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29 Jul

FatPipe Sandbox: Effectively Containing Email-Borne Threats

Most targeted attacks start with an email, making it the preferred entry point for bad actors. Here is how the threat often begins: on an ordinary Monday morning, an apparently routine email from a trusted partner lands in an employee’s inbox. Busy with work, they open the attachment, unknowingly triggering a cyberattack. Scenarios like this are becoming increasingly frequent in today’s digital environment.

How can businesses defend themselves against these evolving threats? FatPipe centralized Cloud Sandbox is the solution: it detects and neutralizes advanced email-borne attacks before they affect users.

Email Attachments: The Hidden Threat in Daily Operations

Every day, attachments such as invoices, resumes, or proposals can sometimes conceal malware. If these threats remain undetected, they can disrupt your business or compromise sensitive information.

Ongoing threats pose a significant risk to all organizations. Protecting your business and data means staying alert. A single file can grant attackers access to your entire network.

FatPipe Cloud Sandbox: Containing the Threat Before It Reaches the User

All suspicious attachments, regardless of file type (including .zip, .exe, .pptx, or .rar files), are analyzed in a cloud-delivered threat analysis layer.

  • Quarantine acts as a secure holding area for emails with all potentially harmful attachments. The user does not receive the email while it is quarantined.
  • If the attachment is found to be safe after sandbox analysis, authorized personnel can release the email from quarantine for delivery to the user.
  • If the attachment is confirmed to be malicious, the email remains in quarantine and must be deleted. It cannot be delivered under any circumstances.

Comprehensive logs are maintained to provide full transparency and traceability, supporting compliance requirements.

Isolated Analysis for Swift Threat Verdicts

FatPipe Cloud sandbox has advanced capabilities to detect and neutralize zero-day threats by executing files flagged for inspection in a secure, isolated environment. It forwards suspicious email attachments for dynamic behavioral analysis and returns actionable results. During this process, threats embedded within files such as malicious macros, scripts, or URLs are safely executed and closely monitored within a controlled environment. The result: faster threat response, minimal user disruption, and accurate detection of zero-day threats.

Fewer False Positives, Sharper Focus

FatPipe Cloud Sandbox technology targets high-risk formats, thereby reducing the number of false positives. This ensures security teams prioritize real threats and avoid wasted effort on benign alerts.

Delivering Efficiency Where It Matters Most with Analytical Reports

FatPipe Cloud Sandbox rapidly detects and isolates threats before they escalate into major security incidents. Additionally, it provides timely, detailed threat reports to support informed decision-making. Organizations gain the protection security teams need and the precision users expect.

If you are ready to protect your organization from advanced email-borne threats, contact us today or schedule a demo to see FatPipe Cloud Sandbox in action!

09 Jun

FatPipe’s Focused Threat Protection with Anti-Virus and Data Loss Prevention

As organizations generate and manage digital information at an alarming rate, the demand for risk-aware and visibility-driven DLP systems has never been greater. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions essentially focus on preventing the unauthorized transmission or exposure of sensitive data beyond the realms of an organization, be it through email, web uploads, removable media, or insider misuse.

Balancing Security with Performance: FatPipe’s Smart Approach
While the need for DLP is undeniable, industries often face the challenge of balancing strong protection with operational efficiency. This is precisely where FatPipe makes the difference: delivering powerful, integrated security without compromising on performance. Just take the instance of blocking or scanning of potentially dangerous attachments which aids in preventing data leakage and malware infections. FatPipe can identify and flag suspicious content in files and emails and also scan for known malware, all without slowing business operations. Moreover, FatPipe’s antivirus/DLP offering maintains a reasonable balance between effective protection and operational efficiency. Here’s how FatPipe maintains the right balance:

  • Effective Protection Perspective: Given that today’s threat landscape is hostile, aggressiveness in certain FatPipe’s features only ease the gravity of the situation. Features like MIME type blocking, SMTP relay restrictions, and email file extension control prevent malware infiltration through deceptive attachments and rogue email servers. For example, if not for the restricting capacity that is leveraged while using certain file extensions in email attachments, your organization can easily become a prey of malware or data loss. Throttling risky file types, YouTube restrictions, and caching policies further harden the network against social engineering and bandwidth abuse.
  • Operational Efficiency Perspective: Also given the increased downtime, admin overhead, and need for quick access to trusted resources, FatPipe’s antivirus/DLP protection strategy allows customization or tuning to avoid false positives, is optimized for performance to not overwhelm system resources, is flexible enough to minimize user disruption, is policy-driven, and allows different enforcement levels for different departments or risk levels. For e.g., you can get the benefit of filtering inappropriate YouTube videos without blocking the entire platform, preserving access for business or educational purposes.

FatPipe’s antivirus and DLP solution ensures that an equilibrium is achieved: proactive in protection, yet adaptable in practice. But effective DLP isn’t just about how you protect, it’s also about what you protect. In the second part of this series, we will delve into how FatPipe identifies and protects different types of sensitive data, and how both predefined and custom DLP configurations can be harnessed to align protection with your organization’s unique data ambit and compliance needs.

What Next?

Our advanced Antivirus and DLP solution is a pivotal part of our Cybersecurity product. Keep visiting our resources for more updates on such features, or learn how you can be among the first to experience comprehensive security with endpoint and data protection by reaching us at support@fatpipeinc.com.

08 Nov

Celebrate with Us: A Reaffirmed Commitment to Enhanced Network Performance & Security

Our striving for excellence drives us to push boundaries, explore new ideas, and pioneer creative solutions to fulfill the essential needs of our customers and industry. Our team has been focused on delivering exceptional experience showcasing the innovation we bring.

 Say Hi to our Fresh New Look!

Your go-to source for unique and innovative network transformations needs is FatPipe. Get inspired to discover our innovative solutions, and benefit from the value of our products and services. Here are the key highlights of our website:

  • Key FatPipe differentiators like reliability, redundancy, security, and speed are emphasized with well-written content and effective diagram conceptualization.
  • The site is designed to provide a structured and intuitive navigation experience, making it easy for visitors to find information about FatPipe’s services and solutions.
  • The design balances professional and inviting elements, creating a visual appeal that reflects FatPipe’s modern, technology-focused brand.
  • A sharper focus and refined brand identity, fresh illustration styles, and enhanced brand character bring FatPipe’s creativity and vision to life. We trust you love our new vibrant design just as we do.

We have taken our design to the next level. With a sharper focus and refined brand identity, we have endeavored on a new design layout, embraced fresh illustration styles, and enhanced our brand character to bring FatPipe’s creativity and vision to life. We trust you love our new vibrant design just as we do.

It’s not just about having an online presence; it’s about creating an engaging, seamless experience that reflects FatPipe’s values and strengthens our brand’s reliability. This belief is at the core of our work wherein we have brought best of the software-driven wide area network to our customers with continued innovation of key SD-WAN features. FatPipe MPSec, MPVPN, Smart DNS, and distinctive way of blockchain type of data transmission have helped multiple customers not only boost network availability but also drive business productivity to new levels.

As we take on this new mission, it is a reaffirmation of our commitment to enhancing our customers’ network performance with WAN-Edge, SD-WAN and NMS technologies. We have advanced security in our priority list. With this renewed focus and indeed a personal commitment, we welcome you to explore our new website. We would love your feedback as your insights help us consistently meet your expectations.

01 Jul

Enhancing Business Productivity with Application Aware Routing

Traditional network architectures, while efficient at routing packets, fall short in understanding the applications being transported and hence are unaware of business priorities. This hinders businesses from achieving optimal operations as there is no real-time application-based traffic routing. Modern networks, equipped with knowledge of the applications they carry, provide multiple benefits to businesses.

Advantage of Application Aware Routing for Modern Businesses  

  • Application Path Control (Steering): When a Data Center link for a major e-commerce company’s Order Booking Application is impaired while a high-value order is being placed, the order will fail to go through. Application-aware routing, a key function, makes real-time routing decisions, redirecting the order booking to a better link ensuring successful Business closure. This involves abstracting, pooling, and assigning the transport infrastructure to applications based on software-defined policies. Application Aware Routing, a major function of Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN), steers and priorities mission-critical traffic ensuring that critical applications like voice and video sessions remain free from jitter, latency, or packet loss

  • Application Quality of Service: Imagine a customer at a bank’s priority desk trying to open an account during busy morning hours. The bank operator struggles with slow Account opening application due to bandwidth in busy hour being consumed by other employees opening large email attachments etc. An application-aware network, with appropriate policies, guarantees express bandwidth to the account opening application, preventing business loss. FatPipe SD-WAN has one of the best Application QoS modules for helping businesses increase profitability.
  • Application Portability: Users should seek solutions enabling easy application deployment across the cloud, data centers, remote premises or disaster recovery sites. The solution should offer centralized management to allow configuration and policy updates to multiple sites from a single interface. When applications move, policies should be easily updated and propagated across the network. FatPipe SD-WAN provides this functionality through user-friendly, zero-touch central orchestrator templates for specific policy directives of each Business.
  • Application Reports: In a remote factory, an employee using most of the bandwidth for personal Google downloads hinders business work. SD-WAN provides granular application reports at the user and link levels, allowing network administrators to diagnose the problem. FatPipe SD-WAN offers deep analytics, including CxO dashboards and detailed reports on top talkers, hosts, applications, and data usage by each application with user segregation enabling high quality Network Performance Management.

In summary, FatPipe SD-WAN application-aware agile and adaptive solutions for Network transformation ensure seamless and high-quality user experiences for enhancing business productivity and profitability.

31 Mar

Network Connectivity and COVID-19

Network Connectivity and COVID-19

Yes, the COVID -19 virus has absolutely affected the global economy, and not in a good way.  It has also forced businesses, especially essential businesses, to be creative in the way they may not have expected even a few weeks ago.

Working from Home

Employees working from home is not necessarily new, but the number of employees working remotely has dramatically increased, thanks to the stay at home call from officials and business owners globally.   As a result, the demand for secure and most importantly, reliable connectivity, has never been more acute.   So how has the modern-day business adapted?   What are the essential needs for remote workers, and how does the WAN administrator of today deal with these significant changes?

Facts:   More than 25% of businesses have not updated their work from home security policies in the past 5 years.  Driven by the need for secure remote access, companies are scrambling to implement solutions that are robust, secure, and of course reliable. This dramatic increase in the need for remote secure and reliable connectivity has placed extraordinary demands on the carriers as well as network administrators, some of whom are also working from home.

“The spread of coronavirus and social distancing mandates have put many IT pros in a precarious, but necessary, position of having to quickly transition to a largely remote workforce”. (Jackie Crankshaw, Lifeboat Channel Chat, 03/27/2020).  “With more employees working from home, cybercriminals have more access points to exploit networks”

Hacking is always a present danger, but in today’s environment, the chances for breach of a network have significantly increased. Network administrators must be wary of the security issues they now face, and have to accommodate the changing business environment, especially as more workers are connecting from home offices.

Secure connections for remote workers

There are plenty of choices out there, and VPN connections are, for the most part, a logical way to go.   But what good is the VPN if the connection itself is less than reliable, or worse still, down.

The key to ensuring remote workers can do what they are asked to do and help keep businesses up and running is to have the data traffic be secure, and of course, reliable.

For example, Video conferencing and VoIP calls are bandwidth hogs, and with more and more remote workers using these methodologies to connect, the demand for reliability and continuity of call is paramount.

So how can businesses of today, with all the challenges of social distancing ensure their “connectivity” is reliable and secure?

Simply deploying a VPN is not the answer.   Without the ability to manage the links, or lines coming into the HQ data center, the VPN tunnels from all the remote workers will suffer from congestion and in some cases, the link may drop all together. This defeats the remote worker purpose.

The best possible way to ensure reliable connectivity is to enable software driven networking solutions to manage the connections.

FatPipe Networks have been developing and deploying software driven network solutions for well over 20 years, and have 13 seminal patents that enable customers to design, customize and manage how their data traffic is managed across the network.   This includes remote worker connectivity.

Road Warrior solutions from FatPipe Networks

In fact, FatPipe has had a remote worker solution for many years, FatPipe Road Warrior solutions, which give customers the ability to load balance the traffic across multiple links, as well as failover in a sub-second should a link degrade or fail completely.

The difference with FatPipe solutions is the seamless nature of how it works.  Just set it and watch how the traffic is automatically directed by the FatPipe software.   FatPipe Road Warrior solutions allow customers to enable as many VPN tunnels (Fatpipe has tested to over 9,000 simultaneous connections) as necessary, and use any link type, including copper, fiber, wireless (3G;4G;5G; LTE) and satellite to load balance and failover when the demand requires.

In today’s disrupted business environment, knowing your connectivity is reliable, secure and manageable is critical. FatPipe Networks has been in the market for over 20 years and has recently received a Gartner Peer Review rating of 4.9 out of 5, taking the top spot in recommendations from customers as a best of breed SD-WAN solution.

If you have employees working from home, students learning “on line”, citizens trying to get information from their local city council, or just want to be able to manage data traffic coming into the network, then FatPipe must be a solution worth exploring.

Call FatPipe Networks today – 801-683-5656 ask for sales.

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