Roy Zisapel on public health
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“More and more governments are using new mobile applications in order to track the spread of the coronavirus, to track locations of confirmed cases and people who do they meet; that is challenging the fine line between public health and individual privacy.”
On , Roy Zisapel, CEO President & Co-Founder at Radware, spoke about public health during Radware Exchange Live: Business Continuity in the face of crisis, Roy Zisapel opening on Radware.
About Roy Zisapel
In a 2021 presentation, Roy Zisapel described Radware’s focus on three areas: ensuring application availability, protecting data against cyber attacks, and securing cloud workloads. He stated that Radware had blocked close to 500,000 DDoS attacks and identified nearly six billion bot requests in real time. Zisapel attributed attacks to organized crime, nation-state actors, competitors, and activists, and noted that Radware’s solutions are resold by companies including Cisco and Check Point. In an April 2020 address, Zisapel discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on internet traffic and work patterns, observing a 40% traffic increase in the U.S. and doubled traffic in some European countries. He said that remote access had become the most critical IT resource and that organizations must ensure its availability and security. Zisapel also noted that governments were using mobile applications to track the spread of the coronavirus, which he described as challenging the balance between public health and individual privacy. He reported a rise in DDoS attacks and sophisticated bot traffic during the pandemic.