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John Wayne Airport back to normal after security incident forces evacuations
John Wayne Airport evacuating travelers amid security incident
A security incident is under investigation at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.
SANTA ANA, Calif. – John Wayne Airport is back to normal after a security incident forced evacuations.
Travelers who were forced to evacuate are back to boarding their flights, according to the airport and passengers back on their seats.
Delays and cancellations are still expected for some travelers, the airport said.
Officials did not specify what prompted the security incident in the first place.
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Network monitoring important as disruption is the new ‘normal’
The year 2020 has taught us that a business’ ability to respond will dictate their ability to survive. The work-from-anywhere model was embraced often before many companies and businesses rethought their network infrastructure and protecting it. What was once easy to manage behind your business network firewall has become complicated with many employees working remotely, often using their own devices. In prior columns, I have discussed Risk Assessment and Security issues. Now we will look at Network Monitoring.
Your network infrastructure is more important than ever with more data and applications moving to the Cloud. You want the right network infrastructure from your wiring, switches, firewalls and wireless in place to give you the best possible access to this data. Your users deserve the best possible access to your companies’ resources. But how can you ensure the best possible experience and manage this equipment while verifying that all your switches, firewalls and wireless access points are always available? Like traffic jams on the highway during rush hour, you want to minimize congestion and optimize your performance with the right equipment and management of your network infrastructure. How do you avoid guessing what is wrong within the network?
Your IT provider can help you isolate network problems and fix them proactively by utilizing network monitoring for every aspect of your network: IT Infrastructure, connectivity, web traffic and security. A thorough network monitoring system will watch trends in uptime and downtime, user requests, response times, errors, faulty equipment and network faults. The goal is to isolate and repair problems before your network “goes down”.
With more applications moving to the cloud and users working remotely, you need redundancy, resiliency and a plan to have the best possible network infrastructure that you can manage, grow and adapt to. Your network is at full capacity now with more users video conferencing, virtual private networks, remote access and meetings. The load has more than doubled. Without network monitoring in place, you could be living on the edge with an accident ready to happen.
Management software will…
Assessing the New Normal for Cybersecurity
As work from home continues, cyberthreats related to the new normal will remain even post-pandemic
“Pandemic” was the word of the year, with runners up including quarantine, coronavirus and asymptomatic. They make sense, of course, but two phrases that should also be included in that list are “remote worker” (or work from home, take your pick) and “new normal.”
In the cybersecurity world, everything revolved the remote worker as soon as the pandemic hit the country hard. How do you connect them securely? How do you keep them from making mistakes that could lead to cyberthreats? The challenge was real, and it will continue to vex cybersecurity teams for a long time because, well, this is our new normal.
In a survey of 600 IT security professionals, conducted by Check Point, 47% of respondents said security for employees working remotely will be the leading challenge going into 2021, while 61% said it is going to a top priority for the next two years. And exactly half said that there will be no return to pre-pandemic cybersecurity norms.
“For many, the rapid changes they made to their networks and security infrastructures in response to the pandemic will be permanent,” Mark Ostrowski, head of engineering at Check Point, said in a formal statement. “Dealing with the impact of the pandemic on business operations, and ensuring they can continue to operate as efficiently and as securely as possible will be the biggest ongoing challenge for most enterprises.”
Where the New Normal Is
Organizations saw a major shift in cybersecurity in 2020. “Ninety-five percent of respondents said their strategies had changed in the second half of the year, the biggest being enabling remote working at scale,” the report stated. “This was followed by security education for employees; improving network security and threat prevention; expanded endpoint and mobile security, and rapid adoption of cloud technologies.” And for the majority, the response to the pandemic required unplanned reinventions to their cybersecurity business model, leaving little room to work on projects initially planned for 2020.
The most major shift that this pandemic has created for organizations in…