through Context and Accuracy

The value of threat intelligence depends not only on the relevance and timeliness of the information but also – and perhaps more importantly – on the context it provides. For threat intelligence to be effective, it must support risk assessment with critical context about threat actor groups and their tactics, techniques, procedures, vulnerability exploits, indicators of compromise, and more. In its recent Market Guide for Security Threat Intelligence Products and Services, Gartner recommends that organizations look for vendors offering context-rich threat intelligence that can be customized and tailored for their unique threat landscape.

For example, through the combination of advanced AI, machine learning, and processing and analyzing comprehensive data from millions of online and dark web sources, organizations can receive early warnings of potential risks to their network. When threat intelligence blends context about each organization’s unique attack surface and assets, companies gain contextual, accurate insights into the nature, source, and urgency of each threat they face. As a result, security teams can operate more efficiently, knowing that they’re taking action to mitigate the most urgent, dangerous threats to their corporate environment.

Integrating CTI, DRPS, and EASM

With so much at stake and so many dollars invested in a wide range of cybersecurity solutions, organizations need to prove the value of their security stack. The need to show value drives a shift toward companies consolidating vendors and products to simplify their solution suites. As a result, threat intelligence vendors are beginning to integrate features from adjacent markets, such as Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS) and External Attack Surface Management (EASM), to offer a more comprehensive cybersecurity solution.

When vendors add DRPS to their threat intelligence solutions, companies can proactively monitor their digital footprint across the surface web and underground sites, forums, and marketplaces, identifying and mitigating risks that could impact their brand reputation, customer trust, or compliance status. Additionally, integrating EASM discovery capabilities with Attack Surface Management (ASM) gives companies a comprehensive view of their unknown externally-facing assets so they can identify and manage discovered vulnerabilities and potential entry points for threat actors. By combining these solutions with threat intelligence, organizations gain a unified view of their complete asset inventory and overall threat exposure to proactively identify and mitigate risks to their environment.

Enhancing CTI Outputs with Data Analytics and Automation

The ever-expanding, continuously evolving threat landscape means the volume of threat intelligence data that organizations must understand and act upon is now unmanageable. In its Market Guide for Security Threat Intelligence Products and Services, Gartner notes that analytics, data science, and automation are becoming critical components of threat intelligence solutions. These capabilities are increasingly important because they can significantly reduce the time and effort needed to operationalize threat intelligence across large, mixed datasets and arms organizations with actionable, contextual insights. As a result, security teams are much better equipped to protect their assets and attack surfaces.

Automated CTI that autonomously infiltrates deep, dark, and clear web sources enables frontline defenders to extract, process, correlate, and analyze data in real-time — without human intervention or validation — and gain threat intelligence that is refined to their organization’s unique assets and attack surface. These benefits are more significant when adding features like graph analytics, link analysis, and rich threat actor modeling.

Additionally, advanced capabilities like entity extraction, visual graph analyzers, peer network analysis, and a customizable dashboard interface help organizations understand their threat exposure at a glance and quickly identify and prioritize the threats that pose the most significant risk. In essence, next-generation CTI solutions that blend robust analytics with automation and other cutting-edge capabilities give customers powerful data to rapidly respond to critical threats and mitigate risks before they can be exploited.

Tailoring Predictions and Risk Assessments According to Business-Criticality

With the amount of data available from millions of clear web and underground sources, threat intelligence can be overwhelming. Unless it is scoped and filtered for organizational relevancy, the sheer volume of data is nearly impossible to manage, resulting in a delay in incident detection and remediation and inhibiting effective decision-making.

Organizations can optimize their threat intelligence investments by developing a CTI program tailored to their unique business needs, risks, and objectives. By refining threat intelligence with the organization’s critical internal context, security teams can filter out irrelevant data and focus on the threats and insights that matter most to their business. Additionally, business executives are better equipped to make informed decisions and prioritize their resources effectively.

These benefits are another reason for integrating an EASM solution with CTI. EASM continuously discovers and classifies known and unknown networked assets that could expose an organization to risk, while combining the two technologies enables companies to tailor threat intelligence to their unique attack surface. Security teams can then monitor their complete asset inventory in real-time across the deep, dark, and clear web and conduct detailed, refined risk assessments to receive early warnings of emerging threats targeting the business. With this type of full visibility into organizational threat exposure, security teams can confidently prioritize their efforts and resources where they are needed most.

Final Thoughts on Threat Intelligence

The rapidly expanding digital landscape and proliferation of potential attack vectors have created an increasingly complex and challenging environment for security teams. The accelerated pace of technological advancements means that manual and hybrid solutions are no longer adequate to protect the expanding attack surface at the scale and sophistication of emerging threats. Threat actors increasingly leverage AI and automation, making it imperative for security vendors and defenders to incorporate these technologies in their cybersecurity strategy.

Given the pace of threat actor activity and the sophistication of their tools and technologies, organizations must embrace AI and automation, incorporating these capabilities within their cybersecurity programs to keep pace with the evolving threat landscape. By doing so, they can scale their threat intelligence activities, augment and optimize the efficiency of their existing teams, and provide faster time to insight and action. Ultimately, this will enable them to better protect their systems, data, and customers from cyber-attacks.

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The editors at Solutions Review examine the best VPN services enterprises should consider implementing into their security strategy today.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) services are pivotal in fortifying enterprise security through advanced encryption, secure data transmission, and enhanced privacy mechanisms. In the contemporary landscape of interconnected digital operations, VPNs serve as a vital shield against cyber threats and unauthorized access. By establishing encrypted tunnels over public networks, VPNs enable employees to access sensitive corporate resources remotely, while shielding their communications from potential eavesdropping and data interception. This encryption not only safeguards proprietary information, trade secrets, and confidential communication from cyber-criminals but also protects against potential breaches when using unsecured networks. Furthermore, VPNs can ensure that data is routed through secure and monitored pathways, reducing the risk of man-in-the-middle attacks and preventing cyber adversaries from exploiting vulnerabilities in open Wi-Fi networks.

Through a stringent authentication process, VPNs enforce multi-factor authentication and user identity verification, ensuring that only authorized personnel can access critical enterprise systems. Additionally, VPNs can provide location masking, which obscures the actual geographical location of employees– making it more challenging for malicious actors to target specific individuals. Overall, by bolstering data confidentiality, securing remote connections, and mitigating exposure to cyber threats, VPN services stand as an indispensable component of modern enterprise security frameworks.

If a VPN isn’t already part of your business’s cybersecurity strategy, these are the best VPN services to consider today.

The 13 Best VPN Services in 2023

Atlas VPN

Founded in 2019, Atlas VPN is a highly secure freemium VPN service with a goal to make safe and open internet accessible for everyone. In 2021, Atlas VPN became part of Nord Security— a leader in providing digital security and privacy solutions. While relatively new to the VPN scene, they are already trusted by more than 6 million users across the world. Their main driving force is to make digital privacy and security accessible to all consumers, irrespective of their budget or tech-savviness. Anyone is welcome to try Atlas VPN for free or sign up for premium services with more additional features.

CyberGhost

CyberGhost is a Romania-based VPN provider that protects users’ data from online surveillance and censorship. Since 2011, the company has been preventing shady organizations and actors who wish to profit off of personal information maliciously. With CyberGhost, users can mask their IP address by connecting to one of over 5,700 VPN servers located in 90 countries, keeping their web traffic anonymous and secure. CyberGhost defends privacy as a fundamental human right, being the first in the industry to publish a transparency report while building new user-oriented crypto-technology for the future.

ExpressVPN

ExpressVPN is a British-based company whose VPN solution lets users securely and anonymously browse the web and access blocked worldwide content from anywhere. The company currently hosts over 3,000 VPN servers, with 160 server locations in 94 countries across the globe, and users have the option to switch between servers whenever they want. Users can hide their IP addresses from potentially malicious actors and enjoy anonymous web surfing, unlocked regional content, and unthrottled data speeds.

GoodAccess

Founded in 2020, GoodAccess is a Czech-based cloud VPN with zero-trust access controls specially designed for small and medium businesses. Developed with simplicity and ease of use in mind, GoodAccess is a secure remote access solution that interconnects remote workers, applications, data centers, clouds, and offices via one resilient virtual network. No hardware or complex setup is required, as the platform is fully cloud-based and is deployable in less than 10 minutes. With customers in over 120 countries, GoodAccess is recognized by TechRadar as one of the best ZTNA solutions and acclaimed by leading review platforms such as G2 and Capterra for its excellence in customer support, simplicity, and ease of use.

HideMyAss!

HMA is a United Kingdom-based virtual private network provider that has operated as a subsidiary of the Czech cybersecurity company Avast since 2016. Founded in 2005, the vendor is one of the oldest VPN providers still in existence. HMA provides digital software and services intended to help users remain anonymous online and encrypt their online traffic. Its software is used to access websites that may be blocked in the user’s country, to anonymize information that could otherwise be used by hackers, and to do something unscrupulous without being identified. HMA operates over 1,000 servers in 290 locations across the globe and offers VPN applications for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, routers, Apple TV, Android TV, Chrome, and Firefox.

IPVanish

IPVanish is a USA-based virtual private network provider founded in 2012 that was recently acquired in 2019 by J2 Global. The vendor offers VPN software and applications for desktop and mobile devices, including Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, ChromeOS, and Amazon devices. IPVanish also offers VPN software for routers. IPVanish uses the OpenVPN and IKEv2/IPsec technologies in its applications, while the L2TP and PPTP connection protocols can also be configured. IPVanish supports the AES (128-bit or 256-bit) specifications, with SHA-256 for authentication and an RSA-2048 handshake IPVanish currently operates over 1,300 servers in over 75 global locations, with most of its servers located in North America and Europe.

NordVPN

NordVPN is a Panama-based virtual private network provider formed in 2012 to fight against Internet censorship, content control, and intrusive government surveillance. As of 2020, the vendor helps more than 12 million customers protect their online transactions and web traffic from Internet surveillance and cyber threats. The vendor operates over 5500 VPN servers in 58 countries, providing military-grade encryption, DNS leak protection, and lightning-fast data speeds. In April 2022, NordVPN’s parent company Nord Security raised $100 million in a round of funding led by Novator. The company’s valuation reached $1.6 billion.

PrivadoVPN

PrivadoVPN is a Switzerland-based platform, launched in 2019. PrivadoVPN’s simple-to-use apps for Android, Windows, macOS, iOS, Fire TV Stick, and AndroidTV. You can also access their super fast servers manually in Linux. When you connect to the PrivadoVPN network, you are protected by 256-bit AES encryption. All of your incoming and outgoing data is sent through an encrypted tunnel so that third parties won’t be able to intercept your private information. There’s even the option to securely access region-blocked content by changing to any of their global servers– effectively masking your IP address and physical location.

Private Internet Access

Private Internet Access is a USA-based virtual private network provider founded in 2010 and recently acquired by Kape Technologies in 2019. The vendor offers applications for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and Google Chrome devices to provide uncensored access to the Internet and allow users to browse the web privately and securely. Private Internet Access currently operates over 3,300 servers in over 50 locations across over 30 countries. The VPN is torrent-friendly, provides SOCKS5 Proxy feature, and also port forwarding function.

Surfshark

Surfshark is a British Virgin Islands-based virtual private network provider founded in 2018. In 2021 Surfshark merged with Nord Security. However, both companies still operate independently. The vendor offers VPN applications for multiple platforms and devices, including iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, Chrome, Firefox, FireTV, and Apple TV. Surfshark currently offers over 1,040 servers in more than 61 countries. All of Surfshark’s servers come with private DNS, Camouflage Mode, IPsec/IKEv2, P2P-friendly capabilities, OpenVPN, and extension support.

TorGuard

TorGuard is a Caribbean-based virtual private network provider that was founded in 2012. The vendor offers anonymous VPN applications for several common operating systems, devices, and browsers, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Firefox, and Chrome. TorGuard currently operates over 3,000 servers in 50 countries across the globe. In addition to allowing users to browse the Internet anonymously, the provider offers a 24/7 support system to help keep your company protected.

TunnelBear

TunnelBear is a Canada-based virtual private network provider founded in 2011 and acquired by McAfee in 2018. The vendor offers VPN applications for multiple device types and operating systems, including Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices. TunnelBear also offers VPN for web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Opera; in addition, the company provides a specific service called Blocker for Chrome to attack online tracking. The VPN currently runs VPN servers in 23 different countries across the globe.

VyprVPN

VyprVPN is a Switzerland-based virtual private network solution offered by Internet privacy and security solution provider Golden Frog. The solution currently operates over 700 servers in over 70 different locations and currently offers VPN applications for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS devices. In addition, VyprVPN also delivers specific apps for routers and smart TVs. In addition to providing IP address protection and high-speed streaming, the vendor offers a 24/7 support system to help keep your company protected.

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Solutions Review’s Spotlight with Cloudflare is entitled: The ROI of DDoS Defense.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers across enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year over 10 million people come to Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with network solutions provider, Cloudflare. Join this webinar to understand the profound impact DDoS attacks can have on an organization’s bottom line and how investing in proactive defenses can yield substantial returns.

Featured Speaker:

• Kimberly Biddings, Senior Product Manager

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that provides content delivery network services, cloud cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and ICANN-accredited domain registration services. Cloudflare’s headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy for web traffic. It supports web protocols including SPDY and HTTP/2, QUIC, and support for HTTP/2 Server Push. Since at least 2017, Cloudflare has been using a wall of lava lamps in their San Francisco headquarters as a source of randomness for encryption keys, alongside double pendulums in its London offices and a Geiger counter in its Singapore offices. The lava lamp installation implements the LavaRand method, where a camera transforms the unpredictable shapes of the “lava” blobs into a digital image. As of 2023, Cloudflare was providing paid services to over 162,000 customers.

FAQ

• What: The ROI of DDoS Defense
• When: Tuesday, September 19, 2023, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more detail)

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The editors at Solutions Review highlight what’s changed in Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for APM and Observability and provide an analysis of the new report.

Analyst house Gartner, Inc.’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for APM and Observability has arrived. Gartner defines the application performance monitoring (APM) and observability market as software that enables the observation and analysis of application health, performance, and user experience. Gartner reports that the user market for APM is represented by IT operations, site reliability engineers, cloud and platform ops, application developers, and product owners.

Key features and capabilities, according to Gartner, when choosing an APM platform should include automated discovery and mapping of an application and its infrastructure components. Network automation can be based on artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). Network monitoring should be able to watch the activity on both mobile and desktop endpoints. It should have native integration capabilities with automation and service management tools and public cloud service providers (IE CloudWatch, Azure Monitoring, etc.). Overall, the platform should be capable of analyzing application performance problems and their impact on business productivity.

2023 Magic Quadrant for APM and Observability

In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 19 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. The graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. At Solutions Review, we read the report, available here, and pulled out the key takeaways. This is not an in-depth analysis, only an observation of notable changes since the 2023 report.

Gartner highlights the following providers in the application performance monitoring market: Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic Splunk, Honeycomb, AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Grafana Labs, ServiceNow, Elastic, Logz.io, Oracle, Sumo Logic, SolarWinds, Broadcom, Riverbed, and ManageEngine.

Leaders

In the Leaders quadrant, Datadog and Dynatrace switch places, with Dynatrace moving up and Datadog moving down. The Dynatrace platform comprises Infrastructure Observability, Application Observability, Security Protection, Security Analytics, Digital Experience, Business Analytics, Automations, and Custom Solutions. Its geographically-diversified operations focus on EMEA, North America, and the mature APAC region. Their customers tend to be large global enterprises. New Relic retains its position, followed by former Visionary, Splunk. The Splunk Observability Cloud covers many areas of observability, including infrastructure, APM, DEM, AIOps, and incident intelligence. Its operations are geographically diversified, and its customers tend to be large enterprises. Splunk’s roadmap includes AI-directed end-to-end full-stack observability for hybrid environments, integration across observability and security, and visibility and controls into metrics platform usage and costs. IBM moved to the Challengers. And Honeycomb retains its spot at the bottom of the quadrant.

Challengers

In the Challengers quadrant, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, and Microsoft retain their positions. Sumo Logic vacates its spot, joins the Niche Players, and is replaced by former Leader, IBM. IBM acquired Instana in 2020, and its Instana APM product is offered as a SaaS product and as a self-hosted option, using a single-agent architecture. Its operations primarily focus on North America and Western Europe, with fewer clients in other regions. Its client base is midsize-to-large enterprises. IBM’s monitoring portfolio includes mainframe as well as modern cloud architectures. IBM’s roadmap includes an upcoming synthetics monitoring component and advances to its AI-assisted remediation capacity.

Visionaries

With Splunk now in the Leaders quadrant and VMWare out of the square all together, the doors are now open to new Visionaries, Grafana Labs, and ServiceNow. In the APM and observability realm, Grafana Labs offers enterprise and SaaS versions of Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs), and Tempo (traces), as well as Grafana Enterprise for visualization. Its customers are global, but centered in the Americas and EMEA. Recent activities include the acquisition of continuous profiling vendor Pyroscope, the release of a Kubernetes monitoring solution, and a unified incident response management suite. ServiceNow’s offering is Cloud Observability (formerly Lightstep, an acquisition completed in 2021). ServiceNow’s operations are global, primarily in North America and EMEA, with a growing presence in APAC. ServiceNow has clients in all verticals, including financial services, government, healthcare, and manufacturing. To date, Cloud Observability has been maintained as a separate SaaS offering and is outside the core ServiceNow Now Platform. ServiceNow’s roadmap for Cloud Observability includes expanding use cases around DEX and remediation, and a focus on tighter integration with the core ServiceNow Now Platform. Elastic and Logz.io retain their positions.

Niche Players

In the Niche Players, Alibaba Cloud is out. Oracle takes its place at the top of the quadrant, followed by former Challenger, Sumo Logic. Sumo Logic’s Observability platform is focused on providing availability, performance, and security analysis via SaaS monitoring. Its operations are geographically diverse, and its clients include enterprise and midmarket segments. Sumo Logic’s roadmap includes enhanced analytics use cases, an evolution of Kubernetes observability, RASP, and an increased contribution to OpenTelemetry. SolarWinds moved up a few spots. Riverbed moved down a few spots, dropping just below Broadcom, who held their position. ManageEngine retains its position near the bottom of the quadrant from last year.

Read Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for APM and Observability

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Rubrik is entitled: See How University of Reading Safeguards Their Data with Rubrik.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers across enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year over 10 million people come to Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading zero trust data security vendor Rubrik. The resource webinar will showcase how the immeasurable volumes of data in your Microsoft 365 environment are at risk. And now that Rubrik is partnered with Microsoft, its Microsoft 365 protection is even stronger.

• Salvatore Buccoliero, Sales Engineer at Rubrik: Salvatore is a Senior SAAS & Security Sales Engineer who enjoys working with customers to secure enterprise data. Salvatore gets motivated by working with disruptive products and fast-growing organizations and has experience since the 2000’s in launching new vendors and distributing products.
• Kevin Mortimer, Head of Operations at the University of Reading: Kevin, Head of Operations at University of Reading, has been a Rubrik customer since 2018. Kevin is a self-motivating, enthusiastic technologist at heart with a focus on service management. Innovative emerging technologies have always been a core value for infrastructure services.

About Rubrik

Rubrik is one of the most widely used enterprise data protection solutions in the world. Rubrik provides data protection and data management in hybrid IT environments. The platform is a scale-out-architecture-based data protection tool with cloud integration, live mount for Oracle databases, support for Office 365 backup, and support for SAP HANA backup. Rubrik‘s solution is recommended to buyers looking to protect highly virtualized on-prem environments and hybrid environments that leverage Microsoft Azure and AWS.

FAQ

• What: See How University of Reading Safeguards Their Data with Rubrik
• When: Thursday, July 20, 2023, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more detail)

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