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What is ransomware?
Ransomware is malicious software used to encrypt computer systems, files and personal information. Once infected by ransomware, a message or ‘ransom note’ is displayed demanding payment for decryption.

What is SOAR?
SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) enables organisations to streamline security operations in three key areas: Threat and vulnerability management, incident response and security operations automation.

What is SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)?
SASE or Security Access Service Edge addresses the model of the data centre as the key element in enterprise security that has become obsolete.

Next-generation data centre
Simplify IT operations with a next-generation data centre. Important aspects of new cloud infrastructure are agility, simplicity, automation and security.

What is REvil ransomware?
REvil ransomware is a file blocking virus considered a serious threat that encrypts files after infection and discards a ransom request message.

Network switch versus router: What is the difference?
Routers and switches are both computer networking devices that allow one or more computers to be connected to other computers, networked devices, or to other networks.

What is secure cloud connect
Discover Secure Cloud Connect Solutions. Securely connected to the public cloud.

What is social engineering?
Social engineering is the practice of duping or tricking people into breaking standard security practices. This non-technical strategy is heavily used by cyber criminals in both targeted and widespread attacks.

What is EVPN-VXLAN?
Ethernet VPN-Ethernet Virtual Extensible LAN (EVPN-VXLAN) gives large organisations a common framework used to manage their campus and data centre networks.

What is the shared responsibility model?
The shared responsibility model is a framework for cloud security dictating the security obligations of a cloud computing provider and its users to ensure accountability.

How does multicloud work?
Connect and secure applications across many clouds, as simply as in one cloud.

What is an application layer attack?
An application layer attack, or 'DDoS Attack', targets an application and specific vulnerabilities or issues, so the application is not able to communicate and or deliver content to its user(s).

What is hybrid cloud?
Hybrid cloud infrastructures allow you to maintain and control dedicated platforms for key systems while benefitting from the flexibility that public cloud solutions offer.

What is VoWiFi?
VoWiFi stands for voice over (Evolved Packet Core-integrated) WiFi and is a complementary technology to VoLTE.

What is LockerGoga ransomware?
LockerGoga is a malicious ransomware program that was made to encrypt data stored on computers and to blackmail users by demanding ransom payments in return for decryption tools.

What is private cloud
You get the agility, scalability and efficiency of the public cloud, with the greater levels of control and security of a single-tenant, dedicated environment.

What is network slicing
Network slicing is a virtual networking architecture type that belongs to the software-defined networking (SDN) family and network functions virtualisation (NFV).

What is the SS7 firewall?
The SS7 firewall is a ‘signalling firewall’ used to protect mobile operators from SS7 Attacks. The SS7 firewall protects legacy networks (SS7 based) specifically against potential attacks, unauthorised senders, malformed messages, stolen mobile identities and more.