Saturday, 29 November 2025

Prolexic latency study

HOLLYWOOD, FL: Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, has released results of a website performance case study that documented variations in load times during live DDoS attacks. The study tracked performance of two financial institutions; one website had average website load times of two seconds or less, while the other experienced multiple site outages and lengthy delays in server response times.

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“We’ve had a classification policy for 30 years, but we’ve never been able to enforce it.”

Does this quote sound familiar to you? It’s very common for organizations, especially in the commercial space, to have a classification policy but no way to implement it. Instead, organizations often move directly to the data protection stage, investing in large infrastructure projects such as DLP and IRM. But without classification as the foundation of their information protection strategy, it’s impossible for organizations to know what to protect.

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Beleaguered security forces’ attempts to dismantle cartels and encroach on their vast territories are failing to stem the proliferation of violence in Mexico.

Former President Felipe Calderón’s policy directly confronting the groups succeeded in killing a significant number of kingpins. However, the cartels are no closer to loosening their grip on their hard-earned power.

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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently released Version 4 of the Twenty Critical Security Controls (here) as was determined by a consortium which included representatives from the NSA, US CERT, the DoD’s JTF-GNO and Cyber Crime Center, the DoE, the State Department, and some top commercial forensics experts and pen testers from the banking and critical infrastructure sectors.

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  2. 1st Pleb: I don’t always like the Duke of Edinburgh’s often dirty and politically insensitive jokes
  3. ASIS, ISC to move the world to Chicago
  4. Barracuda Networks and Drobo partner to provide ubiquitous data access for Drobo users with Barracuda Networks’ ‘Copy’
  5. Easynet addresses business challenges with series of breakfast briefings at the Ritz, London
  6. Sonardyne launches new Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Sonar
  7. PhishMe unveils new features to address APT at RSA 2013
  8. Armed Forces Day: Get involved, apply for funding and paint the town red in honour of our heroes, communities in Britain told
  9. “Varonis blasts Oxford University for banning Google’s Docs saying such misadventure is no solution for phishing attacks
  10. Accellion tops in Gartner MarketScope Report
  11. Pro-Vision introduces new product catalogue
  12. Barracuda Networks adds ‘Copy’ to its portfolio
  13. The International Women's Media Foundation Seeks Nominations for 2013 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award
  14. Thales e-Security keyAuthority achieves FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation
  15. Embarcadero announces platform for successful data governance



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