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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.

Businesses, critical systems, infrastructure, and even human life are more threatened than ever as attackers target the Internet-connected “things” that run the modern world.

Cryptocurrency exchanges and their supporting application systems are being attacked at an unprecedented level. As the value of cryptocurrency has climbed, so has the incentive to steal.

F5 Labs' Preston Hogue writes for SecurityWeek, discussing how attackers might be targeting your data with an eye on a larger prize.

F5 Labs' Ray Pompon writes for Help Net Security, discussing the dismayingly low number of firms whose CISO owns application security.

Seventeen years after the opportunity for abuse was made public, attackers are finding new ways to make use of this unpatched web crawler service.

F5 Labs' David Warburton writes for Global Banking & Finance Review, discussing the feasibility of attacks against blockchains.

F5 Labs' Ray Pompon writes for Help Net Security, describing the multifaceted dangers of false positives.