Avi Chesla

Bringing Security Architecture Out of the Darkness and Into the Light

You Can’t Respond to Big Data with Big Collection... 

Cybersecurity demands the impossible: that we look into the future to see where hackers are heading and what tactics they are brewing up. Of...

The world of cybersecurity is becoming more and more complicated and – some say – almost unmanageable.  This is due to the increasing volume...

The increasing volume and sophistication of cyberattacks over the last few years has resulted in millions of dollars of investments in new cybersecurity startups,...

For years, security experts have been struggling to create proactive security products and proactive cyber defense strategies. If we had them, would we have...

Security collaboration has, and still is, generating significant attention: How can we join forces and use crowd intelligence to employ better security defense strategies...

The abundance of security solutions flooding the market (and IT racks) has not resulted in any a strong confidence for preventing cyber-attacks. To support...

Think of the major cyber-attacks from the past few years - the Sony hack, Target breach, Neiman Marcus, Snapchat Breach, H

Following my previous column, Taking Back the Reigns, about the need to empower network security managers and allowing them to proactively program security solution...

I’m probably stating the obvious, but a brief look at security reports that summarize 2014 demonstrates that attackers, again, have the upper hand. The...

Winning in the Cyber Battlefield: Transforming Cyber Defense Planning Model into Actions

Network security products are disaggregated into smaller elementary security functions. Compared to a typical network security product, each function is more basic, more stable,...

From Security Products to Security Systems, and Now: Security Networks We all know that servers virtualization technologies have matured already and many networks adapt...

For quite some time, there has been an interest in the security industry for a quadrant that’s specifically for attack mitigation systems and services....

While Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks bring the promise of relieving traffic jams for mobile operators, they also entail new security risks.

Network virtualization, under the umbrella of Software Defined Networking (SDN), presents an opportunity for network innovation but at the same time introduces a new...

Yearly predictions are always risky. Even more so when your subjects are cybercrime organizations, hacktivist groups, and other security attackers – entities not exactly...

Many Organizations Are Vulnerable to Encrypted Attacks, And the Probability Of Being Be a Victim of Such An Attack Is Increasing...

I’m sure you’ve read about the recent cyber attack campaigns against financial institutions, and have probably wondered why and how they have been so...