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Nominum, the provider of the N2, an open and scalable network-based service delivery platform for communication service providers (CSPs) joined the influential global industry body, TM Forum. Nominum is helping the world’s leading CSPs offer personalized, secure connected experiences that enhance the overall customer experience. Nominum’s N2 platform allows CSPs to leverage customer behavior data…
By Craig Sprosts, VP of Product Management
Nominum analyzed customer data from around the world to find the mobile malware that presents the greatest risk to mobile subscribers. The top five mobile-device-only malware threats are:
NONCOMPATIBLE - a drive-by trojan malware which can infect android phones via their mobile web browsers. When browser’s download is completed, it will ask…By Craig Sprosts, VP of Product Management
Nominum analyzed customer data from around the world to find the top cyber threats ranked by degree of infection. The result was a mix of new and modern bots, and legacy bots.
Top 10 Bots/Cyber Threats
Ngrbot/dorkbot Spybot Ramnit Spambot Palevo/butterfly Virut Zeus Sality Conficker NitolSome top regional bots did…
By Bruce Van Nice, Driector of Product Marketing
In previous posts, Pat discussed the risks associated with BYOD, and a DNS-based approach for reducing those risks. Essentially this approach consisted of making use of an enterprise’s caching DNS server to monitor and block DNS queries to known botnet command and control (C&C) domains. Finding these C&C domains is something Nominum does quite…
By Pat Barnes, Product Manager for Applications and Security
In part 1, I talked about some of the risks associated with BYOD. But there are actions you can take to greatly reduce this risk. One effective method for limiting the risk of BYOD is to employ DNS-based security intelligence techniques. DNS-based security intelligence makes use…
By Pat Barnes, Product Manager for Applications and Security
Ah, BYOD. How I love thee.
BYOD, or “Bring Your Own Device”, gives me choices. I can use a device at work I actually like and am most effective with. (How did I ever get by without my iPad?)
But BYOD comes with challenges. Personal devices can be infected with malware. Once they’re connected to an enterprise’s network,…
By Manjari Asawa, Ph.D., Mobile Product Manager
The number of ‘things’ connected to the internet is already bypassing the number of people on the planet. This Internet of ‘things’ is changing the way we live and work: from the way food is grown and produced on farms through automated temperature and feeding controls, to the way we check prices and buy through connected terminals, to the…
By Bruce Van Nice, Director of Product Marketing
Last month Microsoft led an effort to take control of a domain - 3322.org - in order to disrupt more than 500 different strains of malware affecting millions of innocent people around the world. Using a surgical approach implemented with software from Nominum, Microsoft was able to sinkhole traffic to malware subdomains hosted on 3322.org…
By Bruce Van Nice, Director of Product Marketing
One of the challenges network operators face is responding quickly to market requirements. Agility is the new normal, competitive leadership is based on moving quickly. But progress can be slowed by the disparate interests of marketing or business teams, and technical or operational teams. Marketing can spot trends and identify new services,…
By Bruce Van Nice, Director of Product Marketing
Those of you who read this blog regularly will immediately notice something new. The web site has been completely redesigned – Nominum has a new look! First off there’s a new logo. It symbolizes innovation, differentiation, efficiency and agility with four arrows pointing outward in four directions. The reverse space between the arrows…