Cisco has warned of an active zero-day vulnerability in its router software that's being exploited in the wild and could allow a remote, authenticated attacker to carry out memory exhaustion attacks on an affected device. "An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending crafted IGMP traffic to an affected device," Cisco said in an advisory posted over the weekend."A … [Read more...] about Cisco Issues Warning Over IOS XR Zero-Day Flaw Being Targeted in the Wild
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Attribution: A Puzzle – Cisco Blogs
By Martin Lee, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura. The attribution of cyber attacks is hard. It requires collecting diverse intelligence, analyzing it and deciding who is responsible. Rarely does the evidence available to researchers reach a level of proof that would be acceptable in a court of law. Nevertheless, the private sector rises to the challenge to attempt to … [Read more...] about Attribution: A Puzzle – Cisco Blogs
Cisco Named a Leader in the 2020 Forrester Wave for Enterprise Firewalls
The firewall has long been foundational to any organization’s security posture. But the antiquated notion of a single network control point no longer works as our applications and data move to the cloud and our users are everywhere. Organizations are augmenting their traditional firewalls with a variety of physical and virtual appliances – some are embedded into the network, … [Read more...] about Cisco Named a Leader in the 2020 Forrester Wave for Enterprise Firewalls
SecureX threat response ecosystem – Cisco Blogs
A few months ago, Cisco Security announced the SecureX platform with two core capabilities: threat response and orchestration. In that announcement, we brought attention to nearly two dozen integrations with SecureX threat response, formerly Cisco Threat Response. With SecureX, you can accelerate threat hunting and incident response by seamlessly integrating SecureX threat … [Read more...] about SecureX threat response ecosystem – Cisco Blogs
What is application-first security? – Cisco Blogs
Securing applications is the #1 area to invest for your future. Your applications run your digital business. It is protecting the world’s economy. It is securing our family businesses, schools, corporations, our means of daily activities. So why hadn’t I heard of what is application security before 6 months ago? I began to learn about application-first security as the world … [Read more...] about What is application-first security? – Cisco Blogs
Cisco Networking Academy is Helping Close the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Authored by Swati Handa, Global Cybersecurity Strategy Manager, Cisco This week in #EducationNow, join one of our cybersecurity experts to learn how Cisco Networking Academy is answering the call to cybersecurity education in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. To say we live in vastly different times than we did six months ago is an understatement. COVID-19 has brought a … [Read more...] about Cisco Networking Academy is Helping Close the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Cisco SecureX and the Power of Teamwork
A good security platform should foster collaboration and accelerate threat response Over the past couple of months, with all the upheaval we have witnessed, one topic has remained top of mind for most of us: the need to connect people in new ways to foster communication and teamwork as we grapple with our new, evolving reality. In that spirit, we proudly launched our new … [Read more...] about Cisco SecureX and the Power of Teamwork
CISOs share their stories – Cisco Blogs
As we’re about to release our tenth episode of the Security Stories podcast, I thought I’d reflect back some of the amazing stories we’ve heard so far. I’ll be perfectly honest: I wasn’t sure how the podcast was going to turn out at the beginning. I simply went into it with a passionate belief that hearing other people’s experiences is one of the best ways to … [Read more...] about CISOs share their stories – Cisco Blogs
Cisco Secure Cloud Architecture for Azure
Workloads and applications are moving from a traditional data center to the public cloud as the public cloud provides an app-centric environment. Microsoft Azure offers critical features for application agility, faster deployment, scalability, and high availability using native cloud features. Microsoft Azure recommends tiered architecture for web applications, as this … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Cloud Architecture for Azure
Cisco named a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for NDR
Gartner has published their 2020 Market Guide for Network Detection and Response (NDR) where Cisco has been named a representative vendor. NDR is even more relevant today with the growing network complexity and the evolving attacks. Despite investing a lot in security tools, the reality is that threats are able to get through. So how do you know that your digital enterprise is … [Read more...] about Cisco named a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for NDR