Latus Solutions is hosting a private lunch event for Security Leaders in the Silicon Valley on April 18th. The title of the event is “Practical Strategies for staying ahead of Malware Operators” with a focus on the enablement of these strategies to help companies quickly and cost effectively address today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape. As [...]

As a follow up to our first article that defined Application Service Architecture (ASA), I found it appropriate to further discuss the core practices that make up a good ASA strategy . . . application management, application layer security, and application optimization. In this article I will highlight application layer security since its the one that garners [...]

It sounds a bit obvious, but we see it overlooked quite often so we decided to address why it’s important to consider your network connectivity when selecting a WAN optimization controller (WOC). Traditionally, the network and the performance of TCP (or lack thereof) over that network have been the primary drivers behind early WAN optimization [...]

Call it SaaS, hosted software or cloud computing, there is no doubt that the software industry is going through a new revolution. The number of companies joining the cloud bandwagon is increasing with each passing day. Like any other software paradigm, sending services to the cloud has its pros (cost savings, simplified maintenance) and its [...]

We are getting a lot of inquiries from our customers about Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). They ask us questions like: Do our antivirus solutions protect us? How do we measure our risk? How do we defend against them? In an attempt to address a broader audience, we decided to quickly write about the topic. Let’s spend [...]

It has come to our attention that a lot of our customers are interested in the value of application layer firewalls. However, they are worried about the deployment risks associated with changing their current firewall environment and the business risk of working with smaller, more progressive vendors in this space.  To counter those concerns, we [...]

Companies now more than ever are tackling infrastructure and security challenges that go beyond the packet switching network and into the application layer (Layer 4 – 7) Both networking and security professionals are task with delivering a diverse set of application to their users that may or may not be hosted in a WAN connected datacenter. Moreover, [...]

The intrusion prevention system IPS has not, in the past, been a “must have” tool at most enterprise organizations. But with recent interest from the federal government, intrusion prevention system IPS vendors are trying to overcome some of the barriers that have prevented big companies from implementing it in the past. The U.S. Department of [...]

Technology is meant for the betterment of human lives – but unfortunately it doesn’t always work that way. Computers have become smarter and so have the people who use them. Unfortunately, not everybody likes to use computers for constructive purposes. While the world has learned to live with the threat of viruses, trojans, worms and [...]

First, lets define uncontrolled endpoints so we are all on the same page from the start. For this discussion, an uncontrolled endpoint is a device that can access information or content from a host entity, but the host entity doesn’t have, or can’t, control that device.  These include: 1. Endpoints that represent remote workers accessing [...]